Water Damage Assessment & Inspection in Pitt Meadows

Downtown houses rely on the sump once the ditches are full. We photograph the pit, the discharge if we can see it, and the waterline on the block or the drywall. The meter reads the slab from the pit toward the stairs. The moisture map says whether the pump was winning when we arrived.

A hot-water tank or a washer in the same room is a second inlet, and it meets concrete that may already have been holding moisture. The category follows today's source. Small attics mean we also scan the ceiling if the roof is part of the call. There is little space up there for water to hide.

Bonson and Central Pitt Meadows footings sit close to that water table. We meter the slab edge, the bottom plate, and the baseboards, and we photograph the grade and the ditch. If the sump discharge was pumping into a line that was already full, the moisture map says the water was recycling.

Crawl spaces without a barrier get the hatch opened and the joists pinned. Open ground under the joists keeps feeding the damp, and the photo has to show it. Water that starts clear can pick up silt once it has moved across the room. We write the category from what we found.

Harris Road shops are low, and the door is the inlet when the street cannot shed water. We photograph the threshold and the sidewalk grade, then we meter the floor inside. A flat roof is the other inlet, and the ceiling gets its own bay readings and a thermal image if the insulation is hiding a plume.

The moisture map keeps grade water and roof water apart, with a category for each. Stock and drywall both get listed if both got wet. The page is the door, the lid, and the numbers. A landlord or a tenant can forward that inspection.

Meadow Gardens houses have modest attics, so a valley or a flashing leak wets the lid and the upper wall in the same hour. We meter both, and we photograph the stain before anyone wipes it. The thermal camera helps where the hatch is too tight to crawl the insulation.

The moisture map lists the bays we could reach. The Pitt Polder edge, if that is the lot, adds the groundwater note: sump, ditch, and slab edge. A roof category and a footing category stay separate. Photos make the two inlets obvious.