Water Damage Assessment & Inspection in Maple Ridge

Albion and Silver Valley houses take the storm through the well and along the uphill footing. We photograph the well and the grade, then we meter the wall from the floor up. The moisture map shows the uphill readings beside the downhill ones. A vaulted ceiling with a valley leak is a second block, because the paint mark sits low and the opening is higher.

The thermal camera covers the insulation we cannot reach in that vault. The well photo explains a basement that was dry at noon. Surface water is the category until a supply line adds a second inlet. We write both if both are wet.

Hammond houses sit closer to the Fraser, and a sump that died in a power cut is a cause we write in the first lines. We photograph the pit, note whether the pump has power now, and meter the slab from the pit outward. Fir upstairs gets a scan too.

The moisture map separates the groundwater event from a laundry hose or a tank in a closet. Those can meet concrete that was already holding moisture, and the category still follows today's inlet. Older chimney flashing is another path, into the attic. If the ceiling is wet and the pit is dry, the page says the roof.

Websters Corners lots and the rural edge hide water in crawls over bare soil, in outbuildings, and sometimes in a septic field that has surfaced. We open the hatch, pin the joists, and photograph the soil. The moisture map says whether a vapour barrier is there. An outbuilding that wets a shared wall gets its own readings on that wall.

Septic is a category question, and we ask it on these lots. If the inlet is municipal and the sump failed, we write that instead. Pumps on a well, and long feeds into a shed, can freeze and split. We only name that path if the fitting supports it.

Town Centre retail is a single level, so the lid you see is the roof. We meter it, photograph the stain and any drip, and use the thermal camera where insulation holds a cold plume past the paint. The moisture map lists bays. A flat roof drain and a leak from the unit beside you are different inlets.

The category follows what came in: rain from the roof, or a domestic line in the wall. Larger work bays out on Lougheed get that same split. We show which bay is wet and why we think so.