Water Damage Restoration in Newport, RI

Newport was settled in 1639 at the south end of Aquidneck Island, and it holds one of the largest concentrations of colonial houses in the country, layered under Victorian streets and the Gilded Age estates along Bellevue Avenue and Ocean Drive. About 25,000 people live here year round on a little under eight square miles, with the harbor on the west, Easton's Beach and the open Atlantic on the east and south, and the Navy on the north. The Pell Bridge has carried traffic in from Jamestown since 1969.

Most of the housing stands on rubble fieldstone with brick or dirt cellar floors, and much of the oldest of it sits within a few feet of the harbor. The 1938 hurricane put Thames Street under the bay, Carol did it again in 1954, and Sandy flooded downtown in 2012. Between the named storms, a nor'easter on a spring tide puts water on the Point and along Wellington Avenue most winters.

This site puts Newport homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider. The provider walks the cellar with a meter before anything is decided.

Newport water damage under a house that predates the Revolution

Harbor water in a cellar is a storm surge and coastal flood cleanup, and the crew treats it as contaminated from the first hour. Groundwater through the stone every spring is a stone cellar flooding cleanup. A pipe that split in an uninsulated wall in January is a frozen pipe cleanup.

The permit desk and the history behind every wall

Rebuild work that touches plumbing, wiring, or framing goes through City of Newport Building and Inspections, which runs a one-stop desk for permit review. If you want to know what your house looked like before the last three renovations, the Newport Historical Society keeps the maps, photographs, and deeds going back to the town's founding.

Call (401) 560-5802 and say whether the water is salt or fresh and which floor it is on. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Newport.