Water Damage & Mold Removal in Enfield, NS

Enfield straddles the HRM-East Hants boundary along Highway 102, and while it's often thought of as the last community before Halifax becomes rural, it has a real and established residential character. The Shubenacadie River runs near the community, and the floodplain history of that river is significant — it floods regularly in spring, and properties in the lower-lying areas near the river and its tributaries have dealt with basement flooding for generations. The community's newer Highway 102 corridor development sits higher and drains better, but the original village core along Highway 2 has older homes that predate modern drainage standards.

The proximity to Halifax Stanfield International Airport brings its own character — Enfield has grown as a commuter community, and newer subdivisions have gone up on land that was previously agricultural or forested. Agricultural soils compact differently than native glacial soils, and new construction on former farmland can produce drainage surprises that weren't in the engineer's models. We've seen that pattern across the corridor and know what it does to basements in the first decade of a home's life.