Water Damage Restoration in West St. Paul, MN

West St. Paul was incorporated in 1889, which makes it one of the oldest cities in Dakota County and gives it the oldest housing: 1920s bungalows and 1940s Cape Cods on narrow lots near Robert Street, then a wave of 1950s and 1960s ramblers that pushed the population up two-thirds in a single decade. It sits at about 1,027 feet on the plateau south of downtown St. Paul, with about 20,600 people.

An old house means an old basement: block or even stone walls, a floor drain instead of a sump pit, cast-iron drain lines, and galvanized supply pipe that has been freezing along an exterior wall for eighty winters.

This site puts West St. Paul homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider. The provider meters the basement before anything is decided.

West St. Paul water damage under a 1950s rambler

Water that came up the floor drain during a hard rain is a basement flooding cleanup, and drain water is handled differently from a clean leak. A galvanized line that split behind the kitchen wall in January is a frozen pipe cleanup. A basement that stays damp all summer with nothing leaking is often a dehumidifier installation after the walls are metered.

Robert Street, the nature center, and the county park

The city is built out and mostly flat, so water here is more about old pipes than about grading. The Dodge Nature Center keeps its main preserve on the west side of town, and Thompson County Park wraps 57 acres of trails around Thompson Lake on the south edge. Rebuild permits go through the City of West St. Paul.

Call (651) 433-7589 and say what the basement looks like. An independent local water damage provider serving West St. Paul picks up from there.