Water Damage Restoration in Poppasquash, RI
Poppasquash is the peninsula that forms the west side of Bristol Harbor, reached by Poppasquash Road along a low neck from the north end of town. Colt State Park covers the northern half, and the southern half holds large houses on large lots facing the harbor on one side and Narragansett Bay on the other, from 1800s farmhouses and 1900s summer estates to newer houses built on the old estate grounds. Many stand empty for part of the year.
The neck is the weak point. The road in floods on a nor'easter tide, and the western shore takes the bay's wind and surge with nothing in front of it. The 1938 and 1954 surges came over this ground on their way into the harbor. The old houses have fieldstone cellars and slate or shingle roofs, and the distance from town means a leak in a shut-up house runs for a while before anyone sees it.
This site puts Poppasquash homeowners and caretakers through by phone to an independent local water damage provider.
Poppasquash water damage at the end of a road that floods
Bay water in a shore-front house is a storm surge and coastal flood cleanup. A pipe that froze in an estate house closed for the winter is a frozen pipe cleanup. Groundwater through an old cellar wall is a stone cellar flooding cleanup.
The park that shares the peninsula
Colt State Park covers 464 acres of the peninsula's north end with open lawns running down to the bay, and its shoreline shows plainly how far the water comes up on a storm tide. Rebuild permits go through Bristol's town hall on Court Street.
Call (401) 560-5802 and say how long the house was empty and whether the water is salt. An independent local water damage provider serving Poppasquash takes it from there.
Services Available in Poppasquash
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.