Water Damage Restoration in Revere, MA

Revere is a beach town that became a city. The three miles of shoreline from Point of Pines to Beachmont were summer-cottage country a century ago, and many of those cottages were winterized and built onto rather than replaced. Behind them, the Pines River and Saugus River marshes hold the tide, and the neighborhoods along them, Oak Island, Riverside, and Point of Pines, flood when a nor'easter and a high tide arrive together.

The Blizzard of 1978 destroyed homes along Revere Beach and put the ocean into the streets. The nor'easters of January 4 and March 2, 2018, did it again, with seawater in basements and garages across Beachmont and the Point. Inland, the 1900 to 1950 two-families and capes on the hills toward Malden have the standard fieldstone cellars and cold-wall plumbing, and the February 2023 freeze split pipes across the city.

Revere water damage, beach and marsh

Seawater in a basement after a storm is basement flooding cleanup, with the salt and whatever came in with the tide treated as contamination. A converted cottage with a pipe that froze in an uninsulated wall is frozen pipe cleanup. A finished basement where the pump gave out in a spring rain is sump pump failure cleanup.

After a coastal storm, the cleanup has a different shape than a burst pipe. Salt stays in the concrete and the framing after the water is gone, and anything porous the tide touched is treated as contaminated. Shut off power to the basement from a dry spot, photograph the water line and the debris, and do not run the furnace or the water heater if they stood in salt water until a technician has looked at them. Flood insurance through the national program is separate from a homeowner policy, and most Revere shore losses are handled under it.

Getting help fast in Revere

Water and sewer service runs through the City of Revere, whose public works department handles main breaks and sewer backups and whose building department issues rebuild permits. The shoreline itself is Revere Beach Reservation, the first public beach in the country when it opened in 1896, and the state agency that runs it maintains the seawall that stands between the ocean and the houses behind it.

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