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Kaminskiy Care and Repair is a licensed, insured handyman company whose background checked employees handle the whole home to do list, doors first. Calls are answered in under three rings, and most jobs are priced and scheduled in under 10 minutes. We serve Bay Area and the surrounding California communities.
One Peninsula crew, Foster City to Palo Alto. The Saturday list, one visit, a licensed contractor on the truck.
On the Peninsula a door fails for one of two reasons. On the fog side the pre-war wood doors of San Mateo Park and Professorville swell shut every winter and rot at the bottom rail under paint that still looks fine; on the bayside fill of Foster City and Redwood Shores the house settles every year until the entry door scrapes the jamb and the slider jumps its track. We plane and rehang, splice the rail, true the frame, re-roller the slider, and take the rest of the list.
Each of these is a short job for a Kaminskiy-certified technician out of Redwood Shores, and together they are one visit. Make the list, call once.
Priced and on the calendar during the first call.
A written quote you approve before anyone drives out.
One crew, the whole list, warranty in writing.
A one-year workmanship warranty, in writing, on every Bay Area repair.
A Peninsula call is a list: the swelling door, the drywall crack over it, the fan, the gate, the caulk, the towel bar, the termite report's small items. Read it to us or text photos and the whole list is priced together, in writing, and one Kaminskiy-certified technician with a stocked truck clears it in one visit from Redwood Shores. A part we have to order is scheduled before we leave.
Every item gets its own line and the total is in writing before anything goes on the calendar, so you can see each piece and take one off. A rotted frame, a beam end or a bathroom item gets a look first and a written scope, and any job over the state's written-contract threshold goes on paper before it starts. What you approve is what you pay, and the one-year workmanship warranty is on the invoice.
The six Peninsula cities agree that painting, patching, caulking, a rehung door and the inside list need no permit, and the state code asks no application for an ordinary repair that cuts no wall, beam or load-bearing support. They part ways past that: Palo Alto, Foster City and San Carlos want a permit on every window or door replacement, San Mateo issues the rot, siding and window permits over the counter, and Menlo Park and Redwood City follow the state code. We check the city before we quote and tell you what it said.
A roof, an electrical panel, a repipe or a gas line goes to the licensed plumber or electrician, a beam that carries the roof goes to the engineer, and we tell you so on the call. Termite treatment is the licensed pest company's; the Section 1 carpentry is ours. A fan or a fixture swapped on its existing box and supply is on our list; a new circuit or a new line is the licensed trade's.
Wood-sided houses from the 1900s to the 1940s with lath and plaster, original windows and doors, and porches that face the afternoon fog. The list is a door that swells shut, a sash with a broken cord, a plaster crack over the arch, a porch board, a bottom rail rotting under sound paint, a cabinet door off its hinge. We ease and splice, keep the profile, patch and match, and leave the house looking like itself.
Ranches, townhomes and condos from the 1960s to the 1980s on engineered fill behind levees and lagoons, where the ground settles unevenly and the house keeps adjusting. The list is doors that drift out of square, drywall cracks over the openings, slab-edge trim pulling away, a lagoon-side railing on the association's inspection list, bath fixtures and the condo unit items. We true the doors, patch and match, set the fixtures and rebuild the carpentry the report flags.
Eichlers and the ranch tracts of the same decades, with exposed beam ends, floor-to-ceiling sliders, T1-11 siding and fascia behind the gutters, on radiant slabs that are never drilled blind. The list is slider rollers, a beam end gone gray, a scupper stain inside, a fascia board, a closet system, a towel bar into a slab wall, all rebuilt to the original profile and the lines the city's guidelines expect.
Call 855-695-1195 or text a photo of each item, with the city. Most lists are priced on the call, line by line, in writing.
The list comes back with a price on every line and a date, and a job over the state's written-contract threshold is signed before it starts.
A Kaminskiy-certified technician arrives from Redwood Shores with rollers, hinges, anchors, compound, caulk, fixtures and paint and works the list top to bottom.
We walk the list with you, note what the next wet winter will test, and the one-year workmanship warranty goes on the invoice.
California lets an unlicensed person take a job only when the whole price, labor and materials, is under one thousand dollars, the work needs no building permit, nobody is employed to help, and nothing about the business says contractor. A Peninsula list clears that line fast: a window permit in Palo Alto, a rot rebuild, a deck railing. Kaminskiy Care and Repair is a licensed California contractor (License #1120648), bonded and insured, with Kaminskiy-certified, background-checked technicians, and every job over the state's written-contract threshold is signed before it starts.
San Mateo's Building Division says a permit is required for any construction, repair, improvement or modification, then exempts painting and similar finish work, rear fences to seven feet and front fences to three, and small detached decks, and issues over-the-counter permits for most termite repair, stucco or siding repair, exterior stair repair and window replacement. Palo Alto, Foster City and San Carlos exempt finish work and fences under their height limits and ask for a permit on every window or door replacement, Palo Alto on any attached deck as well. Menlo Park and Redwood City stay with the state code, which asks no application for an ordinary repair as long as no wall, beam or load-bearing support is cut. A patched wall, a rehung door, a spliced sill or a repainted trim run is that; a new window, a rebuilt deck or framing is a permit, and we say which before the price.
Most Peninsula single-family streets have no association, but Foster City and Redwood Shores are largely townhome and condo communities, and their boards carry California's balcony inspection law: an engineer or architect inspects the decks, balconies, stairs and railings, and the carpentry the report flags is our lane, scoped in writing for the board. Professorville is a national historic district and Palo Alto's Eichler tracts follow the city's design guidelines, so an exterior change there keeps the original look; a repair painted to match rarely needs a form, a new door style or color usually does.
Our Peninsula office is in Redwood Shores. Your Peninsula crew works out of 303 Twin Dolphin Drive in Redwood Shores, off Highway 101 between San Mateo and Palo Alto, which is why a Peninsula call can usually be scheduled within days. Call 855-695-1195, text a photo, or send the form.
Can't find your answer? Call 855-695-1195 and ask us anything.
Call 855-695-1195That is how Peninsula homeowners use us. The swelling door, the drywall crack over it, the fan, the side gate, the bathroom caulk and the towel bar go on one list, priced by the line, and one Kaminskiy-certified technician with a stocked truck clears it in one visit from Redwood Shores. A part we do not carry is ordered before we leave.
A roof, an electrical panel, a repipe or a gas line, which go to the licensed plumber or electrician; a beam that carries the roof, which goes to the engineer; and termite treatment, which is the licensed pest company's. We tell you who to call. Doors, drywall, trim, siding and fascia repairs, fences and gates, fixtures and fans on their existing box and supply, caulk, shelving and paint are ours.
Our office is on Twin Dolphin Drive in Redwood Shores, off Highway 101 in the middle of the territory, so San Mateo, Foster City, San Carlos, Redwood City, Menlo Park and Palo Alto are a short run up or down the freeway. We answer in under three rings, price the list on the call and usually have a technician at the house within days.
It depends on the list, and the list is priced by the line, in writing, before anything is scheduled, so you see each item and can drop one. A rotted frame, a beam end or a bathroom item gets a look first and a written scope, and a job over the state's written-contract threshold is signed before it starts. Nothing is added at the door.
Yes. Every line carries a one-year workmanship warranty in writing, done by a Kaminskiy-certified, background checked technician, and Kaminskiy Care and Repair is a licensed California contractor (License #1120648), bonded and insured.
Yes. The licensed pest company treats; the carpentry on the report, a rotted sill, a bottom rail, a fascia board, a porch post base, is ours, rebuilt to profile and primed, with the invoice the escrow wants. Anything the report calls structural goes to the engineer first, and we say so.
Painting, patching, caulking, a rehung door and the inside list need nothing in any of the six cities, and the state code asks no application for an ordinary repair. A window or door replacement, a rebuilt deck or anything that cuts framing is a permit, and San Mateo issues the rot, siding and window permits over the counter. We check the city before we quote and tell you what it said.
San Mateo, Foster City, Belmont, San Carlos, Redwood City and Redwood Shores, Menlo Park, Atherton and Palo Alto, plus Burlingame, Hillsborough, Woodside and East Palo Alto. The East Bay and the South Bay are covered by their own Kaminskiy offices. Call 855-695-1195 to confirm your address and get on the schedule.
Tell us what is on the list. We'll call you back with a price and a time. Calling is still the fastest way: 855-695-1195.
Priced on the call, one crew for the whole list, 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.
