Pick Your Town
Laconia
Laconia's basements run the full range, because its housing does. Mill-era houses in Lakeport and downtown sit on fieldstone. The 1960s and 70s…
Gilford
Gilford runs from the Winnipesaukee shore up the flank of the Belknaps, and basements at the two ends have opposite problems. Down on the water, the…
Meredith
Meredith holds three distinct basement populations: village houses on nineteenth-century fieldstone, Neck properties that were seasonal camps on…
Wolfeboro
Wolfeboro has the oldest foundations we work on. Village houses two centuries old sit on dry-laid fieldstone; the lakefront estates have basements…
Moultonborough
Moultonborough's enormous shoreline means a large number of properties sit close to the water table, and a high proportion of them are seasonal…
Alton
Alton Bay's dense cottage frontage sits about as close to the water table as anything in the region, and a large share of those buildings were…
Gilmanton
Gilmanton is farm country with a high concentration of genuine antique cellars — dry-laid fieldstone under capes and farmhouses that have been…
Belmont
Belmont's housing is dominated by the 1970s through 1990s subdivision era, and that means a large population of poured and block foundations now…
Tilton
Tilton's village sits along the Winnipesaukee River with a remarkable amount of nineteenth-century architecture for its size, and the river…
Northfield
Northfield runs from the river corridor up into hill country toward Canterbury and Sanbornton, and its basement problems divide along the same line:…
Franklin
Franklin is a mill city where two rivers meet, and it has the densest concentration of nineteenth-century multi-family housing in the region. Those…
Sanbornton
Sanbornton is hill country with a strong stock of antique farmhouses, and its water problems come almost entirely from the slopes rather than from…
Center Harbor
Center Harbor is compact, largely seasonal along the shoreline, and sits where Winnipesaukee meets the road to Squam. Its basement work clusters at…
Holderness
Holderness is Squam — wooded, rocky, and full of long-held family camps. A great many of those buildings sit on crawl spaces or piers, and the ones…
Ashland
Ashland is a compact village on the Squam River with a mill history and dense nineteenth-century housing, most of it on stone foundations in a river…
Bristol
Bristol sits at the foot of Newfound with steep ground rising from much of the shoreline, and steep ground means one thing above all for basements:…
New Hampton
New Hampton is rural and spread along the Pemigewasset, with a housing stock weighted toward antique capes, farmhouses and later rural building.…
Plymouth
Plymouth is a college town with a large rental stock, older village housing, and rural property out toward Campton. Its basement problems are shaped…
Tuftonboro
Tuftonboro is one of the most seasonal towns on the lake and one of the least densely developed. A large share of its buildings are camps, many on…
Barnstead
Barnstead spreads from the Suncook Lakes across rural country toward Pittsfield and Gilmanton, mixing antique farmhouse cellars with lake-camp crawl…