Towns We Cover Across Greater Boston
Cambridge and the surrounding Greater Boston area
Cities and towns we cover
Cambridge, MA
Almost half the homes in Cambridge were finished before 1940, so the water behind a musty smell is usually hiding inside plaster, wood lath and a rubble-stone cellar wall. An assessment tells you where it is getting in, what has to come out, and which city approvals stand in front of the work.
Coverage in Cambridge →Somerville, MA
More than half of Somerville's homes sit in two, three and four family buildings, so a damp cellar is rarely one household's problem and rarely one household's repair. We find the water source first and tell you which part of the building it belongs to.
Coverage in Somerville →Boston, MA
Nearly two thirds of Boston homes are rented, so the first useful question about a damp wall here is who holds the duty to deal with it. Boston is also the one place in this coverage area with real tidal flood claim history, which on the harbor edge puts salt water into the diagnosis.
Coverage in Boston →Brookline, MA
Damp in Brookline is a building fault far more often than a flood: 86 percent of the town's homes predate 1980 and its entire paid flood claim history is three claims outside the mapped high-risk zone. We find which system is leaking, and say who has to fix it when a management company sits in between.
Coverage in Brookline →Watertown, MA
A wet Watertown basement is nearly always rainwater rather than river water: all three of the town's paid flood claims came from rainfall or snowmelt accumulation outside the mapped flood zone. That is worth knowing, because rainwater has a route you can follow and a fix you can price.
Coverage in Watertown →Arlington, MA
Arlington is the one town here where the flood map really does predict the damage: 35 of its 43 paid flood claims sit inside the mapped high-risk zone and they arrive in clusters, 12 in 2017 and nine in the March 2010 nor'easter. What goes back in below grade matters as much as what comes out.
Coverage in Arlington →Belmont, MA
Belmont has almost no flood claim history at all, two claims and about $5,300 paid, so nobody here should be sold a flood story. What a Belmont job really turns on is age: with 87.3 percent of homes built before 1980, the lead and asbestos questions come before the first cut.
Coverage in Belmont →Medford, MA
Eight of the nine paid flood claims in Medford were on properties with a finished basement, and four of them came out of one March 2010 nor'easter. Finishing a basement in the Mystic floodplain is what turns a damp nuisance into a claim, and that decision is better made before the drywall goes back up.
Coverage in Medford →Everett, MA
Much of lower Everett is filled salt marsh over a river that was put underground in the 1960s, so a slab that stays damp there can be a site condition rather than a leak. Everett also has no paid flood insurance claim on record, which almost certainly means few policies rather than no water, so an empty claim file is not evidence of a dry basement.
Coverage in Everett →Newton, MA
Newton is the one place in this coverage area where paid flood claims regularly come from a stream or river actually rising: 15 of its 69 claims were watercourse overflow and they bunch into wet years. Near a brook, that means the watercourse gets checked and not just the gutters.
Coverage in Newton →Chelsea, MA
Three quarters of Chelsea households rent, so the first useful question about a damp wall here is which duty applies and who holds it. The 48-hour drying deadline, a written order with a compliance date and the remedies behind it are what actually get damp dealt with in this city.
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