Porch posts, window sills, lap siding, deck boards and the fascia the winter ice gets behind, cut out and replaced with sound wood. A written price before we start.
BBBAccredited BusinessThree things rot Boise wood: the ice that builds at the eave in January, the high-desert sun that strips the paint by August, and the irrigation water that hits the same boards every morning in between. Kaminskiy Care and Repair takes the damaged wood out and puts sound wood back, whether it is a porch post on a North End bungalow, the bottom courses of siding on a Bench ranch, a sill that checked open on the south wall, the fascia and soffit behind an ice dam, or the deck boards on a foothills lot that spent the winter under snow. New wood goes in back-primed, caulked, painted to the house and sealed, and the sprinkler head, gutter or flashing that caused the damage gets fixed on the same visit. Carpenter ants in the wood mean a licensed pest company goes first. You get the price in writing before we start.
Eight repairs, one crew, priced in writing before we start.
Ice at the eave, sun on the walls, irrigation at the ground: Boise wood gets wet from three directions, and the paint joint that opens in the winter freeze lets the summer sprinkler in. We take the rot out to sound wood, put the board back to its old profile, prime and paint it, and stop the water that started it.
AFTERBEFORE
Fascia & Eaves
Window Sills
Door Jambs & Casings
Trim & Siding
Termite Damage Rebuilds
Deck Boards & Railings
Stairs & Posts
Primed, Painted & SealedThe window for this work is April to October, between the thaw and the next freeze. Text us a photo and a Kaminskiy-certified technician prices the sill, the post or the siding run on the spot, in writing; a porch or a deck is walked first and then priced.
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.
Winter puts ice at the eave: snow melts over the warm attic, refreezes at the cold edge, and the dam sends water back under the shingles into the fascia and soffit. Spring opens the paint joints the freeze-thaw cracked. Summer brings pressurized irrigation and sprinklers that land on the same post base and the same bottom course of siding every morning from April to October, while the high-desert sun strips the paint on the south and west walls. Any one of those would rot a board. Together they explain most of what we see.
When we open rotted wood in Boise, the insect inside is almost always the carpenter ant, which does not eat wood but hollows damp wood out to nest in and pushes sawdust out of the gallery. Subterranean termites exist in southern Idaho but we rarely meet them. The colony is a licensed pest company's job; the hollowed sill, post or beam is ours, and we dry the wood out so the ants have no reason to return.
Filler and a patch sit in wood that will freeze and thaw thirty times before spring, and the joint opens. We cut back until the probe hits solid wood, replace or splice to the original profile, prime the new piece on all faces, set it on a sealed base, caulk and paint. That repair goes through the next winter.
Move the irrigation heads so they water the lawn and not the house. Keep bark and soil an inch or two below the siding. Clear the gutters before the first snow and keep the attic cold so the ice dam never forms. Fix the drip edge and the kick-out flashing. Repaint the sunny walls on a schedule, not when they peel.
Boise's oldest wood houses, bungalows and Victorians with full porches, clapboard, wood sash and miles of trim, most of them inside a historic district. Porch posts and stringers go first at the floor line, sills crack open on the south side, and the ice dam takes the fascia every few winters. The profile has to come back exactly, and we splice new wood into old to keep it.
Ranches and split-levels of the 1950s to 1980s with lap siding, wood fascia and soffits, and sprinklered lawns. The damage is low and predictable: the bottom courses of siding where the heads land, the garage door jamb standing on the slab, the fascia behind a gutter that overflowed in the ice. We replace the boards, blend the paint and move the sprinkler.
Newer homes with fiber-cement or stucco walls, so the wood is the fascia, the porch columns, the trim and above all the decks and railings that face the weather. Deck boards go soft at the ends under a winter of snow, railing posts rot where water pools at the base, and the association expects an exact color match, which we take from a chip.
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.
Boise's homeowner guide draws the lines this way: painting and interior finish work need nothing; replacement windows, re-roofing and any deck more than twelve inches above grade need a building permit; siding goes on the city's residential roofing, siding and windows application, and a structural change needs its own permit. A rotted fascia board or a sill is at the small end of that. A rebuild into rafter tails, a porch beam or wall framing is at the other end, and we call Planning and Development Services before we start rather than guess. In a historic district the certificate of appropriateness comes before any exterior work, siding and windows included.
There is no Idaho form to clear a sale. If the buyer's lender wants a wood-destroying insect report, or the buyer simply wants one, an Idaho-licensed pest control company walks the house and fills out the national NPMA-33: termites, carpenter ants and beetles it could see that day, nothing hidden. Any treatment is that company's work. What the report flags in the sills, the posts and the siding is ours, and a copy with the address is enough for us to price it.
The North End, Hyde Park, the East End and Harrison Boulevard are Boise historic districts, and the city wants a certificate of appropriateness in hand before exterior work starts there, siding and windows included. A repair that puts back the same wood to the same profile is the simplest case, and we photograph the original before we cut. The other rule is not written anywhere: on a Boise lot the irrigation system is usually what rotted the wood, and the repair includes moving the heads or the drip line so it cannot do it again.
Can't find your answer? Call 986-529-2600 and ask us anything.
Call 986-529-2600Between April and October, usually within the week for a sill, a post base or a run of siding: those are priced from a photo and put on the schedule. A porch or a deck gets walked first. The phone is answered in under three rings either way.
Once a licensed pest company has dealt with the nest, yes. We cut out the hollowed sill and whatever framing we can reach behind it, rebuild it in sound wood to the same profile, and fix the leak or the sprinkler that made the wood damp enough for ants in the first place.
For the post, the stringer, the sill and the siding, it is carpentry and it is what Kaminskiy does, licensed, bonded and insured. The line is the beam over the porch: if the rot has climbed into the beam that holds the roof up, we tell you before anyone cuts and say who should look at it.
Three things: how much wood comes out once we open it, how high it is (a post at the floor is one thing, fascia under a two-story eave is another), and what the new piece has to match. You get the number in writing from a photo, and if the rot runs further than the photo showed you hear that before we keep going.
Not for painting, and not for a small like-for-like repair at the bottom of the city's list. Windows, re-roofing and a deck over twelve inches need a permit, siding has its own application, and a rebuild into framing is permit work. In the North End and the other historic districts the certificate of appropriateness comes first. We sort that out on the call.
Irrigation. The sprinklers or the pressurized irrigation hit the bottom courses every morning, and the bark or soil holds the water against the wood. We replace the rotted courses, match the profile, and move the heads and the grade so it stays dry.
All of Boise, including the North End, the East End, the Bench, Southeast Boise, Harris Ranch and the Foothills, plus Garden City, Meridian, Eagle, Kuna, Nampa and Star. Call 986-529-2600 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: 986-529-2600.
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.
