Water Damage Restoration in Bristol, RI

Bristol is the town on the peninsula between Bristol Harbor and Mount Hope Bay, across the Mount Hope Bridge from Portsmouth, and about 22,500 people live here. The downtown along Hope Street and Thames Street holds Federal and Greek Revival houses from the 1780s through the 1840s, built on the shipping trade, with Victorian streets behind them, 1920s two-families from the mill years, and postwar neighborhoods running north toward Warren. Roger Williams University sits on the bay at the south end, and the Herreshoff yard built America's Cup boats on the harbor for sixty years.

The harbor faces west, and the big storms have come up it. In 1938 the water rose fifteen feet above normal, took the yacht club, and threw the Methodist church's bell into its own sanctuary. Carol in 1954 flooded the downtown again. The old houses downtown sit on stone and brick cellars a few feet above the harbor, and they take groundwater and tide from below and slate roof leaks from above.

This site puts Bristol homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider.

Bristol water damage in a Federal house a block from the harbor

Harbor water in a downtown cellar is a storm surge and coastal flood cleanup. Groundwater through the stone every spring is a stone cellar flooding cleanup. A leak under a slate roof onto a plaster ceiling is roof leak and ice dam water damage.

Town hall on Court Street and the campus on the bay

Rebuild permits go through the Town of Bristol, whose town hall at 10 Court Street is a block from the harbor and handles the historic district review as well. Roger Williams University holds the waterfront at the south end of town on Old Ferry Road, where the Bristol ferry once left for Portsmouth.

Call (401) 560-5802 and say whether the water is salt and how old the house is. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Bristol.