Water Damage Assessment & Inspection in North Vancouver

Lynn Valley daylight basements and the Capilano slope houses beside them hold water at the retaining wall. We meter that uphill wall from the floor to the window line, then we meter the downhill side so the map has a comparison. The outside photo shows the well, the culvert, and the grade.

Surface water that picked up soil gets a category note that says so. A sewer backup is a different line, and on this hill a well or a stair is the inlet we see more often. The thermal camera finds the cold cavity behind the finished wall. The moisture map is that wall.

Deep Cove and Edgemont roofs take rain at skylights and at the head of a tall wall of glass. The paint mark on a vault collects low. The wet insulation is often higher, toward the curb or the valley. We meter what we can reach and we use the thermal camera for the bay we cannot touch without a lift.

Photos show the stain, the camera screen, and the skylight if it is visible from the floor. The moisture map says which bays read wet and which were out of reach. An outside wall photo belongs with the ceiling notes when the path starts at the glass.

Lower Lonsdale condos move water through a stack, a corridor, or a parkade, and the suite below gets the ceiling stain. We meter your lid in a grid and the floor if it travelled past the wall. The moisture map names the suite above when we know it, and it says unconfirmed when the door stayed shut.

Photos of the drip and the meter are what a strata council can read later. The category follows the stack: supply water, a washer, or a drain. A podium roof drain is its own inlet if the stain sits under the deck. We keep those paths in different sentences.

Norgate and the older lower grid still back up at a floor drain when the lateral surcharges. That is a different visit from a Lynn Valley well. We photograph the drain, the waterline, and the laundry standpipe. The category is dirty water when that is the inlet, and the moisture map says so in the first lines.

The meter walks the slab and the bottom plate so you can see the spread. Crawl spaces under mid-century houses on this grid get the hatch opened and the joists pinned. If both the drain and the crawl are wet, both go on the page.