Rotted deck boards and ledgers, window trim, door jambs and siding sections on newer hillside homes cut out and rebuilt with sound wood. Priced in writing before we start.
BBBAccredited BusinessHappy Valley homes are young, so Kaminskiy Care and Repair finds the rot where the water was never drained rather than where the wood is old: a deck ledger behind the siding, a window corner where the flashing lapped the wrong way, a door jamb set on the slab, a rail post sitting in a pocket of water on a hillside deck, siding from the years before Oregon required a drainage gap. Each is cut back to sound wood, rebuilt, primed on all faces, painted to the association's color and the detail that let the water in is corrected. If carpenter ants found the wet wood first, a licensed pest company treats and we rebuild after. The price is in writing before anything starts.
Eight repairs, one crew, priced in writing before we start.
A hillside lot, a deck facing the weather and nine months of rain find every flashing mistake a builder made. Happy Valley rot is a detail problem, and the repair is the detail fixed: the ledger flashed, the corner lapped right, the jamb lifted off the slab, the new wood sealed on every face.
AFTERBEFORE
Fascia & Eaves
Window Sills
Door Jambs & Casings
Trim & Siding
Termite Damage Rebuilds
Deck Boards & Railings
Stairs & Posts
Primed, Painted & SealedOn a young house the first rot repair is the one to get right. Most Happy Valley jamb, trim and deck board repairs are priced on the call, in writing; a ledger or a run of siding 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.
Builder details and the hill. Most of Happy Valley went up from the 1990s on, on the slopes of Mount Scott and Scouters Mountain, with decks and railings facing the weather and siding installed in the years when Oregon's wall failures were being discovered. Where a window was flashed wrong, a ledger was bolted through the siding with no flashing, or a jamb sits on the slab, the rain has nine months a year to get in and nowhere to drain. The wood is new; the water path is the problem, and we fix the path with the wood.
The insect that follows a wet ledger or a wet jamb in Happy Valley is the carpenter ant: it does not eat the wood, it carves a nest in wood that is already damp, and the sawdust pile below the trim is the sign. Pacific dampwood termites nest in wet, damaged wood as well; subterranean termites are rarer here and show as soil tubes on a foundation. A licensed pest company treats the colony; we fix the water and rebuild, and the pest company goes first.
A deck ledger bolted to the house without flashing wets the rim joist and the wall sheathing behind the siding, and that is the rot you cannot see from the deck. We probe the ledger and the band joist when the boards are off, rebuild what we can reach, flash it properly and say plainly when a ledger or a beam needs an engineer before anyone opens the wall.
Keep the deck boards gapped and the debris out of the gaps so the ledger line can dry. Keep the sprinklers off the siding and the bark dust below the bottom course. Caulk the window-to-siding joints when the line opens and recaulk the door threshold. Repaint the weather side on a schedule; on a hillside the wind drives the rain into the paint film first.
Steep lots with terraced yards, decks on tall posts and walls that take the weather off the valley. Deck boards rot at the ends, rail posts at the base where water pools, and the ledger behind the siding goes unseen until the floor feels soft. We rebuild boards, rails and posts where they stand and flash the ledger properly.
Subdivisions from the 1990s and 2000s with association standards and siding installed before the drainage-gap rule. Water gets in at window corners and the garage jamb and has nowhere to go, so the rot shows as a stain below a window or a soft jamb bottom. We rebuild the section, correct the flashing and match the association's color.
The newest streets, built with a drainage gap and better flashing, so the rot is smaller and later: a door threshold, a deck board, a trim piece on the wind side. Smaller fixes, matched to the profile and the color, with the caulk line or the threshold corrected so the repair is the last one.
Happy Valley is served from Hillsboro with the rest of the metro; the Portland dry rot and wood rot repair page has the whole picture: the Oregon pest and dry rot inspection, the statewide permit rule and how the older Portland housing rots differently from a hillside subdivision.
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.
Happy Valley has its own Building Division, and it administers Oregon's statewide residential code: no permit to repair or replace siding that is not fire-rated, to replace a window or a door in the same opening, to paint, or for a deck under 30 inches above grade, and no application for an ordinary repair with like materials. On a hillside lot most decks are well over 30 inches, so a rebuilt ledger, a new post or a beam is where the permit question starts, and we ask the city before a job like that rather than guess.
Oregon requires no termite report on a sale. A Happy Valley buyer orders a pest and dry rot inspection from a licensed inspector, usually with the whole-home inspection, and on a newer house its list is short and specific: a deck board, a jamb bottom, a stain below a window. We repair what the report lists, priced from it in writing, and the inspector rechecks before closing.
Most of Happy Valley is association communities with exterior standards. A rot repair painted to match the scheme rarely needs a form; a changed trim profile or a new color sometimes does, and we put the materials and finish in writing for the board. Oregon's drainage-gap rule for siding applies when a wall is re-sided; a like-for-like repair of a section is not that, and we say so when a wall is past repairing.
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Call 971-571-5787A jamb, a trim piece or a few deck boards are priced on the call and usually scheduled within days. A ledger, a rail run or a wall of siding is sized after a look, with the scope in writing before anything starts; the painting waits for a dry stretch.
Yes, once a licensed pest company has treated. We cut out the carved trim, siding and the framing we can reach, fix the flashing or the leak that kept the wood wet, and rebuild. The treatment is theirs; the rebuild is ours.
The boards, the rails, the posts and the flashing, yes, and Kaminskiy is licensed, bonded and insured, so a splice into a rim joist is fine too. If the ledger or a beam that carries the deck is rotted through, we say so first and tell you who needs to look at it before anyone opens the wall.
The size of the rebuild once the wood is opened, the height of the deck or the wall on a hillside lot, and the siding or trim it has to match. Text a photo and the price is in writing before anything is scheduled; if the rot runs further than the photo showed, you hear it before we go further.
Rarely, for a repair painted to match. If the trim profile or the color changes, some boards want a form, and we give you the materials and finish in writing to attach to it.
Not for siding repair, a same-size window or door, painting or a deck under 30 inches: the state code the city administers exempts those, and an ordinary repair needs no application. Most hillside decks are taller than that, so a rebuilt ledger, post or beam is where we ask the Building Division first.
All of Happy Valley from our Hillsboro office, including the Mount Scott slopes, Rock Creek, Scouters Mountain, Pleasant Valley and North Carver, plus Clackamas, Damascus, Gresham and Portland's southeast. Call 971-571-5787 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: 971-571-5787.
Priced in writing before we start. Kaminskiy-certified technicians. A one-year workmanship warranty on every job.
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