Conway is the town at the bottom of the Mount Washington Valley, and it holds Conway Village, North Conway, Center Conway, Redstone, and Kearsarge in one municipality of about 10,000 year-round residents and many more in ski season. Conway Village, around the covered bridges on the Saco and Swift Rivers, is 1800s and early 1900s houses on fieldstone cellars. North Conway is the resort strip and the condominium developments of the 1970s and 1980s. Between them are 1960s ranches, 1990s capes, and camps along Conway Lake.
The Saco River is the story. The gauge near Conway crested at 17.71 feet on December 18, 2023, the second-highest level on record, after more than six inches of rain fell on a snowpack and record warmth melted it in a day. Residents along the river were rescued by helicopter, and basements along the Saco and the Swift filled to the joists. Tropical Storm Irene in August 2011 and the October 2017 wind and rain storm had put the river over its banks before that. The condos have a separate problem: a unit that freezes on a Tuesday when the owner is in Boston, and a pipe that runs into the unit below until Friday.
We connect Conway homeowners by phone with an independent local water damage provider. The provider looks at the house and explains what it needs.
A cellar that took Saco water is a basement flooding cleanup, handled as outside water with silt and contamination in mind. A ski condo with a frozen pipe that ran into the unit below is a frozen pipe cleanup, and the association needs to be told in writing the same day. A village house with an inch of water across the first floor after a burst line is a water extraction job first and a drying job after.
Rebuilds that touch framing, plumbing, or wiring go through the building department at the Town of Conway on Main Street in Conway Village. Conway Village and North Conway are served by separate village water precincts, and each can shut off service at the street. Outlying homes are on wells.
Call (603) 665-0909 and tell us what you see. We connect you with a local water damage provider serving Conway.
Standing water pumped out of a basement, kitchen, or laundry room, then the first meter readings to see how far it traveled.
Air movers and dehumidifiers run by the readings until subfloor, framing, and drywall come back to their dry target.
Water pumped out of a finished or unfinished basement, wet walls and flooring opened where needed, and the space dried from the slab up.
Cleanup after a pipe froze and split in an outside wall, attic, or empty camp, then drying what the thaw soaked.
The rooms, ceilings, and floors a failed supply line reached, pumped out and dried once the water is shut off.
A basement that filled when the pump quit in a storm or an outage, pumped out and dried before the walls hold the damp.
A failed tank in a basement or utility closet and the flooring, drywall, and stored belongings it soaked.
Cupped oak or pine metered and dried with floor mats before anyone decides the boards have to come out.