Home Watch in Charlestown, RI
Tide & Timber looks after second and seasonal homes in Charlestown, RI while owners are away— for a season, a month, or a few weeks. We’re based in Stonington, a short drive away.
Salt Ponds and Beach Homes
Charlestown runs along Rhode Island’s south coast, with the ocean on one side and salt ponds such as Ninigret and Quonochontaug behind the barrier beaches. Many of its houses are beach homes used mostly in summer: about a third of the town’s housing, roughly 32 percent in 2010, is seasonal, mostly south of Route 1.
The town’s hazard plan finds that most of those seasonal homes sit in mapped flood hazard areas, and the breachways to the ponds can flood in storms. Between summer weekends we visit on a schedule you choose, check inside and out, and send photos, so you know the house is fine before you drive down. After a storm we look for sand or water at the house, then drainage and the roof.
How We Help
Seasonal Opening & Closing: We open and close the house for the season and report back with photos.
Home Watch Services: Scheduled visits, systems checks, and storm checks before and after a storm.
How It Works: From the first consultation to scheduled visits with photo reports.
FAQ: Answers on visits, reports, keys, and what happens in a storm.
Seasonal Checklists: Spring opening, winter closing, and before-a-storm checklists.
Questions About Home Watch in Charlestown
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Yes. We serve the whole town, including Quonochontaug, Charlestown Beach, Cross Mills, and the neighborhoods south of Route 1. Not sure about your road? Just ask.
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Yes. Between your stays we visit on a schedule you choose, check inside and out, and send a photo report, so you know the house is fine before you drive down.
Have another question? Browse the full FAQ.
Tide & Timber serves Southeastern CT and Southern RI, including Westerly, Wakefield, and Narragansett, RI.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: “A salt pond in Charlestown, RI” by Mark Siciliano, CC BY 3.0; “Breachway, Charlestown, Rhode Island. This week.” by Dennis Weeks, CC BY 4.0. Cropped and color-adjusted.
