Trim, sills, fascia, siding and deck posts under the firs cut out and rebuilt with sound wood, sealed against the damp. Priced in writing before we start.
BBBAccredited BusinessFelida grows big trees and wet wood. Kaminskiy Care and Repair rebuilds the rot the firs and the greenway shade leave behind: corner trim and sills on the north walls, fascia under gutters that fill with needles, cedar and T1-11 on the 1970s ranches off NW 119th, deck boards and post bases down toward the lake and the creek. Cut back to sound wood, rebuilt with the same profile, primed on every face, painted and sealed, with the gutter end or the grade that started it fixed. Carpenter ants and dampwood termites get a licensed pest company; the carpentry is ours. The price is in writing before anything starts.
Eight repairs, one crew, priced in writing before we start.
Felida wood rots in the shade: under the Douglas firs on the Lake Shore lots, along the Salmon Creek Greenway where the air never dries, on the north wall of every house in between. We cut back to sound wood, rebuild, prime, paint and seal, and open up the water path that caused it.
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Fascia & Eaves
Window Sills
Door Jambs & Casings
Trim & Siding
Termite Damage Rebuilds
Deck Boards & Railings
Stairs & Posts
Primed, Painted & SealedShade rot does not announce itself; it waits under the paint until a screwdriver finds it. Most Felida trim, sill, fascia and siding repairs are priced by a Kaminskiy-certified technician on the call, in writing, and a deck, a post run or a whole north wall 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.
Trees and shade. Felida keeps more of its Douglas firs than most of the county, and a wall under a fir canopy never gets the sun that would dry it between storms; the gutters fill with needles and overflow onto the fascia, moss grows on the north-side siding and the deck boards, and the air off Vancouver Lake and the Salmon Creek Greenway stays damp into June. The rot is wherever the water sits: the bottom of the corner trim, the sill corners, the fascia ends, the post bases.
A fir stump or a rotting log in the yard is where the main carpenter ant colony lives, and the satellite nest ends up in the wet sill or the deck beam. They do not eat the wood; they hollow it. Dampwood termites nest only in wood that is already wet, so they are a sign of the moisture, not the cause, and subterranean termites are uncommon west of the mountains. The pest company treats the colony and the stump; we rebuild the wood and take away the damp.
Filler holds paint, not water. In Felida the wood behind the patch stays wet for seven months, so the patch pops the next spring. We cut back to sound wood, splice or replace with the same profile, back-prime, set it over intact paper and flashing, caulk and paint. Done that way, it is the last repair that spot needs.
Gutters after the needle drop in November and again before the spring storms. Limb the firs up off the roof and the walls. Rake the needles and the moss off the deck. Keep the bark dust and the lawn edge below the siding. If a wall never sees the sun, give it a repaint before the paint fails rather than after.
Big lots under big firs, with 1970s and 1980s homes in cedar and T1-11, decks out back and long runs of fascia under the canopy. The gutters overflow onto the fascia, the T1-11 wicks at its bottom edge and the deck posts rot at the slab. We cut the sheet back to sound wood, flash the cut, rebuild the fascia and set the posts on standoffs.
Ranches and two-stories from the 1970s to the 1990s with cedar, hardboard and vinyl-over-wood, aluminum windows in wood bucks and garage door trim on the slab. The window bucks rot behind the metal, the trim rots at the slab and the corner boards go on the north side. We rebuild the bucks, reflash the sills and match the trim profile.
The dampest streets in Felida: lots backing onto the creek and the trail, where the siding and the deck boards stay wet most of the year and the moss never leaves. Bottom courses, deck boards and railing posts go first. We replace what has gone, keep what is sound and name a ledger problem before the deck is touched.
Felida is served from the Vancouver office ten minutes down I-5, and the Vancouver dry rot and wood rot repair page has the county-wide picture, the city rule and the Washington WDO report 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.
Felida is unincorporated Clark County, so the county is the permit office, not the City of Vancouver. The county's own list leaves painting and finish work alone, puts window and siding replacement on a permit, and files minor repairs such as rot repair under its Alteration, Repair and Specialty permit. The state residential code underneath treats an ordinary repair as needing no application, and we read a rebuilt sill or a fascia board that way; a run of new siding, a rafter tail or a deck ledger is a question we put to the Permit Center on Franklin Street before we open it, with the permit in the written scope when one applies.
Selling or refinancing in Felida means a complete wood destroying organism inspection by a structural pest inspector licensed by the state Department of Agriculture, with an inspection control number on the report. The findings come by organism, carpenter ants and wood decay fungi most often here, with the conducive conditions that invited them: the fir needles in the gutter, the bark against the siding, the shrubs on the wall. We repair the damaged wood and the carpentry-side conditions; the pest company treats whatever is live; the inspector reinspects.
The newer streets in Felida have associations with exterior standards, and a rot repair painted to match rarely needs a form; a different trim profile or color sometimes does, and we put the materials and finish in writing for it. The older Lake Shore lots have no association to ask. A full re-side anywhere falls under Washington's moisture rules for new siding and is a different job from a like-for-like repair, which we lap into the paper and flashing already on the wall.
Can't find your answer? Call 360-347-2002 and ask us anything.
Call 360-347-2002Trim, sills, fascia and siding courses are priced on the call and usually scheduled within days from Park Plaza Drive. A deck, a post run or a whole shaded wall gets a look first and a written scope. Nobody names a finish date before the wood is open.
Yes. We cut out the hollowed sill, trim or framing we can reach, rebuild it, and remove the wet wood and the stump-side conditions that drew them. Treatment, the colony and the report are the pest company's; the carpentry is ours.
That is carpentry, and Kaminskiy is licensed, bonded and insured: T1-11 cut back and flashed, corner trim and fascia rebuilt, sills and jambs spliced, deck boards and posts replaced. A beam or a ledger gets named before anyone opens a wall.
The length of the run once the trim is off, the height under the trees, and the match, since a 1970s cedar channel and a hardboard lap are not the same piece. Text a photo and the price is in writing before anything is scheduled; if it runs further than the photo showed, you hear it before we go on.
No. Paint over soft wood traps the water, and under a fir the wood is wet until June. We rebuild the board, back-prime it, set it, caulk and paint, so the paint has sound wood to protect.
Not for paint or an ordinary repair. Clark County does list rot repair under its repair permit and puts a re-side or a window swap on a permit, so a run of new siding or anything into framing is a question we ask the Permit Center before the job, and the permit goes into the written scope.
All of Felida, including Lake Shore, the Felida Community streets, Sorenson Park and the Salmon Creek Greenway side, plus Salmon Creek, Hazel Dell, Ridgefield and Vancouver. Call 360-347-2002 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: 360-347-2002.
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.
