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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 Irvine and the surrounding California communities.
Our office is on Michelson Drive. A new vanity, a surround and a shower door lead the Irvine bathroom list.
A refresh keeps the room where it is and replaces what has failed: a new vanity and top, a tub or shower surround, a shower door, faucets and a toilet, grab bars, an exhaust fan, the tile and caulk around them, then paint. New products go in; caulk and grout alone is never the whole job, it comes with the fixture or surround work. From our office on Michelson Drive the crew does a Woodbridge hall bath or a Portola Springs master in one written scope.
AFTERBEFOREEvery one of these is part of one refresh for a Kaminskiy-certified technician who starts the day on Michelson Drive. One list, one written scope, one schedule.
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 Irvine bathroom job.
The water and the age. Irvine Ranch Water District's 2026 report lists total hardness between twelve and a half and seventeen grains per gallon, which is hard water by any scale, so scale builds on every fixture, every glass panel and every valve cartridge. Add a bathroom from the 1970s or 1980s that is on its first vanity, its first surround and its first fan, and the room looks tired long before the house does. A refresh replaces the parts the water has beaten and leaves the tub and the tile that still hold.
If the tub, the toilet and the sink stay where they are, it is a refresh and it is ours: vanity, top, surround, door, faucets, toilet, grab bars, fan, tile and caulk repair, paint. If you want the shower where the tub is, a wall moved, a drain relocated or the room enlarged, that is a remodel for a remodeling contractor with plans and a plan-check permit, and we say so on the first call rather than halfway through the job.
In California, Kaminskiy Care and Repair holds a general building (B) contractor license, which covers a job that needs two or more unrelated trades. A bathroom refresh is that job, so our crew sets the faucet, the toilet, the valve trim and the vanity trap as part of it, and swaps the fan on its existing switch and wiring. A fixture swap on its own, a water heater, a re-pipe, a moved drain or any work behind the wall goes to a licensed plumber; a new circuit, a panel or new wiring goes to a licensed electrician. We schedule them when the job needs them and tell you up front.
Most Irvine bathroom damage is a vent problem before it is a plumbing problem. A fan that moves little air, or dumps into the attic, leaves the ceiling wet after every shower, and the paint, the drywall and the caulk pay for it. When we are in the room for the vanity or the door, we check that the fan is ducted outside and sized for the room, reset the toilet on a new seal if it rocks, and run the caulk line with a product made for a wet wall. The refresh lasts as long as the room stays dry.
Irvine's first villages went up from the late 1960s through the 1980s, and Huntington Beach filled in a decade earlier, when its population grew nearly tenfold in the 1960s. These are the bathrooms with a cast iron tub under a wall of original tile, a flat builder vanity with a cultured marble top, a framed shower door and a fan that was never vented well. The tile holds; the grout, the caulk, the vanity bottom and the hardware do not. Near the sand, salt air pits chrome and corrodes the door track. A refresh here is a new vanity and top, a new door, new fixtures and a vented fan, with the tile repaired around them.
Mission Viejo was mostly complete by 1980 and Laguna Niguel built out from its first tracts in 1962 through the 1990s, so these are the fiberglass tub surround, oak vanity and brass fixture bathrooms of the 1970s and 1980s. The surrounds yellow and crack at the corners, the oak doors swell, the brass pits, and the hillside slabs have settled enough to open the caulk line at the tub. We set a new surround over sound backing, a new vanity and top, a glass door and new valve trim, and reseal the whole run.
The youngest homes in the county have good builder tile and frameless glass, and the parts around them are what fail: the door seals and sweeps, the caulk at every joint, the toilet flange bolts, the pop-up drains the hard water seizes. Newport Beach is the other end of the scale, with Balboa Peninsula and Corona del Mar cottages going back a century and salt air on every finish. In both we replace the fixtures and the door hardware, swap the fan, recaulk the glass and repair the tile where it was cut badly the first time.
Call 714-844-1582 or text photos of the vanity, the surround, the door and the fan. Most refresh work is scoped from the pictures and a few questions about the age of the house and the village.
A technician from Michelson Drive measures the room, checks the subfloor at the toilet and the backing behind the surround, and you get a written scope with the products named before anything is ordered.
The vanity, top, surround, door, fixtures, fan and tile repair go on one schedule with one crew. Where the job needs a licensed plumber or electrician, we book them into that schedule so you are not calling three companies.
The old vanity and surround leave with us, the room is cleaned, the water is tested at every fixture, and the one-year workmanship warranty is written into the paperwork.
California lets a repair under one thousand dollars, labor and materials together, be done without a license when it needs no permit and the person employs nobody to help; that is the state's minor work exemption. Everything else, a vanity, a surround, a door, a set of fixtures, wants a licensed contractor. Kaminskiy Care and Repair holds License #1106209, a general building (B) license, which the state defines as a job needing two or more unrelated trades. A bathroom refresh is that job, so the fixture plumbing and the fan swap inside it are ours; a plumbing-only job, a re-pipe or a new circuit goes to the licensed plumber or licensed electrician we schedule.
Irvine's own list of work that needs no permit covers painting and similar finish work, same-dimension replacement doors, and the removal and reinstallation or replacement of toilets and sinks when no valves, pipes or fixtures are rearranged. A vanity, a surround, a shower door and a toilet swap sit on that side. A fan or light on new wiring, or a faucet on a new valve, needs the city's small miscellaneous residential permit, which a licensed contractor pulls online through PermitsDIRECT and which covers up to four plumbing fixtures and ten electrical fixtures without plans. The city files a minor bathroom remodel separately through IrvineReady, with a two business day target. Any permit on a single-family home in Irvine also brings the state's low-flow fixture rule for the whole house, so we check the showerheads and faucets before we file.
Every Irvine village has an association, and the city's permit page itself says to check your CC&Rs before a project. Inside a detached home the bathroom is yours. In the Woodbridge, Westpark and Northwood attached homes, and in any condominium, the association usually wants notice before the building's water is shut off, sets work hours, and has a say in anything that touches a shared wall or the common drain stack. California's Davis-Stirling Act requires an association to decide a request in writing, in good faith, within a stated maximum time. We give you the scope and the product list so the notice is a five-minute job.
Our office is in Irvine. The Orange County office on Michelson Drive, near Jamboree and the 405, is where the crew starts the day, so an Irvine call is usually on the calendar within days. Call 714-844-1582, text a photo, or send the form.
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Call 714-844-1582Usually not. If the tub, the toilet and the sink stay where they are, a refresh replaces what has failed: the vanity and top, the surround, the shower door, the faucets and toilet, the fan, the tile and caulk around them, and the paint. A remodel is for moving the shower, a wall or a drain, and that goes to a remodeling contractor with plans. We tell you which one you have on the first call.
In California our general building (B) license covers the fixture plumbing inside a job with two or more trades, and a bathroom refresh is that job, so our crew sets the faucet, the toilet, the valve trim and the vanity trap. A plumbing-only job, a water heater, a re-pipe or a moved drain goes to a licensed plumber we schedule into the same week. Electrical beyond swapping the fan on its existing wiring goes to a licensed electrician.
A vanity, fixtures and a fan are a day. A surround or a shower door adds a day or two, mostly for the caulk and the adhesive to cure before the shower runs. The written scope gives you the days before we start, and in a one-bathroom home we plan the order so the toilet is back the same evening.
It depends on what is replaced and what you choose: a stock vanity and a framed door price very differently from a custom top and frameless glass. Text photos and the price comes in writing after the look, with each product named, before anything is ordered. What you approve is what you pay.
Not for a vanity, a surround, a shower door, paint or a toilet or sink swap on the existing connections; those are on the city's own no-permit list. A fan or light on new wiring, or a faucet on a new valve, takes a small residential permit that we pull online as a licensed contractor. Any permit on a single-family home also brings the state's low-flow fixture rule, and we check the house for it first.
Inside a detached home, no. In an attached home or a condominium the association usually wants notice before the water is shut off, has work hours, and reviews anything touching a shared wall or the common drain. We give you the scope and product list so the notice is quick, and the law requires the association to answer in writing within its stated time.
Yes. Every Irvine bathroom job carries a one-year workmanship warranty in writing, on top of the manufacturer's warranty on the vanity, the door, the fixtures and the fan. If a caulk line opens or a door drags inside that year, we come back.
All of Irvine from our Michelson Drive office, including Woodbridge, Northwood, Turtle Rock, University Park, Westpark, Woodbury and Portola Springs, plus Tustin, Lake Forest, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Mission Viejo and Laguna Niguel across Orange County. Call 714-844-1582 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: 714-844-1582.
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.
