Wood siding, window frames, porch posts, fascia and soffit on the old bungalows cut out and rebuilt to match, with the price in writing first.
BBBAccredited BusinessLake Worth Beach has more wood houses than almost any city on this coast, and Kaminskiy Care and Repair rebuilds the wood on them: the clapboard and shingle siding on the 1920s bungalows, the wood window frames and sills, the porch posts and rails, the fascia and soffit behind a gutter that overflows every afternoon from June to October, the alley-side trim nobody looks at. Each piece is cut back to sound wood, matched to the original profile, primed on every face, painted and sealed, with the leak that fed it closed. A licensed pest company handles the termites; the carpentry is ours. The price is in writing before anything starts, from our West Palm Beach office.
Eight repairs, one crew, priced in writing before we start.
A hundred years of salt air off the lagoon, a wet season every year and drywood termites that love old pine: Lake Worth Beach bungalows rot at the siding, the sills and the porch. We splice new wood into the old, match the profile and the reveal, prime, paint and seal it, and keep the house looking like itself.
AFTERBEFORE
Fascia & Eaves
Window Sills
Door Jambs & Casings
Trim & Siding
Termite Damage Rebuilds
Deck Boards & Railings
Stairs & Posts
Primed, Painted & SealedOn a house this old the first rot repair sets the pattern for every one after it, so it has to match. We price a sill, a porch post or a fascia board on the call, in writing; a wall of siding gets a look and a written scope first.
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.
Age and the lagoon. The bungalows of College Park, Parrot Cove and the Lucerne neighborhoods went up in the 1920s and 1930s in wood, on small lots a few blocks from the water, and the salt air has been lifting their paint ever since. Once the paint is open the wet season runs water into the siding laps, the sill corners and the porch post bottoms, and the humidity keeps it there. The midcentury block houses west of Dixie rot the way the rest of the county does, at the fascia, the soffit and the door jambs. We look at the water side and the porch first.
The West Indian drywood termite is the one that worries an old bungalow: it lives inside dry siding, trim and window frames, needs no soil, and its biggest populations in Florida are in older buildings in the southern half of the state. Blistered paint and hard pellets below a pinhole are the sign. Subterranean termites, Formosan ones included, come up the piers and the stucco from damp ground. A licensed pest company identifies and treats; we rebuild the wood after, in that order, so the wall is opened once.
A rotted run of clapboard or a sill on a 1925 bungalow is replaced with wood milled to the same profile and the same reveal, not a modern board that reads wrong from the street. We cut back to sound wood, back-prime the new piece, set it, caulk and paint to match. In a historic district that is also what keeps the repair a minor one.
Repaint the lagoon-side wall on a schedule, before it peels. Keep the gutters clear through the wet season and the downspouts away from the porch posts and the siding. Keep soil and planters off the bottom course of siding. Fix a dripping hose bib or a sprinkler head that hits the wall the week you notice it.
Wood bungalows and Mission and Mediterranean houses from the 1920s to the 1940s a few blocks from the water, many in the city's historic districts. Salt air lifts the paint, the siding and the sills go first on the water side, and the porches rot at the post bases. We match the siding profile, rebuild the sills and the posts, and keep the repair inside what a historic district allows without a review.
Bungalows on 25- and 50-foot lots with alleys behind them and the original wood windows, trim and porches. The alley side gets the least attention and the most rot: fascia behind a gutter nobody cleans, a back door jamb on the slab, garage trim at the ground. We rebuild the alley side as carefully as the street side.
Midcentury block houses toward I-95 with wood fascia, soffit and door frames and fewer historic rules. The gutters overflow, the fascia rots behind them, and the sprinkler keeps the jamb bottoms wet for the termites. We rebuild the boards and fix the gutter end or the sprinkler head that caused it.
The same West Palm Beach crew covers the rest of the county, and the West Palm Beach dry rot and wood rot repair page has the county permit rule, the WDO report and the historic district picture for the bigger city next door.
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.
Lake Worth Beach publishes its own permit exceptions, and they fit rot work well: soffit and fascia can be repaired or replaced up to a quarter of the total without a permit, a previously permitted wood deck can have up to a hundred square feet of boards replaced as long as no framing member is touched, and stucco can be repaired. Beyond those lines, and for siding or any rebuild into framing, the city wants a permit, and inside a historic district the permit comes with a Certificate of Appropriateness. We tell you on the call which side your job falls on, and we do not promise the new state exemption.
A sale here runs on the Wood-Destroying Organisms Inspection Report from a licensed pest control company, the state form that lists live termites, evidence and damage, wood-decaying fungi included. On a 1920s bungalow the damage list can be long, and the form says in capitals that it is not a structural damage report, so the building trade has to open the siding to size it. We do the carpentry on that list and match the old wood; the pest company treats and certifies, then looks again.
College Park, Old Lucerne and the other local historic districts review changes to the outside of a house with a Certificate of Appropriateness, but the city code exempts minor repairs that keep the house looking the way it does. A rotted sill rebuilt in the same profile, a run of siding matched course for course, a porch post turned to the old pattern: that is the minor repair the rule has in mind. A new window or a changed trim profile is a review, and we put the materials and profile in writing for it.
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Call 561-220-5884A sill, a porch post or a fascia board is priced on the call and usually scheduled within days from our West Palm Beach office. A wall of bungalow siding or a porch is sized after a look, with the scope in writing before anything starts.
Yes. After a licensed pest company treats, we cut out the siding, trim, sills and the framing we can reach that the termites ate, and rebuild it to match. Treatment, fumigation and the report belong to the pest company; the wood belongs to us.
Siding, sills, sashes, porch posts, fascia and trim are carpentry, and Kaminskiy is licensed, bonded and insured. On a bungalow we match the profile and the reveal so the repair belongs on the street. A rotted beam, pier or porch header is named first, before anyone opens a wall.
On an old house it is mostly the matching: how many courses of siding come out, whether the profile is still milled, how high the fascia sits, and what the paint has to match. Text a photo and the price is in writing before anything is scheduled.
Usually. We match the clapboard or shingle profile, the exposure and the corner boards, prime every face and paint to match. If a profile is no longer milled we show you the closest match before we start, and we can have a short run milled for a historic house.
Not for a soffit or fascia repair under a quarter of the total, a stucco repair, or up to a hundred square feet of deck boards on a permitted deck: those are on the city's own exception list. Siding and anything into framing take a permit, and in a historic district a minor repair that keeps the look is exempt from review while a changed profile is not. We check before a bigger job.
All of Lake Worth Beach, including College Park, Parrot Cove, Bryant Park, the Lucerne neighborhoods, Tropical Ridge and Mango Groves, plus Lantana, Palm Springs, Greenacres, Boynton Beach and West Palm Beach. Call 561-220-5884 and we confirm the street.
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: 561-220-5884.
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.
