Cleaning and Restoration in Androscoggin County, Maine

The county has two pages: Lewiston and Auburn, the twin cities on either bank of the Androscoggin River. We also serve Lisbon, Sabattus, Turner, Poland and the other towns around them.

The river is why so many of our calls here start with water. In December 2023 the Androscoggin crested and flooded low parts of both cities, including Heritage Park in Lewiston and the Center Street businesses in Auburn. Flood water from a river carries mud and whatever the river picked up on the way, so we remove what cannot be saved and dry the rest, checking moisture levels as the job goes.

The buildings matter as much as the river. Roughly a third of Lewiston’s homes were built before 1940, and about half of them are in buildings with two or more units, many of them three- and four-unit houses. Auburn is similar in kind, with a large share of older houses and small multi-family buildings. When water or smoke reaches one apartment, it usually reaches the others, and we scope each job across the whole building.

Some of Lewiston’s big brick mills, such as the Bates Mill complex, are now partly apartments. Large open floors and shared stairwells let a loss spread quickly in buildings like that, so we plan the work by floor and by tenant. Half of Auburn’s homes heat with oil or kerosene, which is why puff-backs and soot turn up in our fire calls.

Parts of both cities still have combined storm and sewer pipes, and the two share a treatment plant. A storm that overloads the system can put sewage into a basement, and the cleanup follows the steps on our biohazard page. Everything we offer is available in both cities, and the Oxford County page covers the towns to the northwest.