BBBAccredited Business
Kaminskiy Care and Repair handles bathroom repairs and refresh remodels with one crew on one schedule, from fixtures and caulk to vanities and tile. You get a written scope and price before work begins. We serve Palm Desert and the surrounding California communities.
Our office is on Highway 111. Hard-water scale and a house shut all summer lead the list.
A Palm Desert bathroom refresh is a new vanity and top, a tub or shower surround, a shower door, new faucets and a toilet, grab bars set into solid backing, an exhaust fan that clears the mirror, tile and caulk repair and paint. New products go in; caulk and grout alone is never the whole job. The valley's hard water and a house shut from May to October decide most of the list, and we do the work while you are away, from our office on Highway 111.
AFTERBEFOREEvery one of these is routine for a Kaminskiy-certified technician who starts the day on Highway 111. Text photos of the room, and the scope and the price come in writing before anyone drives out.
Priced and on the calendar during the first call.
A written scope you approve before anyone drives out.
One crew, the whole list, warranty in writing.
A one-year workmanship warranty, in writing, on every Palm Desert bathroom job.
The water does most of it. Coachella Valley well water carries calcium and magnesium, and the district's own table runs from soft to very hard depending on the well that feeds your street. It leaves scale on shower glass, chokes aerators and shower heads, stiffens valve cartridges and shortens toilet fill valves. Then the house sits shut from May to October: caulk and grout dry out and crack, traps and wax rings dry, and the first flush of the season finds the leak.
If the tub, the toilet and the vanity are staying where they are, it is a refresh: new vanity and top, surround, door, faucets, toilet, fan, grab bars, tile and caulk repair and paint, on one schedule, in days. If the layout has to change, a drain has to move or a wall comes out, that is a remodel for a remodeling contractor, and we say so on the first call rather than sell you half of one.
California's general building license covers a job that needs two or more unrelated trades, and a bathroom refresh is exactly that: carpentry, tile, fixture connections and paint. So our technicians connect the faucet, the toilet and the vanity trap as part of the job, and hang the fan on the existing duct and circuit. A repipe, a moved drain or a plumbing-only call goes to a licensed plumber; a new circuit or panel work goes to a licensed electrician, and we tell you which on the call.
Run the fan during and after showers, squeegee the glass, wipe the caulk line, and soak the aerators in vinegar twice a season. Fix a running toilet the week it starts; in this water a bad fill valve wastes more than money. For a seasonal home, have the house manager run every fixture once a month so the traps stay full, and send us the list in September so the room is ready when you land.
Homes from the 1950s through the 1970s: original tile set in a mortar bed, a cast iron tub, a three-handle shower valve and a vanity the size of a nightstand. The refresh here is a new surround over the sound tub, a pressure-balanced valve, a wider vanity and top, a fan where there was only a window, and grab bars into the studs. We keep what is solid and replace what is not.
Villas and stacked condominiums from the late 1970s through the 1990s, many of them empty all summer. Builder cultured-marble tops and tub surrounds, dull brass-era fixtures, framed shower doors with worn sweeps and scale on the glass. The refresh goes in while the house is empty, the water shutoff is arranged with the association where units share a stack, and the scope goes in writing for the house manager and the board.
Stucco homes from the 1990s and 2000s: oak builder vanities with the finish lifting at the sink, cultured marble that has yellowed, builder-grade fans ducted into the attic, scale in every cartridge. The job is a new vanity and top, a door with new seals, a quieter fan on the existing duct, grab bars and a comfort-height toilet for a 55-plus bath, and the water-saving fixtures the state now expects.
Call 760-284-6993 or text photos of the vanity, the tub or shower, the door and the fan. Most Palm Desert refreshes are scoped from photos, and a seasonal owner can send them from anywhere.
One visit to check the valve, the floor at the toilet, the backing for grab bars and where the fan duct goes. You get a written scope and price, with the products named, and nothing starts until you approve it.
One crew does the whole list in days, not weeks. Water goes off only at the times you approve, the association is told where the stack is shared, and a seasonal owner gets photos as the work goes in.
The room is cleaned, the old fixtures hauled away, and the one-year workmanship warranty is in writing. For a seasonal home, the finished photos reach you before you fly in.
California lets anyone take a casual repair job under one thousand dollars for labor and materials together, as long as it needs no building permit and nobody is hired to help. A bathroom refresh crosses that line on the vanity alone, so the state wants a licensed contractor. A general building contractor may take a job that needs two or more unrelated trades, which a refresh does, and the fixture connections and the fan on the existing circuit come with it. Kaminskiy Care and Repair holds a California contractor license (License #1106209), carries the insurance, and puts every job over the state's written-contract threshold on paper before it starts. A repipe or a plumbing-only call is a licensed plumber's job; a new circuit is a licensed electrician's.
Palm Desert adopts the 2025 state residential and plumbing codes and amends neither exemption list, so the state rules stand. Painting, tiling, cabinets and counter tops are exempt finish work, and so is a shower door in the same opening. The plumbing code exempts leak repair, clearing a stoppage and resetting a toilet, but not a new fixture, so a new toilet, faucet or vanity trap inside the city is a counter plumbing permit question we settle with the Permit Center before the job; in the county pockets, Bermuda Dunes and Sun City Palm Desert, the county's own list says a faucet or toilet replacement needs no permit. A fan replaced on its existing duct and circuit is minor work; a new duct through the roof or new wiring is a permit. Moving a drain or a wall is a full permit and a remodel. And whenever a permit is pulled, state law requires every old high-flow toilet, shower head and faucet in the house to be replaced with water-conserving ones.
Much of Palm Desert lives behind a gate with an architectural committee. A bathroom refresh is interior work and rarely needs the committee at all; the association usually wants a certificate of insurance, its work hours kept, and notice before the water goes off where units share a stack. Anything that shows outside, a vent cap through the roof or a new window in the shower wall, goes to the committee first, and California requires its decision in writing. For a seasonal owner we work through the house manager and send photos.
Our office is on Highway 111. The Palm Desert crew starts the day at 74-710 Highway 111, in the middle of the valley, which is why a bathroom scoped from your photos is usually on the calendar within days, seven days a week. Call 760-284-6993, text a photo, or send the form.
Can't find your answer? Call 760-284-6993 and ask us anything.
Call 760-284-6993Usually not. If the tub, toilet and vanity stay where they are, a refresh does the job: new vanity and top, surround, shower door, faucets, toilet, fan, grab bars, tile and caulk repair and paint. If the layout has to change or a drain has to move, that is a remodel for a remodeling contractor, and we tell you on the first call.
Our technicians connect the new faucet, toilet and vanity trap as part of the refresh, under our California general building license, which covers a job of two or more trades. A repipe, a moved drain or a plumbing-only call is a licensed plumber's job, and we say so. The fan goes on the existing duct and circuit; a new circuit is a licensed electrician's.
A fixture or door swap, hours. A full refresh, a few days, on a written schedule, with water off only at the times you approve. For a seasonal home the room is finished while you are away.
Yes, and it is how most Palm Desert refreshes happen. Send photos from wherever you are, approve the written scope, and we work through your house manager or the gate. Photos come as the work goes in and when it is done.
It depends on the vanity, the surround and the door you choose, so we price it in writing from your photos and one look, with the products named, before anything is scheduled. The price you approve is the price at the house.
Interior work rarely goes to the architectural committee. The association usually wants our insurance certificate, its work hours kept, and notice before the water goes off where units share a stack; we handle that. A vent cap through the roof or a new window goes to the committee first, and we put the materials in writing for it.
Yes. Every Palm Desert bathroom job carries a one-year workmanship warranty, in writing, and is done by a Kaminskiy-certified, background checked technician. The products carry their makers' warranties on top.
All of Palm Desert from our office on Highway 111, including Palma Village, Shadow Mountain, Bighorn, Ironwood, Indian Ridge, Desert Willow and University Park, plus Rancho Mirage, Indian Wells, La Quinta, Bermuda Dunes and Sun City Palm Desert. Call 760-284-6993 to confirm your address.
Tell us what the bathroom needs. We'll call you back with a price and a time. Calling is still the fastest way: 760-284-6993.
A written scope first, the whole list on one schedule, warranted in writing.
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.
