Water Damage Restoration in Norwood, MA

Norwood split from Dedham in 1872 and grew into a factory town of ink, printing, and tanning along the Neponset River, and its housing shows it: tight streets of 1890s to 1920s two-families and bungalows around the center and South Norwood, 1940s and 1950s capes along Nahatan and Washington Streets, and 1960s and 1970s ranches and splits toward Westwood and Walpole. Most of those houses have full basements, and most of the basements have been finished.

Norwood knows floods by date. On June 28, 2020, a storm parked over the town and dropped three to four inches of rain in about ninety minutes, up to five and three-quarters for the day. Central Street went under, cars were submerged beneath the Nahatan Street railroad bridge, and Norwood Hospital took roughly ten feet of water against its lower loading dock, lost power, and had to carry more than 125 patients down dark stairwells. The National Weather Service called it only the third flash flood emergency in state history. Ten years earlier, in March 2010, the Neponset gauge in Norwood hit major flood stage and put the airport under water for days.

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

Norwood water damage, from the flash flood to the slow seep

A basement that took street water and floor drain backup in a cloudburst is a basement flooding cleanup job, and that water is handled as contaminated. A 1950s cape whose sump pump could not keep up is sump pump failure cleanup. A 1920s two-family with a mystery stain on the first-floor ceiling is a job for leak detection before anyone opens the plaster.

Norwood's own light department and the 2020 flood record

The Norwood Historical Society, founded in 1907 and housed in the F. Holland Day House on Day Street, keeps the record of the 2020 flood alongside the town's mill and printing history. Norwood runs its own light department, which matters when a storm knocks out the sump pump, and rebuild permits after a water loss go through the Building Department at Town Hall on Washington Street.

Call (508) 570-0957 now and tell us what you see. We connect you with a local water damage provider serving Norwood.