About Brookline Water Damage Restoration

The town and its houses

Built around how water behaves in Brookline

Brookline is a town of about 63,000 people in Norfolk County, bordered by Boston on three sides and by Newton on the west. About half of its homes were built before 1940, from Victorian and Colonial Revival houses on Fisher, Aspinwall and Corey Hills to the brick apartment blocks along Beacon Street and the two- and three-family homes near Brookline Village.

That housing stock sets the list. Galvanized supply pipe and cast iron drain stacks run inside plaster walls, steam and hot-water radiators sit on hardwood floors, and many basements stand on fieldstone or brick foundations that let groundwater through after a long rain. Hard winters add frozen pipes and ice dams, and the Muddy River along the Boston border has flooded before. The walkthrough checks the ceiling below, the basement and the wall cavities, not just the room where the water showed up.

What gets handled

Water and sewage only: ice dam and roof leaks, frozen pipe bursts, flooded basements, radiator and boiler leaks, leaking pipes, ceiling leaks, sewage backups, storm water, water heater leaks, structural drying and commercial and multifamily losses.

Find us on Google

The drying standard

Dried to the IICRC S500 standard, room by room

IICRC S500 is the industry standard for structural drying. The tech who does the walkthrough maps moisture with pinless meters and thermal imaging before any equipment goes down, the extraction crew pulls standing water first, and air movers and LGR dehumidifiers are set to each room's evaporation load. The drying team logs readings every day and pulls equipment only when the wet materials read within 2 to 4 points of a dry reference, not when they look dry.