Water Damage Restoration in Charlestown, MA

Charlestown is Boston's oldest neighborhood, settled in 1629 and burned to the ground by the British in 1775. What stands today is the town rebuilt after that: brick and wood rowhouses from 1800 through 1870 on the slopes of Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill, triple-deckers from the 1890s on the flats toward Sullivan Square, and converted buildings in the Navy Yard. The rowhouses share party walls and sit over brick cellars with plaster walls and cast-iron plumbing above.

The peninsula is bounded by the Mystic and Charles rivers, and the low ground near the Navy Yard and along the waterfront took seawater in the January 4, 2018 nor'easter. The combined sewers under the older streets back up into basement drains in a hard rain. Winter finds the pipes in the cold front walls of the rowhouses: the February 2023 freeze split lines from Monument Square to the Neck, and the snow of 2015 left ice dams on the flat roofs.

Charlestown water damage in a rowhouse

A rowhouse where a supply line froze in the front wall is frozen pipe cleanup, and the neighbor's side of the party wall gets metered too. A cellar that took water up the drain in a storm is sewage cleanup. A stained plaster ceiling under a top-floor bath is ceiling water damage repair once the source is stopped.

A Charlestown rowhouse shares walls on both sides, and a frozen pipe in one house can leave the neighbor's cavity wet too. Knock on both doors before the crew arrives and ask them to check their cellars. Most of these houses are condos now, and a leak on the top floor crosses several ownership lines on the way down. Photograph every unit that got wet, notify the association in writing the same day, and keep the plumber's note about what failed. The crew's moisture map of the whole stack is what the insurer will want.

Rebuilding a Charlestown rowhouse near the Monument

Water and sewer service comes from the Boston Water and Sewer Commission, and rebuild permits go through the city's Inspectional Services Department. The Bunker Hill Monument and the Navy Yard are part of Boston National Historical Park, and the streets around them fall in a historic district where exterior work is reviewed, though interior drying and plaster repair are not.

Call (857) 524-9927 now and tell us what you see. A local water damage provider serving Charlestown takes it from there.