Water Damage Restoration in Ochre Point, RI

Ochre Point is the headland on Newport's east shore where The Breakers has faced the Atlantic since 1895 and where Ochre Court, finished in 1892, became the heart of the Salve Regina campus. The neighborhood between Bellevue Avenue and the Cliff Walk holds Gilded Age houses, their converted carriage houses and gate lodges, and a scattering of mid-century homes on the old estate lots, all of it on the most exposed stretch of shoreline in the city.

The east wind comes straight in off the ocean here with nothing to slow it. A nor'easter drives rain sideways under slates and through window heads that have held for a century, and the salt spray reaches the copper flashing every winter. Sandy on October 29, 2012 tore out sections of the Cliff Walk below these houses and closed it for nearly two years.

This site puts Ochre Point homeowners and associations through by phone to an independent local water damage provider.

Ochre Point water damage where the east wind meets an old roof

Wind-driven rain under a slate roof or through a failed valley is roof leak and ice dam water damage. The plaster ceiling it stains, and sometimes drops, is a ceiling water damage repair. A supply line that froze in an unheated wing of a house shut for the winter is a frozen pipe cleanup.

The university that keeps a Gilded Age campus dry

Salve Regina University has been maintaining Ochre Court and more than a dozen other estate buildings on the point since 1947, and the neighborhood's private houses share the same roofs, walls, and weather. Exterior repairs here go through the Historic District Commission before they start.

Call (401) 560-5802 and say where the water shows up and whether the roof is slate. An independent local water damage provider serving Ochre Point takes it from there.