Water Damage Restoration in Little Compton, RI

Little Compton is the farm town in the southeast corner of Rhode Island, between the Sakonnet River, the Atlantic, and the Massachusetts line, with about 3,600 year-round residents and a good many more in summer. The Commons at its center is ringed by 1700s and early 1800s houses, and the roads that run out from it pass farmhouses of the same age behind miles of stone walls, along with summer houses from the 1890s through the 1920s near the water and postwar houses scattered between.

There is no town water and no town sewer. Every house runs on a well and a septic system, the cellars are fieldstone, and the plumbing has been patched by five generations. The shore took the full force of the 1938 hurricane, which wiped out the cottages at Sakonnet Point, and Carol in 1954 and Bob in 1991 followed. Inland, the problem is groundwater through the stone in spring and pipes freezing in houses that were built for summer.

This site puts Little Compton homeowners and caretakers through by phone to an independent local water damage provider who makes the drive.

Little Compton water damage on a farm road behind a stone wall

Groundwater through a fieldstone cellar wall is a stone cellar flooding cleanup. A pipe that froze in a summer house nobody checked until March is a frozen pipe cleanup. Sea water in a house near the shore is a storm surge and coastal flood cleanup.

The town office on the Commons and the people who keep its history

Rebuild permits go through the Town of Little Compton, whose offices sit on the Commons, and the building official there knows the old houses by name. The Little Compton Historical Society keeps the photographs of Sakonnet Point before and after 1938 that show what the sea does here once a generation.

Call (401) 560-5802 and say how long the house sat empty and whether the cellar is stone. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Little Compton.