Water Damage Restoration in South Hampton, NH

South Hampton has about 800 people, a town hall, a church, and some of the oldest houses in the state. The town was set off in 1742 along the Massachusetts line, and the farmhouses on Main Avenue, Hilldale Avenue, and Route 107A date from the 1700s and early 1800s, with fieldstone cellars, plaster walls, wide pine floors, and plumbing that was run through the house in pieces over two centuries. Newer colonials from the 1980s and 1990s fill in the back roads, on wells and septic.

The Powwow River runs along the west side of town toward the Merrimack, and its meadows flood every spring. The houses mostly sit above the river on glacial hills, so the water that reaches a South Hampton basement comes from the ground, not the stream. A fieldstone cellar lets groundwater through the joints every March and April, and it did so on a larger scale in the Mother's Day storm of May 2006 and the April 2007 nor'easter. In winter the old houses have pipes in outside walls and under unheated ells, and a night like February 3, 2023 splits them.

We connect South Hampton homeowners by phone with an independent local water damage provider. The provider looks at the house and sets the scope.

South Hampton water damage, in a 250-year-old cellar

A fieldstone cellar with water across the floor is a basement flooding cleanup, and the goal is to get water off the floor and dry the framing above the sill, since the stones will never seal. A pipe that split in the unheated ell is a frozen pipe cleanup. Wide pine floors that cupped under a leak are a hardwood floor drying job that takes patience and a meter.

Permits and a cellar-corner shutoff in South Hampton

Rebuild permits go through the building inspector at the Town of South Hampton. There is no public water here. The shutoff is the well pump breaker and the pressure tank valve, often in a corner of the cellar.

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