Hyannis is the Cape's downtown. The ferries to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard leave from the harbor, the hospital and the airport are here, and the year-round population is the largest of any village on the peninsula. The housing is a mix that goes with that: 1800s houses near Main Street, 1920s and 1930s cottages in the West End, dense postwar ranches on slabs north and south of Route 28, and apartment and condominium buildings that were motels before they were converted.
The harbor is the problem. Lewis Bay and Hyannis Harbor sit at the south end of the village, and the streets around Ocean Street, Sea Street, and Kalmus Beach flood on a storm tide. The January 4, 2018 nor'easter closed coastal roads across Yarmouth and Barnstable and put water into the low streets around the harbor. In winter, the Christmas 2022 cold snap and the February 2023 arctic blast burst pipes in vacant units across town.
We connect Hyannis homeowners and unit owners with an independent local water damage provider by phone. You describe the problem, and the provider decides what to look at first.
Salt water in a first floor or a ground-level unit near the harbor is flood cleanup. A burst line in a converted motel unit that soaked the floor and the unit below needs water extraction first, then a meter on every wall it touched, and the association needs written notice the same day. A closed-up cottage in the West End that froze in January is frozen pipe cleanup.
Hyannis is a village of the Town of Barnstable, and rebuild permits come from the town's building division at the Hyannis town hall. The village is also home to Cape Cod Hospital, run by Cape Cod Healthcare, on the harbor side of downtown, which is where a homeowner goes when a fall on a wet floor is the first injury of the loss.
Call (508) 419-9161 now and tell us what you see. A local water damage provider serving Hyannis takes it from there.
Standing water pumped out of a cottage, ranch, or motel room, then the first meter readings to see how far it traveled.
Air movers and dehumidifiers run by the readings until subfloor, framing, and plaster come back to their dry target in damp salt air.
Bay water, storm surge, and street runoff pumped out after a nor'easter, with soaked material removed and the rest dried.
Cleanup after a supply line froze and split in a second home or an unheated wall, then drying what the thaw soaked for days.
Standing water pumped from under a Cape or cottage on a high water table, then joists and subfloor checked and dried.
Wet insulation, ceilings, and walls dried out after wind-driven rain, an ice dam, or lifted shingles let a storm in.
A Mid-Cape basement pumped out after seepage, a sump failure, or a burst pipe, with finished walls and flooring metered and dried.
Furniture, rugs, papers, and keepsakes from a wet home sorted, dried, cleaned, and listed so you know what was saved.