Second-home owners out at Bay Creek are the ones calling in February, usually after a neighbor notices water under a door. A supply line lets go in an empty house and runs for weeks. That's not a plumbing repair anymore. Town has its own version: the old frame houses off Mason and Tazewell sit on crawlspaces and shallow piers with original cast iron, so an upstairs leak ends up as wet joists nobody's looking at.
Getting a truck to you is half the job. We come up US-13 across the Bridge-Tunnel, a 17.6-mile toll crossing that closes to high-profile vehicles when the wind sits up — the same wind pushing water into the harbor and Kings Creek.
Freeze breaks in empty houses, and old floors that hide water
I'm only in the house a few weekends a year. How do you get in?
Give us a door code, or whoever holds a key — property manager, cleaner, the neighbor watching the place. We photograph everything before we move furniture and update you by phone.
Do I need permits to put the house back together?
Rebuild and structural work goes through Northampton County. Extraction, drying and mold remediation generally don't. If your job crosses into rebuilding, we'll tell you what the county wants before anything gets closed up.