Water Damage Assessment & Inspection in West Vancouver

Ambleside and Dundarave houses lose older copper and long hot-water runs inside walls that look fine. We scan from the stain or the soft spot outward until the numbers fall. The pin meter confirms the peak. The moisture map lists those bays and the rooms the water crossed, because these floors run long.

Photos show the meter and the blister, plus the fitting if an access panel lets us see it. The category is clean supply water when the line is the inlet. A pump failure in the mechanical room is a different note, written only if that closet is the source. The page keeps the two apart.

British Properties and Sentinel Hill lower levels are finished into the slope, with millwork that hides the uphill wall. We meter the face of the wood and, where we can, the cavity behind it. A pretty panel can read dry on the skin and wet on the back. The moisture map says which side we measured.

The outside photo shows the uphill drain and the well or the window at grade. Surface water there gets its own category line. If the millwork has to come out later, that is a repair decision the map supports. On this visit we record readings.

Caulfeild skylights and multi-valley roofs drop water into a ceiling that is not always under the hole. Wind-driven rain on this slope finds the curb and the head of a tall window. We meter the stain and the bays beside it, and the thermal camera covers the vault we cannot reach with a pin.

Photos of the ceiling and the camera screen go on the moisture map with a note about which roof plane the pattern suggests. We name a plane only when the readings support it. A flat roof over a wing and a skylight over the stair are different inlets. They get different lines if both are wet.

Horseshoe Bay walls take wind-driven rain, and the wet gypsum is often at the outside corner rather than under a bathroom. We meter that corner, the window head, and the floor below if water ran down the cavity. The outside photo shows the exposure. The moisture map ties the high readings to that wall.

A lower level on the same lot still gets the uphill-wall grid if the grade is sending water there too. Those are two inlets. The category follows whichever inlet we can stand behind with a photo and a number.