Water Damage Assessment & Inspection in Richmond

Steveston houses are slab-on-grade, and a failed perimeter drain shows along the concrete edge and inside the garage. We meter the concrete at the wall, then a metre into the room, then at the garage door. The outside photo shows the grade on this flat, diked ground.

The moisture map records those distances and the floor covering that was hiding them. Vinyl and laminate come up only as far as we need to read the slab. A mud bed under tile gets a reading if we can reach an edge. Groundwater and a supply leak under the vinyl are different categories. The page says which inlet we can support.

Brighouse townhouses and the concrete suites nearby flood from a stack or from the home above. We meter your ceiling, the party wall, and the floor where water crossed a doorway. If the upstairs suite is locked, the moisture map names it and marks it unconfirmed. The category follows what came down.

Photos show the stain, the meter, and any active drip. A thermal camera traces the wet band across the gypsum when the paint is still flat. Parkade ramps under the same buildings are a separate area. If both the suite and the ramp are wet, you get two blocks on the map.

Seafair garages and Broadmoor slabs take water at the door and along the edge where the mud bed starts. Tile can look solid while the bed underneath is wet, and the water travels sideways until it shows at a doorway. We lift a corner or read an open edge, then we meter the concrete we can reach.

Photos of that corner, the meter, and the garage threshold go on the moisture map. The category is rain at the door, groundwater at the edge, or a fridge line under the vinyl. East Richmond bays get the same edge readings when a roof drain lets go onto a slab.

Hamilton and the city centre keep water in parkades and on ground-floor slabs when the storm system is full. We meter the ramp, the low stall, and the lobby threshold if water crossed it. Photos show the waterline on the concrete and the drain that should have taken it. The moisture map is those spots with readings.

The meter does the work on bare concrete. The category is storm water at the ramp, or a domestic line overhead. One-storey ranchers on the same visit are a ceiling job, because a low-slope roof has almost no attic to hold the leak. We map the lid that is actually wet.