Rotted siding, window sills, door jambs, fascia and deck boards cut out and rebuilt with sound wood, from an office in the city. Priced in writing before we start.
BBBAccredited BusinessKaminskiy Care and Repair rebuilds rotted wood on Hillsboro homes from our own office on Tanasbourne Drive: the old lap siding and fir trim on the farmhouses and 1940s to 1960s houses around Shute Park and Jackson School, the window corners and deck ledgers on the 1990s streets of Orenco and Tanasbourne built before Oregon required a drainage gap, the door thresholds and deck boards on the new streets of South Hillsboro. Each piece is cut back to sound wood, rebuilt with the same profile, primed on all faces, painted to match and the water path fixed. If carpenter ants are in the wet wood, a licensed pest company treats first and we rebuild after. The price is in writing before anything starts, and the crew does not have far to drive. Since 2024 our technicians have completed 142 repair visits on 78 Hillsboro homes, most of them a short drive from the office.
Eight repairs, one crew, priced in writing before we start.
Valley soil that drains slowly, water sitting a foot down all winter and a bottom course of siding that wicks it: Hillsboro rot climbs from the ground. We cut back to sound wood, rebuild, back-prime and seal, and get the grade and the downspout right so the new wood stays dry. Our office is on Tanasbourne Drive, so we are never far.
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 a short drive for us and a bigger repair if it waits a winter. Most Hillsboro siding, sill and jamb repairs are priced on the call, in writing; a deck or a full wall 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 stays put. Much of the Tualatin Valley floor is silt loam that drains slowly, with water sitting a foot or two down through the wet season, and nearly all the year's rain falls between October and May. A bottom course of siding, a post base or a jamb on a slab sits over that wet ground for months and wicks it. On the 1990s streets the water came from the other direction: rain got behind siding that had no gap to drain, and the rot showed up at window corners years later. Either way the fix is the same: sound wood, sealed on every face, and the water path closed.
The wood destroyers in Hillsboro are the Northwest ones. Carpenter ants do not eat wood; they carve nests in wood that is already wet and leave sawdust below the trim. Pacific dampwood termites nest inside moist, damaged wood. 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 the wood, in that order, because no treatment holds while the wood stays wet.
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 and seal the end grain, set it, flash or caulk the joint and paint it to match. A filler patch skips every step but the last, which is why it fails by spring.
Get the downspouts into a drain or a splash block that carries water away from the wall, not onto the jamb. Keep soil and bark dust below the bottom course and the shrubs a foot off the siding. Recaulk the window-to-siding joints when the line opens. Repaint the north wall before the paint fails, and clean the gutters in October.
Planned streets from the 1990s and 2000s with association standards and siding from the years before Oregon's drainage-gap rule. Water that got behind the siding shows up as a stain below a window corner, a soft jamb bottom or a wet deck ledger. We rebuild the section, correct the flashing and match the association's color.
Farmhouses, bungalows and 1940s to 1960s houses with cedar lap siding, fir trim, fir sills and open porches, under big old trees. The bottom courses rot over soil that was built up over the decades, the sills go soft at the corners and the porch posts rot where they stand. We splice new wood into the old, match the profile and get the grade back below the wood line.
The newest streets, built with a drainage gap and better flashing, in valley soil that stays wet. The rot is small and early: a door threshold, a deck board, a post base set in a pocket that holds water. Small fixes, matched to the trim profile and the color, with the detail corrected so the repair is the last one.
The Hillsboro office is the one that covers the whole metro; the Portland dry rot and wood rot repair page carries the Portland permit rule, the historic-district exemption and the Oregon pest and dry rot inspection in plain words.
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.
Hillsboro's Permit Center administers Oregon's statewide residential code, which asks for 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, and no application for an ordinary repair with like materials. The city's own pages read repair more carefully than most, so before a job that reaches framing, a ledger or a post that carries a roof, we ask the Permit Center on Hillsboro's behalf rather than guess, and tell you what it said.
There is no mandatory termite report on an Oregon sale. A Hillsboro buyer orders a pest and dry rot inspection from a licensed inspector, on its own or inside the whole-home inspection, and it lists the soft sills, the siding bottoms, the deck boards and any ant damage. We repair what the report lists, priced from it in writing, and the buyer's inspector rechecks before closing. Our office is ten minutes from most of the city, so that recheck is not hard to schedule.
Orenco Station, Tanasbourne, AmberGlen and the South Hillsboro neighborhoods have associations with exterior standards. A rot repair painted to match rarely needs a form; a changed trim profile or a new color sometimes does, and we put the materials and finish in writing for it. Oregon's drainage-gap rule for siding applies to a re-side; a like-for-like repair of a section is not that, and we say so when a wall is past repairing.
Can't find your answer? Call 971-571-5787 and ask us anything.
Call 971-571-5787Faster than anywhere else we work, because the office is here. A sill, a jamb or a run of siding is priced on the call and usually scheduled within days; a deck or a full wall is sized after a look, with the scope in writing before anything starts.
Yes. After a licensed pest company treats, we cut out the carved trim, siding and the framing we can reach, fix the leak or the grade that kept the wood wet, and rebuild. The treatment and any report are the pest company's; the carpentry is ours.
Yes. Siding, sills, trim, jambs, porch posts and deck boards are carpentry, and Kaminskiy is licensed, bonded and insured, so a splice into a stringer or a rim joist is fine too. A beam or a ledger gets named before anyone opens a wall.
How much wood comes out once it is opened, how high it is, and what it has to match. A jamb bottom is a short visit; a wall of 1990s siding with water behind it is not. Text a photo and the price is in writing before anything is scheduled.
On a 1990s Orenco or Tanasbourne house it is usually water that got behind the siding at the window corner and has no gap to drain. Painting it hides it for a season. We open the corner, rebuild the rotted sheathing and trim we can reach, flash it properly and put the siding back.
Not for siding repair, a same-size window or door, painting or a low deck: the state code exempts those and an ordinary repair needs no application. For rot that reaches framing, a ledger or a load-bearing post we ask the Permit Center first and tell you what it said.
All of Hillsboro from our office on Tanasbourne Drive, including Orenco Station, Tanasbourne, AmberGlen, Shute Park, Jackson School and South Hillsboro, plus Aloha, Beaverton, Cornelius, Forest Grove and North Plains. 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.
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.
