Water Damage Restoration in Fifth Ward, RI

The Fifth Ward is the neighborhood south of downtown Newport between lower Thames Street, the harbor, and Carroll Avenue, and it has been the city's Irish neighborhood since the 1800s. The houses are two- and three-family wood-frame buildings from the 1880s through the 1920s on stone or early brick foundations, packed tight on short blocks, with Wellington Avenue running along King Park and the harbor's edge. Much of the low ground toward the water was marsh and fill before it was streets.

Wellington Avenue is one of the first streets in Newport to go under on a nor'easter tide, and the city has buried flood gates along it. Harbor water ran through the Fifth Ward in 1938 and 1954, and it came back with Sandy in October 2012. The stacked apartments add the ordinary losses on top: a tenant's toilet supply upstairs is a landlord's kitchen ceiling down.

This site puts Fifth Ward owners and landlords through by phone to an independent local water damage provider who works two-families every week.

Fifth Ward water damage in a three-family a block from the harbor

Harbor water in the cellar or the first-floor apartment is a storm surge and coastal flood cleanup. A failed supply line in the upstairs unit is burst pipe water damage that usually includes the ceiling below. A brown, sagging plaster ceiling in the downstairs kitchen is a ceiling water damage repair.

The fort at the end of the harbor and the rules for rebuilding

Harrison Avenue runs from the Fifth Ward out to Fort Adams State Park, the granite fort at the mouth of the harbor that took the same 1938 and 1954 surges the neighborhood did. Rebuild work in a multi-family, including new wiring or plumbing after a flood, goes through the city's building desk, and a landlord is responsible for the permit.

Call (401) 560-5802 and say which unit is wet, whether the water is salt, and whether tenants are in the building. An independent local water damage provider serving the Fifth Ward takes it from there.