Water Damage Restoration in Richfield, MN

Richfield was incorporated in 1908 and grew from 17,500 people in 1950 to 42,500 in 1960 as farmland was sold off for houses for returning veterans, so nearly every single-family house in the city is a 1950s rambler or Cape Cod on a fifty-foot lot. The city sits at about 840 feet, flat, between the airport and Minneapolis, with about 37,000 people today.

Seventy-year-old ramblers have seventy-year-old basements: block walls, a floor drain, a furnace room with the original galvanized supply lines, and a bathroom added in the basement sometime in the 1970s by whoever owned the house then.

This site puts Richfield homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider. The provider meters the basement before writing anything down.

Richfield water damage in a 1950s rambler

A basement that took water up the floor drain in a hard rain is a basement flooding cleanup, and drain water is handled as contaminated. A galvanized line that split behind the kitchen wall during a cold snap is a frozen pipe cleanup. A basement that stays damp all summer with nothing leaking is often a dehumidifier installation after the walls meter dry.

Flat ground and a nature center in the middle of it

Richfield is flat enough that grading does not save anyone; water here is about old pipes and storm sewers that fill. Wood Lake Nature Center, 150 acres of marsh and boardwalk opened in 1971, sits in the middle of the city and is where a lot of the neighborhood storm water ends up. Richfield is Hennepin County, so rebuild permits go through the city's inspections desk.

Call (651) 433-7589 and say whether the water came up the drain. An independent local water damage provider serving Richfield takes the call.