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Palm Springs is a city of 1950s and 1960s doors: flat slab doors in post-and-beam Alexander tracts, original sliders in frames that have taken sixty summers, Spanish-era wood doors in the Movie Colony and Old Las Palmas. They warp on the west side, the finish bakes off, sand fills the tracks, and the hardware is the period's. We rehang, refinish, re-roller and install, and we keep the original where it can be saved.
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THE LISTALL DONEAll of it is routine for a Kaminskiy-certified technician who works Palm Springs every week from our Palm Desert office. One list, one call, priced in writing.
Priced and on the calendar during the first call.
A written quote you approve before anyone drives out.
One crew, truck stocked, warranty in writing.
A one-year workmanship warranty, in writing, on every Palm Springs job.
Post-and-beam tract houses from the late 1950s and 1960s, many on a slab, with flat or butterfly roofs, clerestory windows, tongue-and-groove ceilings and slab doors. Fascia at the roof edge checks and rots, doors warp, sliders wear, and a repair has to respect the house. We match the profile and the finish rather than cover them.
Spanish Revival and ranch homes from the 1920s through the 1950s, some of them designated historic, with plaster walls, wood windows and heavy wood doors in frames that settled long ago. Doors bind, plaster cracks reopen, trim rots at the soil line. We keep the original, splice new wood into old, and check the city's historic rules before the outside changes.
1970s and 1980s condominiums and later homes, most in associations, many owned part of the year. Sliders and French doors to the pool, shared patio covers and trellises, drywall and caulk inside, and the balcony carpentry where the units stack, done to the association's scheme with the scope in writing.
Sun, sand and age. Highs above 108 for months bake the finish off every west door and powder the caulk; the wind packs sand into tracks and thresholds; and much of the housing is sixty years old, built light and fast in the tract years, with original doors, sliders and fascia still in service. Add the months a house sits empty and the small repairs stack up.
Doors, sliders, drywall and plaster patches, stucco, gates, shade structures, rot, caulk and fixtures are handyman work. A roof, an electrical panel, a re-pipe, a gas line or anything structural goes to the licensed specialty trade, and we tell you on the call. Termite treatment is the licensed pest company's; we rebuild what they ate.
Describe the job or send photos and most Palm Springs repairs are priced on the call, in writing, before anything is scheduled. A rotted fascia run, a door that has to be refinished to match or a bathroom refresh gets a look and a written scope. The number you approve is the number on the invoice.
A 1958 slab door, a run of original tongue-and-groove fascia or a flat-finish wall is worth saving: planed, refinished and rehung, the door outlasts a hollow-core replacement and keeps the house honest. We patch flat walls flat, match the fascia profile, and tell you when a part is past saving and what the period-correct replacement is.
The sticking door, the drywall hole, the gate that drags. Call or text it over and we price it on the call, in writing.
Hinges, strikes, weatherstrip, anchors, compound, fasteners and the common parts ride on the truck, so one visit usually clears the list.
Anything that needs opening a wall, rebuilding a frame or matching a finish gets a look and a written price before we start.
We tidy up, walk you through what was done, and the one-year workmanship warranty is in writing.
A small repair under a set amount can be done in California without a license when no permit is needed and nobody is employed; the rest of a to-do list wants a licensed contractor. Kaminskiy Care and Repair holds License #1106209, is bonded and insured, and its technicians are Kaminskiy-certified and background checked, so a door swap, a fascia rebuild or a railing is inside the law with us. Jobs over the state's written-contract threshold are on paper before they start.
Palm Springs adopts the state residential code with its own amendments, and the amendments we could read are about fence and retaining wall heights, not repairs: the code's ordinary-repairs clause stands, so a rehung door, a patched wall, a rebuilt jamb or a run of fascia needs no application, and painting and finish work are exempt. Cutting a structural beam, changing an opening or touching wiring or plumbing is a permit, and we ask the Building and Safety department before a job near that line.
Palm Springs has hundreds of designated Class 1 historic sites, many of them houses, and a designated home cannot be altered on the outside without the city's certificate of approval; a like-for-like repair is how we work there, and anything visible goes to the city first. Homes built before 1978 may carry lead paint under the newer coats, which is the certified lead-safe painter's job; if a repair means disturbing an old painted surface we tell you first and work lead-safe around it.
Twenty minutes down Highway 111. Your Palm Springs crew dispatches from our Palm Desert office at 74-710 Highway 111, open every day, so most calls are scheduled within days. Call 760-284-6993, text photos, or send the form. The whole valley is on our Palm Desert handyman page.
Can't find your answer? Call 760-284-6993 and ask us anything.
Call 760-284-6993We answer in under three rings, price most repairs on the call and usually schedule within days from our office on Highway 111 in Palm Desert, twenty minutes away, seven days a week. For a second home we work from photos and a lockbox and send pictures when the list is done.
The price comes on the call, in writing, from your description or photos, before anything is scheduled. A fascia run, a door refinished to match or a bathroom refresh gets a look first and a written scope. What you approve is what you pay at the house.
Yes. The slab door, the slider, the hairline over the clerestory and the ceiling fan go on one list, and one Kaminskiy-certified technician with a stocked truck works through it. Special-order parts are scheduled before we leave.
Yes. Kaminskiy Care and Repair holds a California contractor license (License #1106209), is bonded and insured, and every technician is Kaminskiy-certified and background checked, with a one-year workmanship warranty in writing on every job.
Not ordinary repairs or finish work: the state residential code the city builds to asks no application for a rehung door, a patched wall or a rebuilt fascia board, and painting is exempt. A structural beam, a changed opening or wiring and plumbing is a permit, and a designated historic home needs the city's approval before the outside changes. We tell you on the call.
Almost always. A solid 1950s slab door, planed, refinished and rehung on new hardware, outlasts a new hollow-core door and keeps the house looking right. We replace only what is past saving and tell you what the period-correct replacement is.
Yes. A like-for-like repair that changes nothing visible is how we work on a designated home. Anything that would change the look of the outside goes to the city for its certificate of approval first, and we say so before we price it.
All of Palm Springs, including Twin Palms, Racquet Club Estates, Vista Las Palmas, Sunmor, Deepwell, the Movie Colony, Old Las Palmas, the Tennis Club, Indian Canyons and Demuth Park, plus Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage and Desert Hot Springs. Call 760-284-6993 to confirm your address.
Tell us the list, or text a photo, and we call back with a written price and a time. Calling is still faster: 760-284-6993.
Close to one of these but not on the list? Call anyway. If we can reach you, we will.
Ready to cross it off the list? Free quotes, a local Palm Springs crew, and a workmanship warranty on every job.
We answer in under three rings, 24/7.No price games. You get a clear written quote before any work begins, backed by our workmanship warranty.
