Home Repairs & Wood Rot in Beaumont, TX

What should you know about home repairs and wood rot here?

Some jobs are too small for a remodeler and too big for a weekend: the door that will not close, the soft spot in the floor by the tub, the fascia board the woodpeckers found, the list the home inspector left you three days before closing. Rocha's General Construction handles home repairs, wood rot and termite damage repair across Beaumont, Hardin County and the rest of the upper Gulf Coast.

Small jobs get the same written estimate and the same care as big ones.

What goes into a home repair?

Wood rot is the most common repair in Southeast Texas, and it is not close. Rain is heavy across Jefferson County and Orange County, the humidity stays high, and wood that gets wet does not dry out. Rot shows up in the same places on almost every house: the bottom of door jambs and brick molding, window sills, fascia behind gutters, the lowest course of siding, porch posts and the ends of deck boards.

Fixing rot the right way means cutting back to solid wood, finding why it got wet, and correcting that. Sometimes the fix is a missing kick-out flashing at the roof. Sometimes it is a gutter that overflows, a sprinkler aimed at the wall, or a door with no drip cap. We replace the damaged wood with primed or rot-resistant material and seal the ends, so the repair outlasts the original.

Termite damage. Formosan termites swarm across the region in spring, and eastern subterranean termites are active year round. They follow moisture, so rot and termite damage often show up together. Treatment is the job of a licensed pest control company, and it should happen first. After treatment, we open walls and floors as needed, replace damaged studs, plates, sills and trim, and put the house back together.

Homes that took water in Harvey in 2017 or Imelda in 2019 often hide rot and soft framing where the rebuild was rushed. We see it most in houses that were closed up before the walls were fully dry.

Floors. A soft spot near a tub, toilet or dishwasher in an older pier-and-beam home usually means rotted subfloor, and sometimes a joist. We cut out the bad section, sister or replace joists, and install new subfloor. Leveling a whole house is foundation work, and we refer that to a foundation specialist.

Doors. Sticking and dragging doors are common in houses on our clay soil, which moves between wet and dry seasons. We plane, rehang or reframe doors, replace jambs, and install new prehung units.

Inspection repairs. Buyers and sellers across the Golden Triangle get repair lists from their inspector. We price and complete the carpentry, sheetrock, roof and exterior items, and give you a written invoice for your agent. Electrical, plumbing and HVAC items go to licensed contractors; we coordinate with licensed trades when you want one point of contact.

Rental turns. Landlords from Port Arthur to Lumberton call for punch lists between tenants: doors, trim, patches, paint, and small floor repairs.

Many homes here were built before 1978. On older painted trim and siding, we talk through lead paint before we cut or sand.

Materials and methods

Primed finger-joint and PVC trim, rot-resistant brick molding and jamb kits, prehung interior and exterior doors, pressure-treated sills and framing lumber, subfloor plywood, exterior caulk and primer, flashing and drip caps, sheetrock and joint compound, oscillating multi-tools, moisture meter, trim saw and finish nailers.

How does a home repair run?

1. 01

   Send us photos or a list, or the inspection report if you have one. We visit, confirm the scope, and look for the cause of any rot.

2. 02

   You get a written estimate, item by item, so you can choose what to fix now.

3. 03

   We schedule the work and bring the materials.

4. 04

   Damaged material comes out, the cause gets corrected, and new material goes in, primed and sealed.

5. 05

   We patch, caulk and paint as scoped, clean up, and give you photos of each repair.

Why hire Rocha's General Construction?

We take small jobs. A lot of contractors do not, and that leaves homeowners with a list that never gets done.

We fix the cause, not just the board. And we give you a written price and photos, which matters when an inspection repair has to be shown to a buyer, a lender or an agent before closing. Our office is in Groves, close to Beaumont, and we are easy to reach.