Water Damage Restoration in Osterville, MA

Osterville is the summer-estate village on the south side of Barnstable. The big shingled houses of Wianno and the gated island of Oyster Harbors went up between the 1880s and the 1930s, and they sit on the edge of West Bay, North Bay, and Nantucket Sound. Around the village center are smaller Capes and ranches from the 1950s through the 1970s, and along Dowses Beach and East Bay are cottages that have been rebuilt more than once.

Water comes from three directions here. The bays flood the low estate lots on a storm tide, as they did in the Hurricane of 1938 and again in the nor'easter of January 4, 2018, which flooded the south shore from Falmouth to Chatham. Summer houses closed up for the winter freeze like any other, and a caretaker who comes weekly finds the water a week late. And the water table under the whole village is close to the surface, so the crawl spaces stay damp.

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

Osterville water damage in a house with a caretaker

A frozen line in a Wianno summer house that ran for a week is frozen pipe cleanup, and the crew scopes it around how long the water ran. Salt water in a ground floor or a boathouse after a storm tide is flood cleanup. The rugs, antiques, and paintings that fill these houses are handled as content restoration, with a written list of what went where.

Where to call in Osterville

Osterville is a village of the Town of Barnstable, and rebuild permits go through the town building division in Hyannis. The Osterville Village Library on Wianno Avenue is the village's meeting place and keeps a local history collection that covers the estate era and the storms that have come through it.

Call (508) 419-9161 now and tell us what you see. A local water damage provider serving Osterville takes it from there.