This site helps connect property owners with independent local restoration providers. The provider you speak with is responsible for evaluating the property, explaining the scope, and representing its own credentials and services.
The number on this site rings through to an independent local provider that handles water losses in Bellingham, the Route 495 towns, and the South Shore. You say what you found. They ask where the water started, whether it is still coming in, and whether the basement is finished, and they take it from there. Any agreement, price, or warranty is between you and that provider.
Water losses here have a shape you do not see in a slab-on-grade market. Almost every house has a basement, most of those basements have been finished since the 1980s, and a good share of them sit on the high water table that comes with living along the Charles River. Norfolk County runs from Bellingham and Franklin in the west to Cohasset on the water, with the Plymouth County shore towns of Hingham, Hull, Scituate, and Marshfield just past its line, and a provider who works this county every week has seen the sump pump that quit in a March storm, the pipe that froze over Christmas weekend in an unheated garage, and the seawall that gave way on a January high tide.
The river itself is a large part of the story. The towns on the banks of the Charles, from Bellingham through Medway, Millis, Medfield, Dover, and Dedham, are the ones that call most often after a wet spring. The shore towns call after a nor'easter.
Providers represent their own licensing and insurance. In Massachusetts, a contractor who does work on an existing one- to four-family home generally needs to be registered as a Home Improvement Contractor, and the state's Home Improvement Contractor Program lets you look up a registration in about a minute. Work that touches framing or structure also calls for a Construction Supervisor License, which the same office can confirm. Ask for a certificate of insurance and a written scope before work starts. Those are reasonable requests and a good provider expects them.
Call (508) 570-0957 now and tell us what you see: where the water started, which rooms are wet, and whether it is still coming in. We take it from there.