Fascia, soffits, window sills, siding and deck boards cut out and rebuilt with sound wood, matched to the house. Priced in writing before we start.
BBBAccredited BusinessKaminskiy Care and Repair cuts out dry rot, wood rot and termite damage on Austin homes and rebuilds it with sound wood: the fascia and soffit boards under a roof that bakes all summer, the wood trim on a brick veneer house, the sills on the older bungalows north of the river, the siding on the newer streets south of it, the deck boards over a greenbelt lot. Each piece is primed on every face, painted to match and sealed, and the gutter, drip edge or sprinkler that fed it is fixed. A licensed pest company handles the termites; the carpentry is ours. The price is in writing before anything starts.
Eight repairs, one crew, priced in writing before we start.
Austin wood takes a hundred days of heat, then a spring storm that drops inches in an hour. Paint checks on the fascia, the water finds the end grain, and the eastern subterranean termite follows the moisture up from the limestone soil. We cut back to sound wood, rebuild, 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 none of them wait well through a Central Texas summer. A fascia board, a sill or a trim run is priced on the call, in writing; a deck or a wider rebuild gets a written scope after a look.
Priced and on the calendar during the first call.
A written quote you approve before anyone drives out.
One crew, truck stocked, warranty in writing.
A one-year workmanship warranty, in writing, on every Austin rot and termite damage repair.
Heat first, then water. An Austin summer bakes the paint on fascia, soffits and sills until it checks, the caulk pulls away from brick or siding, and the first real storm sends water straight into the end grain. Sprinklers keep the same jamb and post wet all year. Rot in Austin is a south and west wall problem and a gutter problem, and that is where we look first.
The termite that does most of the damage in Austin is the eastern subterranean kind. It lives in the soil, comes up in mud tubes where wood or brick meets the ground, and swarms in Central Texas mostly from February through May. Texas A&M has traced a few Formosan colonies in the area to recycled railroad ties used in landscaping. A licensed pest company treats the colony; we rebuild what it ate, in that order.
A fascia board rotted through will not hold filler through the next storm season. We cut the board back to sound wood, splice or replace with the same profile, back-prime it, caulk the joint and paint to match, so the repair reads as original and the water has no way back in.
Clear the gutters before the spring storms and again before fall, aim the sprinkler heads off the house, keep mulch and soil below the brick ledge or the siding line, and repaint the south and west walls before the paint fails. On an Austin house the paint is doing most of the work.
Bungalows and 1940s to 1960s ranches with wood siding, wood-framed windows, porches and long runs of trim. Sills and porch posts go soft at the bottom, the bottom courses of siding rot where the sprinkler hits, and the fascia behind an old gutter stains and fails. We splice new wood into old, match the profile and get the water off the wood.
Brick veneer homes from the 1980s onward with wood fascia, soffits, trim and garage door jambs, most of them in an association. The sun checks the paint, the rain follows it in, and termites travel up behind the brick in mud tubes. We rebuild the boards, match the HOA color and fix the drip edge or the gutter end that let the water in.
View homes with decks, balconies and railings facing the weather and the afternoon sun. Deck boards go soft at the ends, railing posts rot at the base where water pools, and a ledger can hide damage behind the siding. We rebuild boards and rails where they stand, and name a ledger problem before anyone opens a wall.
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.
Austin keeps a published list of work exempt from a building permit, and most rot repair is on it: repairing or replacing exterior trim components including wood fascia, trim and soffits; siding up to 128 square feet that is not part of a fire-rated assembly; a non-structural deck repair limited to the existing boards; replacing a door of the same size. Painting is exempt too. Rot that has reached rafter tails, wall framing or a deck ledger is past that list and gets a permit, and we tell you on the call.
A Texas sale usually comes with the Official Wood Destroying Insect Report, written by an inspector licensed by the Texas Department of Agriculture in the termite and wood destroying insect category. It reports visible evidence of active or previous infestation, previous treatment and the conditions that invite termites, and it warns that concealed damage may not be found. The pest company treats and clears; we rebuild the damaged fascia, trim, sills and framing we can reach. Send the report with the address and we price from it.
Circle C, Steiner Ranch, Avery Ranch and most of the suburbs are association communities, and a rot repair painted to the scheme rarely needs a form; a changed trim profile sometimes does, and we put the materials and finish in writing. Hyde Park and a few other local historic districts review exterior changes; an in-kind repair is maintenance, and we ask before a bigger job rather than guess.
Can't find your answer? Call 512-846-7414 and ask us anything.
Call 512-846-7414We answer in under three rings and price most fascia, soffit, sill and trim repairs on the call. Scheduling is usually within days; a deck or a run of siding is sized after a look, with the scope in writing before anything starts.
Yes. Once a licensed pest company has treated the colony, we cut out what the termites ate in the trim, fascia, sills and the framing we can reach, and rebuild it. Treatment and the WDI report are theirs; the carpentry is ours.
Yes. Fascia, soffits, sills, trim, siding and deck boards are carpentry, and Kaminskiy is licensed, bonded and insured, so a rafter tail or a splice into framing is fine too. A beam or a ledger gets named before anyone opens a wall.
How far the rot runs once the board is open, how high it sits (a sill at grade is not a fascia run on a Westlake hillside), and the finish it has to match. Text a photo and the price is in writing before anything is scheduled.
Not for most rot repair: the city exempts repairing or replacing wood fascia, trim and soffits, siding up to 128 square feet, a non-structural deck board repair and painting. Rot in rafter tails, framing or a ledger takes a permit, and we tell you which on the call.
Sometimes both. Soft, dark, crumbly wood with no insects is rot; mud tubes on the brick, hollow-sounding wood or swarmers indoors in spring means termites. Send a photo and we tell you whether a pest company needs to go first.
All of Austin, including Hyde Park, Tarrytown, Travis Heights, Allandale, Circle C, Steiner Ranch and Westlake, plus Round Rock, Cedar Park, Pflugerville, Lakeway, Buda and Kyle. Call 512-846-7414 to confirm your address.
Tell us where the wood has gone soft, or text a photo, and we call back with a written price and a time. Calling is still faster: 512-846-7414.
Priced in writing before we start, rebuilt to last, warranted in writing.
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.
