Home Restoration Resources
5 Tips To Pass An Exterior Home Inspection
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One phase in selling your home is having your home inspected. This key piece of information can have a huge impact on the sale of your home. A home inspection that reveals exterior issues can derail a home sale. It can also slow down a sale until repairs can be made. Neither scenario bodes well for the seller.How Do You Properly Fix Dry Rot?
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Dry rot is a term that describes various stages of deterioration in wood which compromises its capacity to function properly in your home. Caused by a fungus that invades and feeds on moist or damp wood, dry rot can be more easily removed and the wood more readily repaired in its earlier stages.7 Tips To Protect Your Home from Water Damage
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Water damage represents one of the most prevalent kinds of home damage and ranks as the second most common household damage with home insurance claims. Costing billions of dollars annually, water damage impacts at least 1 in 50 homeowners each year.Please Donate Your Particulate Respirator Masks
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SFW Construction urges all Oregon and Washington construction and paint contractors to donate any respirator masks you may have in storage. Our medical and first responder personnel are working on the front lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic.Now Is The Time To Refinance Your Home
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A home mortgage refinance is a process that enables you to replace your existing mortgage loan agreement with a brand new agreement, based on new terms, including a new interest rate and payback period.Flashing Installed Incorrectly Can Cause Wood Rot
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As anyone who lives in the Pacific Northwest can attest, there’s a lot of rain! Due to the rain, we need to take special precautions to ensure our homes are waterproofed, keeping as much moisture outside as possible.How Dangerous Is Dry Rot?
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Dry rot is a widespread problem for homeowners in the Pacific Northwest. Often dry rot is hard to notice or detect because it tends to occur in the hidden inner structures of your home: beneath floorboards, inside crawl spaces, and behind walls.Rainiest January In Portland, Oregon
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Portland, Oregon saw the rainiest month in nearly 3 years and the rainest month of January since 2006 with 7.39 inches. While we may have adapted to the rain in the Pacific Northwest our houses still need work.Got Rot?
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Being in business since 2005, we often hear from clients that we are the only contractors who offered a lasting solution to water damage. Whether a customer has wood rot, a leaking window, window replacement, skylight repair, and/or other water damage occur to their house we are able to identify the targeted problem and solve the issue restoring your home to it's natural state or better.Exterior Targeted Home Repairs
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Targeted home repairs focus on the source of your problem, rather than the treatment of your problem. Many contractors will simply patch damaged siding with new siding, or worse sell you a complete re-siding project—and call it good. On the other hand, SFW Construction investigates the underlying symptoms, usually dry rot that caused the siding to fail in the first place.