Water damage repair in Burlingame

Rain, old siding and Burlingame interior water damage

The General Plan says Burlingame's 1910s and 1920s Craftsman and vernacular homes were typically built of wood shingles, wood siding, stucco, or a mix. Those skins age differently. Shingles split, siding joints open, and stucco cracks around windows, and winter rain follows the gap inside. The first sign is often a stain under a window or a bubble in the paint below the sill.

We aren't the ones to stop the water; a roofer, a siding contractor or a plumber does that, and a mitigation company dries big soaks. Once it's dry, text photos of the damage and we'll rebuild: new drywall, insulation, trim, texture and paint. A street debris box needs a Burlingame encroachment permit and, from October 15 to April 15, a lid or cover.

Worth knowing about Burlingame

• The eastern part of Burlingame sits in a very high liquefaction zone on young alluvial soils prone to settlement, which the City's EIR links to cracked walls and foundations.
• Burlingame's General Plan describes older neighborhoods full of 1910s and 1920s Craftsman and vernacular homes, 1920s Tudors and Mediterraneans, and postwar ranch and Eichler homes mainly at the north end.
• Almost 30% of Burlingame's 13,798 housing units (29.6%) were built in 1939 or earlier, more than in any later decade; 79.3% predate 1980.