Cedar and hardboard siding, sills, fascia, carport posts and deck boards cut out and rebuilt with sound wood. Priced in writing before we start.
BBBAccredited BusinessHazel Dell is mid-century Clark County: ranches and split-levels from the 1950s to the 1970s with cedar, hardboard and T1-11 siding, aluminum windows in wood bucks, carports on posts and a deck added later, and all of it has stood through seventy wet winters. Kaminskiy Care and Repair cuts the rot out of the bottom courses, the window bucks, the fascia, the carport post bases and the deck boards and rebuilds with sound wood, primed on every face, painted to match and sealed, with the gutter end or the grade that caused it fixed. Carpenter ants and dampwood termites get a licensed pest company; the carpentry is ours. The price is in writing before anything starts, from our office on Park Plaza Drive.
Eight repairs, one crew, priced in writing before we start.
Seventy years of rain on original wood is the Hazel Dell story: the T1-11 wicking at its bottom edge, the window bucks rotting behind the aluminum, the carport post punky at the slab. We cut back to sound wood, rebuild with the same profile, prime, paint and seal, and fix what kept it wet.
AFTERBEFORE
Fascia & Eaves
Window Sills
Door Jambs & Casings
Trim & Siding
Termite Damage Rebuilds
Deck Boards & Railings
Stairs & Posts
Primed, Painted & SealedNone of this is unusual on a house that has stood since Eisenhower, and none of it fixes itself. A Kaminskiy-certified technician prices most Hazel Dell siding, sill, fascia and post repairs on the call, in writing; a carport, a deck 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.
Age plus water. The original siding on a 1950s or 1960s Hazel Dell house has had seventy winters of rain, and the add-ons that came later, T1-11 on the additions, hardboard on the garages, pressure-treated decks on untreated ledgers, are the first to go. Rot starts at the bottom edge of the sheet siding where it wicks from the splash, at the window bucks behind the aluminum frames, at the carport post bases on the slab, and at the fascia under a gutter that has sagged off its pitch.
An old yard has stumps, landscape timbers and a woodpile, and that is where the carpenter ant colony lives before it sends a satellite nest into the wet sill or the carport beam; the frass pile is the sign. Dampwood termites nest only in wood that is already wet, so they follow the rot rather than cause it, and subterranean termites are uncommon on this side of the Cascades. A licensed pest company treats; we rebuild the wood and take away the damp.
T1-11 and hardboard rot from the bottom up, so the fix is a horizontal cut at sound wood, a Z-flashing in the cut, and a new piece below it with the grooves lined up and the bottom edge sealed. Filler and paint on a wicked edge last one winter. We prime every face, caulk the joint and paint to match, so the repair reads as original.
Get the gutters back on pitch and the downspouts away from the wall. Keep the soil, bark and lawn edge below the bottom of the siding. Set the carport and deck posts on standoffs, not in the concrete. Pull the ivy and the rhododendrons off the north wall. Repaint the sheet siding before the bottom edge bares.
Older lots with 1950s and 1960s ranches in cedar and hardboard, aluminum windows in wood bucks, and the original fascia. The bucks rot behind the metal, the bottom courses go at the splash line and the fascia goes under a gutter that lost its pitch. We rebuild the bucks, splice the courses and reset the drip edge.
Busy streets, patched houses and carports on posts. The carport post goes punky at the slab, the T1-11 on the addition wicks at the bottom edge and the side-door jamb crumbles at the step. We cut the sheet back, flash the cut, rebuild the post base on a standoff and splice the jamb.
Family streets from the 1960s to the 1980s with decks added later, often on ledgers that were never flashed. Deck boards go soft at the ends, railing posts rot at the base and the ledger behind the siding is the thing to check. We replace boards and posts and name a ledger problem before the deck is touched.
Hazel Dell is served from the Vancouver office across 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.
Hazel Dell is unincorporated, so Clark County is the permit office. The county lists painting and finish work as needing no permit, puts a window or siding replacement on a permit, and files minor repairs such as rot repair under its Alteration, Repair and Specialty permit. The state residential code the county builds on treats an ordinary repair as needing no application, and a spliced siding course, a window buck or a fascia board is that; a whole wall of new siding, a carport beam or a deck ledger is a question for the Permit Center on Franklin Street before the job, with the permit in the written scope when one applies.
On a Hazel Dell sale or refinance Washington requires 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. It names what was found by organism, and on a mid-century house that is usually wood decay fungi and carpenter ants, with the conducive conditions: earth against the siding, a dead gutter, a post set in the slab. The inspector reports and the pest company treats; we repair the damaged wood and the carpentry-side conditions, and the buyer gets the reinspection.
A whole new wall of siding in Washington has to go on over a water-resistive barrier with a way to drain, which makes a full re-side a permit and a different job from a like-for-like repair lapped into the paper already there. A deck added to a mid-century house without a flashed ledger is the other Hazel Dell rule worth knowing: the ledger gets looked at before the boards are replaced. Few of the older streets have an association; some of the newer ones do, and a repair painted to match rarely needs a form.
Can't find your answer? Call 360-347-2002 and ask us anything.
Call 360-347-2002A siding course, a window buck or a fascia board is priced on the call and usually scheduled within days from Park Plaza Drive. A carport, a deck or a whole wall gets a look first and a written scope. We do not name a finish date before the wood is open.
Yes, once a licensed pest company has treated the colony and the stump it came from. We cut out the hollowed sill, beam end or trim, rebuild it, and remove the wet wood that drew the ants. Treatment and the report are theirs; the rebuild is ours.
Yes. Post bases, window bucks, siding, fascia, jambs and deck boards are carpentry, and Kaminskiy is licensed, bonded and insured, so a splice into a stud or a rafter tail is fine too. A beam that carries the carport roof or a deck ledger gets named before anyone opens a wall.
How much of the sheet or the course has to come out once it is opened, the height, and whether the siding profile is still made; some 1960s patterns are not, and we show you the closest match first. Text a photo and the number is in writing before anything is scheduled.
Paint seals the water in, and a wicked edge keeps drinking from the splash. We cut the sheet back to sound wood, flash the cut, fit a new piece with the grooves lined up, seal the bottom edge and paint, so it stops wicking for good.
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 whole wall or anything into framing is a question we ask the Permit Center first, and the permit goes into the written scope.
All of Hazel Dell, including West Hazel Dell, the Highway 99 streets and NE Hazel Dell, plus Salmon Creek, Felida, Minnehaha, Lakeshore 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.
