Cornices, window sills, stoop and porch wood, siding and roof deck boards cut out and rebuilt with sound wood, matched to the house. Priced in writing before we start.
BBBAccredited BusinessJersey City's houses are rowhouses and two-families, and Kaminskiy Care and Repair rebuilds the wood on them that the Hudson winters and the harbor air take: the cornices and brackets on the brownstone and brick rows, the window sills and sashes, the wood stoops, porches and stair stringers, the clapboard and corner boards in the Heights, the roof deck and rear deck boards. Each piece is cut back to sound wood, rebuilt with the same profile, primed on every face, painted to match and sealed, with the gutter, the flashing or the grade that caused it fixed. Carpenter ants or termites in it go to a licensed pest company first. The price is in writing before anything starts.
Eight repairs, one crew, priced in writing before we start.
A nor'easter drives rain into every joint on the street face, the freeze-thaw opens the paint on the sills and the cornice, the snow refreezes at the parapet and the roof edge, and the harbor air keeps the wood damp. We cut back to sound wood, rebuild to the profile, prime and paint, and shut the water out.
AFTERBEFORE
Fascia & Eaves
Window Sills
Door Jambs & Casings
Trim & Siding
Termite Damage Rebuilds
Deck Boards & Railings
Stairs & Posts
Primed, Painted & SealedEvery one of these is routine for a Kaminskiy-certified technician, and most are priced on the call, in writing: a sill, a bracket, a stoop tread, a run of siding. A cornice rebuild or a porch gets a written scope after a look.
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.
Weather on the street face and water at the roof. A nor'easter drives rain sideways into the cornice, the sills and the clapboard joints; the freeze-thaw cycle opens every paint joint; snow refreezes at the parapet and the roof edge and backs water into the cornice from above; and the harbor air keeps the wood from ever fully drying. A stoop or a porch post sits in slush and salt for months. On a rowhouse the fix is sound wood, sealed on every face, and the water path closed, from the roof edge down.
The carpenter ant is the insect most often found in Jersey City rot: it nests in wood that is already damp from a roof or a gutter leak and pushes coarse sawdust out below the nest. The eastern subterranean termite is here too, coming up in mud tubes on the foundation or through the cellar where wood meets the ground. A licensed pest company handles either colony; we rebuild the sill, the joist end or the stoop they hollowed out, after.
A wood cornice is the face of a rowhouse, and the profile is the point. We cut back to sound wood, replicate the brackets, the fascia and the moldings to the original dimensions, back-prime the new pieces, set them, caulk and paint to match, so the repair reads as original from the sidewalk and passes the preservation commission's eye.
Keep the roof drains, the gutters and the leaders clear, fix the flashing at the parapet and the cornice cap, keep snow and salt shoveled back from the stoop and the siding, keep soil below the siding line in the Heights, and repaint the street face before the paint fails rather than after. On a rowhouse the roof edge is where the rot starts.
Brownstone and brick rowhouses from the 1850s through the 1900s whose wood is the cornice, the brackets, the window sills and sashes, the doors and the rear decks, inside the city's historic districts. Cornice boards and brackets go soft, sills rot from the outside in, and roof deck boards take the weather. We rebuild in kind, replicate the profile and keep the commission's rules in mind before anyone starts.
Two- and three-family wood frame houses from the 1890s through the 1930s with clapboard or siding over clapboard, wood porches, stoops and stairs, and wood-framed windows. Porch stringers and posts go soft, the bottom clapboards rot at the ground, sills split, and the owner or the landlord needs the list priced. We rebuild the porches where they stand and put the scope in writing.
Rowhouses, two-families and 1980s to 2000s townhouse communities with wood where it shows: cornices and sills on the older rows, fascia, trim, porch columns, deck boards and railings on the newer streets. Association standards apply in the townhouse communities, so we photograph the profile and the color and match both, and fix the leader or the grade that kept the wood wet.
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.
New Jersey's Uniform Construction Code lists ordinary maintenance that needs no permit application or notice, and it names most rot repair: the repair or replacement of existing siding on a one- or two-family house, the repair, replacement or installation of exterior trim, decoration or moldings, the replacement of a window or door in the same opening, and the repair of any part of a deck, porch or stoop that does not provide structural support. The line is the cutting of a load-bearing wall or a structural beam or bearing support, which is permit work, and so is the minor work category above ordinary maintenance. A cornice board, a sill or a stoop tread is ordinary maintenance; a porch rebuild or rot in a joist end is not, and we tell you which on the call.
New Jersey has no state termite form, so the report comes up when the lender requires it or the buyer wants it. A New Jersey-licensed pest control company inspects and fills out the NPMA-33 for what was visible that day, termites and carpenter ants included, and does any treatment. The cornice, sill, stoop or joist end the report flags is our carpentry, priced from the report and the address.
Paulus Hook, Van Vorst Park, Hamilton Park and Harsimus Cove are Jersey City historic districts, where the Historic Preservation Commission reviews exterior changes; a repair that puts back the same cornice or sill in the same profile is the easy case, and we photograph the original and match it. In a rowhouse turned condo, the cornice, the sills and the roof deck are usually the association's, and we put the scope in writing for the board.
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Call 201-627-9997We answer in under three rings and price most sill, bracket, stoop and siding repairs on the call. Scheduling is usually within days in the warm months; a cornice, a porch or a run of siding is sized after a look, with the scope in writing first.
Yes. After a licensed pest company has dealt with the colony, we cut out the hollowed sill, joist end or stoop framing we can reach, rebuild it with sound wood and fix the leak that kept the wood damp. Treatment and the report are theirs; the carpentry is ours.
The wood cornice, brackets, fascia and moldings, yes: that is carpentry, and Kaminskiy is licensed, bonded and insured. If the rot has reached the roof framing behind the cornice, or a joist end in a wall, we say so first and tell you who needs to look at it before anyone opens it up.
How far the rot runs once the wood is open, how high it sits (a stoop tread is not a cornice bracket three stories up over a sidewalk), and how much of the original profile has to be replicated. Text a photo and the price is in writing before anything is scheduled.
Not for ordinary maintenance, which the state code defines to include repairing siding on a one- or two-family house, exterior trim and moldings, a window or door in the same opening and the non-structural parts of a deck, porch or stoop. A porch rebuild or rot in a beam or a joist is permit work, and the historic districts review exterior changes. We tell you which on the call.
Usually not. We cut the rotted section back to sound wood, replicate the brackets and moldings that went soft, splice in new wood and paint the whole cornice to match, and leave the sound parts alone. Then we fix the cap flashing or the roof drain that fed it.
All of Jersey City, including Paulus Hook, Van Vorst Park, Hamilton Park, the Heights, Journal Square, Bergen-Lafayette and Greenville, plus Hoboken, Bayonne, Union City, Weehawken, Kearny and Secaucus. Call 201-627-9997 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: 201-627-9997.
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.
