Water Damage Restoration in Tiverton Four Corners, RI

Tiverton Four Corners is the historic village where Main Road meets East Road in the southern half of Tiverton, a crossroads of 1700s and early 1800s houses, a meeting house, stone walls, and farm fields running down to Nonquit Pond and the Sakonnet River. The Chace-Cory House at the corner dates to about 1730. Most houses in the village and on the farm roads around it are colonial or Federal, on fieldstone cellars, with additions from every century since.

These are dry-laid and lime-mortared cellars under houses with wide board floors and plaster on lath, and they take groundwater through the joints on every wet spring. The village sits on a ridge, so the water comes from above rather than from the sea, but the wind off the river reaches the old roofs, and a pipe in an uninsulated wall freezes on the first hard week in January. Nonquit Pond just below the village is one of the reservoirs that supplies Newport Water.

This site puts Four Corners homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider who has worked in a 1730 cellar before.

Tiverton Four Corners water damage under a house from the 1700s

Groundwater on the cellar floor every spring is a stone cellar flooding cleanup, and the crew meters the sill and the joists overhead. A supply line that froze in a wall with nothing behind the plaster is a frozen pipe cleanup. Drying old timber and plaster is structural drying against readings taken from the same materials.

The society that keeps the house at the corner

The Tiverton Historical Society maintains the Chace-Cory House at 3908 Main Road and knows the village's houses one by one, which is useful when a wall comes open and nobody is sure what is behind it. Rebuild permits go through Tiverton's building office in the north end of town.

Call (401) 560-5802 and say how old the house is and whether the cellar walls are stone. An independent local water damage provider serving Tiverton Four Corners takes it from there.