Water Damage Restoration in Bay Spring, RI

Bay Spring is the neighborhood in the southwest corner of Barrington along Bullock Cove and Narragansett Bay, next to the East Providence line at Riverside. It began as a summer colony in the 1890s and early 1900s, and the cottages on its small lots along Bay Spring Avenue and the side streets were converted to year-round houses through the middle of the century, with additions, dormers, and raised foundations added as families stayed.

The cove and the bay are close and the ground is low. Bay Spring is one of the Barrington neighborhoods that floods first on a storm tide, and the 1938 and 1954 surges came over it. The converted cottages carry plumbing in crawl spaces and outside walls that were added when the houses were winterized, and a January freeze finds it. The postwar houses on the streets behind take groundwater at the footing in a wet spring.

This site puts Bay Spring homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider.

Bay Spring water damage in a summer cottage that stayed for the winter

Bay water in the house is a storm surge and coastal flood cleanup. A pipe that froze in a crawl space or an outside wall is a frozen pipe cleanup. A wet basement or crawl space after a long rain starts with water extraction.

What to know before the rebuild starts

Barrington's town hall on County Road handles the permits, and much of Bay Spring sits in a mapped flood zone, which can affect how a substantial rebuild is allowed to proceed. Have the crew photograph the water line before removal starts, since the flood adjuster and the town will both ask for it.

Call (401) 560-5802 and say whether the water is salt and whether the house has a crawl space. An independent local water damage provider serving Bay Spring takes it from there.