Water Damage Restoration in Cohasset, MA
Cohasset is nine square miles of granite, harbor, and salt marsh, and it belongs to Norfolk County even though Plymouth County surrounds it on the land side, a leftover from its days as part of Hingham. The village around the common and Cohasset Harbor holds 1700s and 1800s captains' houses on stone cellars. Jerusalem Road and Atlantic Avenue carry the summer estates of the early 1900s, many now year-round. The rest of the town is 1950s and 1960s capes and ranches near Route 3A and 1970s through 2000s colonials on the ledge toward Scituate and Hingham.
The ocean side of Cohasset floods on a nor'easter. Minot's Ledge Light, finished in 1860 after the first tower washed away with its keepers, stands off Sandy Beach as a reminder of what the water does here. On January 4, 2018, the record Boston Harbor tide put Atlantic Avenue, Border Street, and the streets around the harbor and Little Harbor under water, and the March 2018 storms did it again. Inland, the granite that makes up the town pushes groundwater sideways into basements after every thaw. Cohasset is on town water from Lily Pond and on septic across much of the town.
We connect Cohasset homeowners by phone with an independent local water damage provider. The provider looks at the house and sets the scope.
Cohasset water damage, from the ledge and from the sea
A basement on Atlantic Avenue or near the harbor that took salt water on a high tide is a basement flooding cleanup job, and porous materials it touched come out rather than dry. A colonial on the ledge whose foundation seeps at the uphill wall after a thaw needs structural drying once the water is out. A supply line that let go in a ceiling of a 1900s summer house is burst pipe water damage.
Rebuilding a basement inside the Cohasset flood zone
The Town of Cohasset runs its Water Department from Lily Pond and handles rebuild permits after a water loss through the Building Department at Town Hall on Highland Avenue. Ask the same office about the coastal flood zone before you rebuild a finished basement on the ocean side of Route 3A.
Call (508) 570-0957 now and tell us what you see. We connect you with a local water damage provider serving Cohasset.
Services Available in Cohasset
Water Extraction
Standing water pumped off a basement slab, a kitchen floor, or a finished lower level, then the first meter readings to see how far it spread.
Structural Drying
Air movers and dehumidifiers run by the readings until sill plates, subfloor, and drywall come back to their dry target.
Basement Flooding Cleanup
Groundwater, a failed pump, or a spring thaw put water in the basement. The crew pumps it out and dries the finished walls and floor.
Sump Pump Failure Cleanup
The pit overflowed during a storm or an outage. Water is extracted and the carpet, framing, and stored belongings are checked and dried.
Burst Pipe Water Damage
A supply line let go in a ceiling or wall. The rooms below and beside it are pumped out and dried once the water is shut off.
Frozen Pipe Cleanup
A pipe froze in a garage wall, an attic, or an unheated room and split. Cleanup covers everything the thaw soaked.
Washing Machine Overflow Cleanup
A hose failed or the drain backed up. Water in the laundry room, the hall, and the room below is extracted and dried.
Leak Detection
Finding a hidden leak behind a wall, under a slab, or in a well line before anyone opens the wrong wall.