Water Damage Restoration in Bristol Ferry, RI
Bristol Ferry is the neighborhood at the northwest tip of Portsmouth where the Mount Hope Bridge lands on Aquidneck Island. For two centuries a ferry crossed to Bristol from here, until the bridge opened in 1929 and the landing became a quiet shore road. The houses along Bristol Ferry Road and Boyds Lane are a mix of 1800s farmhouses and ferry-era buildings on stone cellars, 1920s cottages near the water, and postwar houses on the lanes behind them.
Mount Hope Bay is open to the northwest here, and the 1938 and 1954 surges came straight across it. The shore-front houses take wind-driven rain and salt spray on every nor'easter, and the old cellars behind them take groundwater off the slope in spring. Bridge traffic aside, it is a neighborhood where a house can sit unwatched for weeks.
This site puts Bristol Ferry homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider.
Bristol Ferry water damage at the foot of the bridge
Bay water in a shore-front house is a storm surge and coastal flood cleanup. Groundwater through the stone of an 1800s cellar is a stone cellar flooding cleanup. Standing water on any floor begins with water extraction.
The school on the hill and the town desk down the road
Just south along the shore, Portsmouth Abbey School has kept a campus of stone and shingle buildings on Cory's Lane facing the bay since 1926, and its grounds crews deal with the same wind and salt the neighborhood does. Rebuild permits go through Portsmouth's building office in town.
Call (401) 560-5802 and say whether the water came off the bay or through the cellar wall. An independent local water damage provider serving Bristol Ferry takes it from there.
Services Available in Bristol Ferry
Water Extraction
Standing water pulled off wide pine boards, tile, brick, and dirt cellar floors on any level of an old Newport house, then the first moisture readings.
Structural Drying
Air movers and dehumidifiers run by daily readings until plaster, lath, old timber, and subfloor come back to dry numbers in salt air.
Storm Surge and Coastal Flood Cleanup
Harbor or bay water that came in during a nor'easter or hurricane pumped out, contaminated material removed, and the ground floor dried.
Stone Cellar Flooding Cleanup
Water pumped out of a fieldstone or rubble cellar, the source traced to a joint, a drain, or the tide, and the stone and framing above it dried.
Frozen Pipe Cleanup
Cleanup after a supply line froze in an uninsulated wall, a crawl space, or a shut-up summer house and split, then drying of what the thaw soaked.
Burst Pipe Water Damage
A failed supply line, corroded fitting, or split radiator line shut off, the water pulled out, and the floors and plaster below it dried.
Roof Leak and Ice Dam Water Damage
Wet attic insulation, plaster ceilings, and walls dried after a slate slipped, an ice dam backed up at the eave, or a nor'easter drove rain under the flashing.
Ceiling Water Damage Repair
A stained, sagging, or dropped plaster ceiling opened, the cavity above it dried, and the source found before anyone patches it.