Fascia, soffits, sills, door jambs and deck boards cut out and rebuilt with sound wood, from our office on South Andrews Avenue. Priced in writing before we start.
BBBAccredited BusinessKaminskiy Care and Repair rebuilds rotted and termite-eaten wood on Fort Lauderdale homes from an office downtown on South Andrews Avenue: the fascia and soffit boards behind a gutter that overflows every afternoon in the wet season, the sills and door jambs on the salt-air side east of Federal Highway, the clapboard on a Sailboat Bend cottage, the dock steps and deck boards on the canal lots. Each piece is cut back to sound wood, rebuilt, primed on every face and painted to match, and the water path that caused it is closed. A licensed pest company treats the termites and writes the report; the carpentry after is ours, priced in writing before anything starts.
Eight repairs, one crew, priced in writing before we start.
Eight months of humidity, a daily summer rain, salt in the air off the Intracoastal and two kinds of subterranean termite that live nowhere else together: Fort Lauderdale wood does not rot the way wood does up north. It stays wet. We open it up, cut to clean wood, rebuild, prime, paint and fix the drip that started it.
AFTERBEFORE
Fascia & Eaves
Window Sills
Door Jambs & Casings
Trim & Siding
Termite Damage Rebuilds
Deck Boards & Railings
Stairs & Posts
Primed, Painted & SealedIn Fort Lauderdale a soft board in October is a rotten one by June. A Kaminskiy-certified technician prices most fascia, soffit, sill and jamb repairs on the call, in writing, from the office on South Andrews Avenue; a deck, a dock or a bigger rebuild gets a look first and a written scope.
We answer in under three rings and get you priced and scheduled in minutes.
A clear, written quote with upfront pricing. You approve before work begins.
Kaminskiy-certified pros finish the job with a workmanship warranty.
Every rot and termite damage repair carries our one-year workmanship warranty, in writing, and is done by a Kaminskiy-certified, background checked technician.
Water that never leaves. From May to October it rains most afternoons, the humidity sits near the dew point all night, and the wood on a Fort Lauderdale house never fully dries. Fascia and soffits behind a clogged gutter stay wet for weeks, a jamb bottom at a splashing walkway stays wet all summer, and east of Federal Highway the salt air eats the paint film that was keeping the water out. Add the fungus that lives in that wet wood and a termite that finds it, and a small soft spot becomes a rebuild.
Broward and Miami-Dade are the only counties in the country where the Formosan and the Asian subterranean termite are both established, and they swarm at dusk in spring and early summer. Both come up from the ground in mud tubes and pack carton into the wood they hollow. The West Indian drywood termite needs no soil at all and leaves hard six-sided pellets under a pinhole in a door frame or a soffit. A licensed pest company identifies and treats whichever it is; we rebuild the wood after, in that order.
Filler over rotted fascia lasts until the next wet season and then lets go with the paint. We cut the board back until the probe stops sinking, square the cut, splice or replace with the same profile, back-prime the new piece, caulk the joint and paint to match. Then the gutter end, the drip edge or the sprinkler that fed it gets fixed, so the repair is the last one.
Clean the gutters before the rainy season starts and again after the first storm. Aim the irrigation away from jambs and siding. Keep mulch and soil below the stucco line and off the wood. Repaint the ocean side before the paint fails, not after. And walk the fascia with a screwdriver each spring: pressing the wood finds rot a year before the paint shows it.
Concrete-block homes from the 1940s to the 1960s on the canals, with wood fascia, soffits, sills and door frames taking the salt air and the afternoon rain. The paint goes first on the water side, then the sills and the jambs, then the fascia behind the gutters. On the canal lots the dock steps and deck boards go soft at the ends. We rebuild each piece to shed water, seal the end grain and match the trim.
The frame cottages and early block houses near the river, some in the historic district, with wood siding, wood-framed windows and porches. Rot starts at the bottom courses of siding, the porch posts and the window sills, and drywood termites take the old door frames. We splice new wood into old, match the lap and the reveal, and handle the in-kind paperwork where the district needs it.
Ranch homes from the 1950s through the 1980s, many on lake and canal lots and many in associations. Fascia and soffits behind long gutter runs, patio cover beams, garage door jambs on the slab and deck boards by the water go soft. We rebuild the boards, match the association color and get the sprinkler off the house.
A fascia board, a sill or a trim piece is priced on the call, in writing. A bigger rebuild gets a look first and a written price before anything starts.
We cut back to sound wood and probe how far the rot really goes. If it runs further than the photo showed, you hear it before we go further, with the price.
New wood primed on all sides, caulked, painted to match, and the water path that caused it fixed: the drip edge, the flashing, the gutter end, the sprinkler.
The work area is cleaned before we leave, and every rot repair carries our one-year workmanship warranty.
Fort Lauderdale builds to the Florida Building Code with the Broward amendments, which let general maintenance and repairs under a set cost go ahead without a permit, as the Building Official reads it: a fascia board, a soffit section, a sill or a jamb is that kind of work. The 2026 state exemption for small single-family projects exists too, but the city decides it on a written request, never in a flood zone and never for windows or structure, so we do not promise it. Rot that has reached a rafter tail, a header or a beam is a permit and an engineer, and we say so before anyone opens a wall.
A Fort Lauderdale sale usually comes with a wood-destroying organism inspection report on the state form, written by a licensed pest control company: live termites or beetles, the evidence of them, and the visible damage, with a line saying it is not a structural report. The pest company treats what is live. We rebuild the damaged fascia, trim, sills, door frames and deck boards on that list, and the inspector comes back to look when the buyer or the lender asks. Send us the report and the address and the repairs come back priced from it.
In Sailboat Bend and the Himmarshee district, work that changes the look of a designated house needs a certificate of appropriateness, while general maintenance, repair and in-kind replacement can be reviewed by the historic preservation planner without a board hearing, which is what a matched rot repair is. On the beach and along the Intracoastal, a condo building of three stories or more carries the state milestone inspection: the rotted railings, soffits, trim and stairs are our lane, the structural report is the engineer. And on a parcel in a flood zone, a big repair can trigger the flood rules, which we flag on the call.
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Call 954-787-3186The office is on South Andrews Avenue, so a technician is close. Most fascia, soffit, sill and jamb repairs are priced on the first call and scheduled within days. A deck, a dock or a run of siding is looked at first, and the scope and the price are in writing before anything starts.
Yes, after the pest company has treated. We cut out the eaten fascia, soffits, door frames, trim and the framing we can reach, rebuild it and paint it. The treatment, the tenting and the report are the pest company; the carpentry is Kaminskiy.
Fascia, soffits, sills, jambs, siding and deck boards are carpentry, and that is what our technicians do all day. Kaminskiy is licensed, bonded and insured, so a splice into a rafter tail or a porch post is fine too. If the rot has reached a beam or a ledger, we tell you first and tell you who needs to look at it.
It comes down to how much wood comes out once the board is opened, how high up it is, and what finish it has to match. A soffit section at the front door and a two-story fascia run over a canal are different visits. Text us a photo and the price comes back in writing before anything is scheduled; if the rot runs further than the photo showed, you hear it before we go further.
Not for long. Paint over soft wood seals the water in, the fungus keeps working behind it, and the paint lifts again by the next wet season. We cut back to sound wood, rebuild, prime every face and then paint, so the paint has something solid to hold.
Usually not for a like-for-like repair under the Broward maintenance threshold, which covers most fascia, soffit, sill and jamb work. The state 2026 small-project exemption is a request the city decides, and it does not apply in a flood zone or to windows, so we do not count on it. Anything that reaches a beam, a header or a load-bearing wall takes a permit and an engineer, and we tell you on the call.
We repair the damaged wood on the report, fascia to door frames to deck boards, and the pest company treats what is live. The inspector re-inspects when the buyer or lender asks. Email the report with the address and we price the repairs from it.
All of Fort Lauderdale from South Andrews Avenue, including Victoria Park, Rio Vista, Las Olas Isles, Coral Ridge, Harbor Beach, Sailboat Bend, Tarpon River and Poinsettia Heights, plus Wilton Manors, Oakland Park, Plantation, Sunrise, Davie, Lauderhill, Tamarac, Pompano Beach and Hollywood. Call 954-787-3186 to confirm your address.
Tell us where the wood has gone soft, or text us a photo. We'll call you back with a price and a time. Calling is still the fastest way: 954-787-3186.
Priced in writing before we start. Kaminskiy-certified technicians. A one-year workmanship warranty on every job.
We answer in under three rings, 24/7.No price games. You get a clear written quote before any work begins, backed by our workmanship warranty.
