Water Damage Restoration in New Westminster

Clean, short water on original fir is worth a real dry and, later, a sanding if the wood moved only a little. Basement laminate over a damp slab is not a save. A Sapperton floor-drain backup takes the bottom of the plaster and any soft finish it touched. The upstairs fir might never have gotten wet. We meter before we condemn a floor.

A small upstairs leak in a character house becomes a plaster lid that wants to drop. We take the wet part down on purpose, dry the lath bay, and patch. Dormers, chimneys, and flat apartment roofs are the usual sources. Scoring and matching plaster is the repair. Covering the stain is how it comes back brown.

Same-day rain loads window wells and basement stairs on the downtown hill. The river flats add groundwater the next day. Those are different drying problems. Hill stone and early concrete stay cold. Lower apartments flood from a corridor stack and dry as concrete, not as a crawl space.

Retail and older apartment basements used as storage need contents decisions as much as board. We document what was wet, what was sewage versus supply, and what can go back. A stack that serves the floors above has to be named in the file or the restore fails twice.