IICRC CertifiedS500 water and S520 mold standards
Owner-Led CrewsThe owner meets your adjuster on site
Direct Insurance BillingNo upfront cost on covered work
BBB A+ CertifiedRanked #1 in Boston by Business Rate
A Restoration Company That Knows the Jerusalem Road Coast
Cohasset’s shoreline is rock, not sand. The homes along Jerusalem Road and Atlantic Avenue face the open ocean across granite ledge, with Minot’s Ledge Light offshore as a standing reminder of what the sea does here in a northeast gale. When a nor’easter runs surf against that ledge, spray and green water carry over the road, wind strips shingles and siding, and salt water finds its way into homes that were dry an hour earlier. The March 2018 nor’easters battered this stretch of coast hard enough to make national news, and smaller versions of the same storm arrive most winters.
Studio 24 Restoration Group handles the aftermath end to end. Storm surge cleanup, water extraction, structural drying, smoke and fire restoration, and mold remediation all run under one owner-led team, and the storm damage restoration side of the house covers board-up, tarping, and wind repairs in the same visit. Salt water gets treated as what it is, Category 3 water under the IICRC S500 standard, so contaminated porous materials come out, surfaces get flushed with fresh water, and wiring and fasteners are checked for the corrosion that salt keeps working long after the flood drains.
Ledge changes inland losses too. Much of Cohasset is built over shallow bedrock, which means rain and meltwater cannot soak away and instead sheet toward foundations and window wells. In practice, basements a mile from the ocean flood here for reasons that have nothing to do with tides, and our Cohasset water damage restoration crews trace those entry paths with the drying, not after it.
Cohasset Damage Restoration Across Three Kinds of Housing
Cohasset holds three distinct building generations, and each one fails differently. The antique homes clustered near the Common and along the older lanes carry plaster, timber framing, and stone foundations from the 1700s and 1800s. The ocean-facing houses on Jerusalem Road and Atlantic Avenue range from shingled early-1900s summer estates to modern rebuilds engineered for exposure. Then there are the mid-century capes, ranches, and colonials in Beechwood and the wooded neighborhoods off Route 3A, where finished basements, aging water heaters, and washing machine hoses generate the everyday losses that never make the news.
A competent damage restoration company has to move between those worlds in the same day. Drying an 1810 parlor is a salvage exercise in slow, controlled dehumidification. Drying a 1965 finished basement is a race to pull pad and base trim before growth starts. Additionally, the estate-scale homes near the water add contents value, custom finishes, and higher claim scrutiny to every loss. We staff and equip for all three, and the documentation standard never changes: metered readings, photographs, and a scope the adjuster can check line by line.
Fire, Smoke, and Water Restoration Around the Historic Village
The village around Cohasset Common is one of the oldest intact townscapes on the South Shore, and its antique homes deserve restoration that respects their materials. Plaster walls, wide-board floors, and original trim can often be dried and cleaned rather than demolished, but only when the response is fast and the drying is measured. We meter, document, and dry to targets, and we condemn material with readings rather than habit.
Fire in an antique village home is the hardest loss of all, because smoke penetrates old, porous surfaces quickly and suppression water soaks framing that has been dry for two centuries. Our fire damage restoration crews in Cohasset move on soot in the first hours, before acids etch finishes, and inventory contents for cleaning rather than disposal wherever the science allows. Afterward, our reconstruction team rebuilds with period-appropriate profiles, so the repair disappears into the house.
Moisture that lingers becomes mold, and Cohasset’s combination of coastal humidity and stone-walled basements feeds it. Our mold remediation service in Cohasset works under the IICRC S520 standard with containment, negative air, and HEPA filtration, and it always ends with the moisture source corrected, because remediation without source control is rental income for the mold.
Last updated August 2026.
Before the crew arrives, safety only:
- Stay clear of standing water near outlets, cords, or appliances
- Shut the main water valve if the source is a pipe and you can reach it safely
- Kill power to affected rooms at the panel only if the panel area is dry
- Photograph rooms before anything is moved
- Do not run fans over sewage or ocean floodwater
- Then call (781) 390-9855 and let the crew take it from there
What Cohasset Homes Face, Season by Season
Winter delivers the dramatic losses: seawall spray icing over Jerusalem Road, wind damage on exposed gables, and deep-freeze pipe bursts in homes where plumbing runs through old, uninsulated cavities. Spring follows with melt and rain that shallow ledge lots cannot absorb. Summer humidity settles into basements around Little Harbor and the village, and by October the ocean-facing side of town is checking roofs and seawalls before the cycle restarts.
Because those patterns repeat, we treat every Cohasset loss as a chance to end the repeat. Drying logs note how water entered, not just where it sat. Storm repairs get detailed for the adjuster with the wind and surge evidence separated, since coverage often turns on that distinction. Just as important: the same documentation habit, moisture maps, photographs, and an Xactimate scope prepared before the carrier’s inspection, is what keeps a Cohasset claim from being settled for less than the loss.
Timing is the other half of the answer. Dispatch runs 24/7, response to Cohasset typically lands within the hour, and equipment rides on the truck instead of following a day later. On coastal losses that head start decides what survives, because salt water keeps degrading materials every hour it sits, and mold needs only a day or two of wet framing to establish. Fast mitigation shrinks both the damage and the claim.
The result is a town we can serve properly at 2am in a February gale or on a quiet August morning when the dehumidifier finally catches up with the basement. One call, one team, mitigation through rebuild.
Serving All of Cohasset and the Coast Around It
From the Jerusalem Road shoreline to the Common, Beechwood, and the neighborhoods around Little Harbor, our restoration services reach every corner of town, 24 hours a day. Free inspections come with every call, and the estimate is built in Xactimate so your carrier sees the loss the way its own adjusters do. The same crews cover the adjacent South Shore towns:
Restoration Services We Handle in Cohasset
Every service below runs with its own crew, its own equipment, and its own Cohasset page. Start where your loss is, or call and we will scope the whole thing on one visit.
Water Damage Restoration in Cohasset
Extraction, structural drying, and documented moisture targets to IICRC S500.
Fire & Smoke Damage in Cohasset
Board-up, soot and residue removal, odor neutralization, and the rebuild.
Mold Remediation in Cohasset
Containment, HEPA removal, and post-remediation verification under IICRC S520.
Salt Water Does Not Wait for Business Hours
Neither do we. Free inspection, a documented scope before your adjuster arrives, and no upfront cost on covered work anywhere in Cohasset.