Medfield was set off from Dedham in 1651, and its center along Main Street and North Street is one of the better-preserved 1700s and 1800s villages in the county, with the Peak House of 1711 still standing after the town was burned in King Philip's War. The Charles River forms the whole western edge, and the Medfield State Hospital campus sat on the bluff above it from 1896 to 2003. The housing beyond the center is 1950s capes and ranches, 1960s and 1970s colonials, and 1980s and 1990s subdivisions with finished basements on the higher ground toward Dover and Walpole.
The river meadows below the hospital are the flood plain for the whole upper Charles, and they are supposed to fill. The trouble comes when the water table under the nearby neighborhoods rises with them. March 2010 put groundwater into basements along the river side of town for weeks, and the low streets near Vine Lake and the Stop River see it in smaller doses most springs. Medfield is on town wells and mostly septic.
We connect Medfield homeowners by phone with an independent local water damage provider. The provider looks at the house and sets the scope.
A finished basement that took groundwater through the slab in a wet spring is a basement flooding cleanup job. A 1950s cape whose sump pit overflowed when the power went out is sump pump failure cleanup. A supply line that pinholed inside a wall of a 1700s house that has been replumbed for two centuries is a job for leak detection first.
The Trustees' Rocky Woods covers 491 acres and five ponds on Hartford Street, on the high ground that drains down toward the river and the neighborhoods below it. Rebuild permits after a water loss go through the Building Department at Town House on North Street, and the Water and Sewer Division can tell you whether your street is on town water.
Call (508) 570-0957 now and tell us what you see. We connect you with a local water damage provider serving Medfield.
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.