Water Damage Restoration in Fox Point, RI
Fox Point is the neighborhood at the tip of Providence's East Side, where the Providence and Seekonk rivers meet at India Point. It was the city's working waterfront and its Portuguese and Cape Verdean neighborhood for most of the twentieth century, and the houses along Wickenden, Brook, and Transit streets are 1800s Federal and Greek Revival cottages next to 1890s through 1920s triple-deckers, many now condominiums, on stone foundations with cellars a few feet above the water table.
This is the neighborhood the hurricane barrier was built for. The 1938 hurricane and Hurricane Carol on August 31, 1954, pushed the bay up the Providence River and put as much as eight feet of water in the low streets and downtown. The Fox Point Hurricane Barrier, built between 1961 and 1966 just off the neighborhood's western edge, closes its three gates against that now. What it does not stop is groundwater through a two-hundred-year-old stone wall in a wet spring, a combined sewer that backs up through a cellar floor drain in a downpour, or a third-floor bath in a condo that leaks into the unit below.
We connect Fox Point homeowners and condo owners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. You describe the problem; the provider decides what to look at first.
Fox Point water damage, in the oldest cellars in the city
A leak from the unit above is ceiling water damage repair for the owner below, and the condo documents decide who owns the ceiling and who owns the pipe. A floor drain that backed up in a storm is sewage cleanup. Groundwater in a stone cellar is basement flooding cleanup, and old plaster and old pine take a long time to dry.
Where to call in Fox Point
The Army Corps of Engineers runs the Fox Point Hurricane Protection Barrier and posts when it closes the gates. Rebuild permits go through the Providence Department of Inspection and Standards.
Call (401) 443-9638 now and tell us what you see. We connect you with a local water damage provider serving Fox Point.
Services Available in Fox Point
Water Extraction
Standing water pumped out of a basement, kitchen, or first floor, then the first meter readings to see how far it traveled.
Structural Drying
Air movers and dehumidifiers run by the readings until joists, subfloor, plaster, and drywall come back to their dry target.
Basement Flooding Cleanup
Water out of a stone or block basement after a sump failure, seepage, or a Pawtuxet River rise, then the walls and floor dried.
Sewage Cleanup
Contaminated water and the materials it touched removed after a sewer backup, floor-drain overflow, or failed septic system.
Burst Pipe Water Damage
The rooms, ceilings, and floors a failed supply line soaked, pumped out and dried once the water is shut off.
Frozen Pipe Cleanup
Cleanup after a pipe froze and split in an exterior wall, an unheated porch, or a basement, then drying what the thaw let loose.
Ceiling Water Damage Repair
A stained, sagging, or dripping plaster or drywall ceiling opened, dried, and made ready for repair after the leak above is stopped.
Dishwasher Leak Cleanup
Water under the dishwasher, the cabinet toe kicks, and the kitchen floor found, pulled out, and dried before the subfloor swells.