Tiverton runs along the east bank of the Sakonnet River from the Massachusetts line at Fall River south to Little Compton, and about 16,000 people live here across very different neighborhoods. North Tiverton is dense mill housing from the 1890s through the 1920s built for Fall River's textile workers, on stone and brick cellars. The middle of town is 1950s through 1990s houses on the hills above the river. The south is farms, stone walls, and 1700s houses around Tiverton Four Corners.
The river sets the water pattern. The Stone Bridge to Portsmouth was wrecked in the 1938 hurricane and never fully recovered before it closed in 1957, and the low ground along Riverside Drive and around Nanaquaket Pond still floods on a serious storm. Up on the hills, houses on ledge take groundwater through their cellar walls in a wet spring, and the older mill housing carries a century of patched plumbing.
This site puts Tiverton homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider who works both sides of the Sakonnet.
River water in a house along the shore is a storm surge and coastal flood cleanup. Groundwater through the stone of a mill house cellar is a stone cellar flooding cleanup. A corroded fitting in old plumbing is burst pipe water damage.
Rebuild permits go through the Town of Tiverton, which runs its own building office. The Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority operates the Sakonnet River Bridge that replaced the old span in 2012 and connects the town to Aquidneck Island, which is the road the crews take.
Call (401) 560-5802 and say which part of town the house is in and whether the cellar is stone. We put you through to an independent local water damage provider serving Tiverton.
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.
Air movers and dehumidifiers run by daily readings until plaster, lath, old timber, and subfloor come back to dry numbers in salt air.
Harbor or bay water that came in during a nor'easter or hurricane pumped out, contaminated material removed, and the ground floor dried.
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.
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.
A failed supply line, corroded fitting, or split radiator line shut off, the water pulled out, and the floors and plaster below it dried.
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.
A stained, sagging, or dropped plaster ceiling opened, the cavity above it dried, and the source found before anyone patches it.