Water Damage Assessment & Inspection in Port Coquitlam

Citadel Heights and Oxford Heights push runoff into the well and along the uphill wall. We meter that wall in a grid and we photograph the well and the driveway grade. The downhill side gets a comparison reading so the moisture map shows where the water sat.

The thermal camera finds the cold gypsum beside the glass when the paint still looks even. Surface water is the category until a pipe says otherwise. If a sump on the hill is stuck, we note whether it was running, seized, or unplugged. That line changes the story.

Mary Hill and central Port Coquitlam basements still back up at the floor drain when the lateral surcharges. We photograph the drain, the waterline, and the laundry standpipe, because a hose and a backup are different categories. The moisture map starts with that inlet, then the meter walks the slab and the bottom plate.

Carpet and pad get a reading at the tack strip. If the laundry riser was the route, we say so. Thermal images help under panelling. A supply burst caught the same day is cleaner water, and we write that only when the pipe is the source.

Riverwood lots sit low, and the sump is what stands between the footing and the floor. We photograph the pit, the discharge line if we can see it, and the waterline on the wall. The meter reads the slab from the pit outward. The moisture map says whether the pump was keeping up when we arrived.

Groundwater here can look clear and still differ from a hot-water tank. We write the inlet we can see. If the discharge was full and the pump was recycling into the basement, that leads the page.

Lincoln Park and the other low streets deal with a water table that the hill neighbourhoods do not share. We meter the footing, the slab edge, and any baseboard that has swollen, and we photograph the grade outside. The moisture map shows the distance from the wall to the last high reading.

A ceiling valley over a foyer is a separate block if that stain is also wet. Leaks from the bath overhead land in the hallway lid, and the bath floor often reads higher than the lid beneath it. We meter both. Those categories stay on different lines.