Hull is a seven-mile peninsula with the Atlantic on one side and Hingham Bay on the other, and at its narrowest points the town is a few hundred feet of sand between the two. Nantasket Beach drew the summer crowds from the 1800s on, and the housing is what that left behind: 1900s to 1930s beach cottages on small lots that have been winterized one at a time, 1950s ranches and capes on the higher ground of Allerton Hill and Telegraph Hill, and multi-family houses along Nantasket Avenue that started as boarding houses.
Hull floods. The Blizzard of February 6 and 7, 1978, sent the ocean across the peninsula, destroyed homes along the beach, and cut the town off for days, and it is still the storm people here measure by. On January 4, 2018, the record tide put water in homes across the low sections, and the March 2018 storms came back for more. A Hull basement is often a crawl space or a shallow cellar a few feet above sea level, and the water table under it moves with the tide.
We connect Hull homeowners by phone with an independent local water damage provider. The provider looks at the house and sets the scope.
A cottage that took salt water over the sill on a storm tide is a basement flooding cleanup job, and everything porous the water touched comes out. A winterized cottage whose supply line froze under the floor during the February 2023 cold is frozen pipe cleanup. A shallow cellar that stays damp after every high tide needs structural drying, and the crew will tell you what can and cannot be finished down there.
The Hull Lifesaving Museum, founded in 1978 in the old Point Allerton lifesaving station, keeps the record of the wrecks and the storms, including the one that year that gave the museum its start. Rebuild permits after a water loss go through the Building Department at Town Hall on Atlantic Avenue, and the town's water comes through the Weir River system shared with Hingham.
Call (508) 570-0957 now and tell us what you see. We connect you with a local water damage provider serving Hull.
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.
Air movers and dehumidifiers run by the readings until sill plates, subfloor, and drywall come back to their dry target.
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.
The pit overflowed during a storm or an outage. Water is extracted and the carpet, framing, and stored belongings are checked and dried.
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.
A pipe froze in a garage wall, an attic, or an unheated room and split. Cleanup covers everything the thaw soaked.
A hose failed or the drain backed up. Water in the laundry room, the hall, and the room below is extracted and dried.
Finding a hidden leak behind a wall, under a slab, or in a well line before anyone opens the wrong wall.