Water Damage Restoration in Brentwood, NH

Brentwood is where Rockingham County keeps its courthouse, its jail, and its nursing home, along Route 125 on the north side of town, and where the Exeter River winds through the middle. The town was farmland with a handful of 1700s houses on fieldstone cellars until the 1990s, when the subdivisions came. Today most of the housing is colonials built between 1990 and 2010 on large wooded lots, plus several 55-and-over developments, all on wells and septic with full basements.

The Exeter River is the local flood story. It rose through the Mother's Day storm of May 2006 and the April 2007 nor'easter, and low houses along Middle Road and Route 111A took groundwater and river water in their basements both years. In a normal spring the river does not reach the houses, but the water table does, and the perimeter drains around those 1990s foundations feed a sump pit that runs from March into May. The old farmhouses have the other problem. A fieldstone cellar weeps every spring, and anything stored on its floor gets wet.

We connect Brentwood homeowners by phone with an independent local water damage provider. The provider looks at the house and explains what it needs.

Brentwood water damage, river ground and new basements

A finished basement in a 1990s colonial with an inch of groundwater across it is a basement flooding cleanup, and the crew wants to know whether the pump ran. The same basement after the pump quit in an outage is a sump pump failure cleanup. A farmhouse where the puddle is gone but the plaster and the sill still read wet is a structural drying job that runs for days.

Who issues the permit in Brentwood, and how to stop a well

Rebuilds that touch framing, plumbing, or wiring go through the building inspector at the Town of Brentwood. Brentwood has no public water. Shut the well pump off at the breaker if you cannot find the valve.

Call (603) 665-0909 and tell us what you see. We connect you with a local water damage provider serving Brentwood.