Water Damage, Mold and Restoration Companies in the Lowell Area

What Makes Lowell Different

Lowell grew up as a mill city where the Concord River meets the Merrimack, and both rivers still shape the risk here. The Merrimack flooded badly in the Mother’s Day storm of May 2006, when days of heavy rain pushed water into low neighborhoods up and down the valley. Homes on low ground near either river, or near the canals and brooks that feed them, should know their flood zone.

The city is full of triple deckers, brick mill buildings turned into apartments and small homes built long before 1978. Lead paint is common in older homes, and Massachusetts requires deleading in homes built before 1978 where young children live. Old plaster, boiler pipe wrap and floor tile may contain asbestos. Test before you tear anything out.

Winters are cold and snowy, with ice dams on older roofs and pipes that freeze in exterior walls. In spring, snowmelt raises groundwater, and stone and block basements seep. The suburbs around Lowell have many capes, colonials and split levels with basements that depend on a sump pump. Test it each spring and add a battery backup.