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Sunnyvale is Eichler and ranch-tract country, built out in the 1950s and 1960s, so its doors are floor-to-ceiling sliders on worn wheels, flush front doors in courtyard walls and builder entry doors in frames the sprinklers soaked for sixty years. We re-roller the slider, true the track, rehang the entry door, rebuild the jamb and install the door you bought, keeping the Eichler lines where the city's guidelines care about them.
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THE LISTALL DONEOur office is a few minutes from every one of these. A Kaminskiy-certified technician prices the small ones on the call; a beam end or a balcony gets a look first.
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 Sunnyvale job.
Post-and-beam houses with flat or low roofs, radiant slabs, glass walls and exposed beam ends, and the ranch tracts around them with wood fascia and wood-framed windows, all from the 1950s and 1960s. Beam ends and fascia check in the sun and soak in the rain, sliders wear out their wheels, and nothing can be drilled into a radiant slab. We rebuild to the original profile and work to the city's Eichler design guidelines.
The oldest houses in the city, some from the 1900s to the 1930s, with wood siding, porches and original doors, beside 1960s and 1970s stucco tracts with pop-out sills. Porch posts, the bottom courses of siding and the shaded-side sills go first; the tracts bring sliders, texture-matched patches and fascia. On the Heritage District streets the repair keeps to what was there.
Compact 1950s homes with builder doors, and 1970s and 1980s condos and townhomes with wood balconies, stairs and railings now under California's balcony inspection law. Hollow-core doors swapped for solid ones, garage-to-house doors made to close on their own, and the railing, board and post-base carpentry the association's report flags, scoped in writing for the board.
Sun, sprinklers and sixty years. Sunnyvale sits in the dry, sunny end of the Bay, so the paint checks on the exposed beam ends and the south walls first and the winter rain follows it into the end grain; at the ground the lawn sprinklers keep the sills, the jamb bottoms and the post bases wet all year, which is where the subterranean termites come up. Add valley clay that moves the doors with the seasons and you have the Sunnyvale list.
Doors, sliders, beam ends, fascia, drywall, trim, fences, balcony boards, caulk and fixtures are handyman work. A roof membrane, an electrical panel, a re-pipe, the radiant-heat loop in the slab or a beam that carries the roof goes to the licensed specialty trade or the engineer, and we say so on the call. Termite treatment is the licensed pest company's; rebuilding what they ate is ours.
Most Sunnyvale jobs are priced on the call, in writing, from a description or a photo, before anything goes on the calendar; our office is close enough that a look costs nothing when a photo is not enough. An Eichler beam end, a balcony or a bath refresh gets a written scope first. You approve, then we start.
An Eichler asks for three habits. Keep the roof drains and scuppers clear before the first storm, because a flat roof shows a slow drain as a ceiling stain. Never drill or cut the slab without knowing where the radiant loop runs. And cap or flash the exposed beam ends and repaint the sun side before the paint fails, because a beam end that has rotted is cut back and scarfed, not filled, and we do it so it reads as original from the street.
We answer in under three rings and most repairs are priced on the call, in writing, before anything is booked.
The technician arrives with the hardware, patching and fastening stock the usual list needs, so the first visit is the working visit.
Rot, a frame rebuild, a slider swap or a bathroom item gets a look and a written scope. You approve before work begins.
Every job is backed by our one-year workmanship warranty, and the area is clean when we leave.
Under California law a job below a small set amount may be done without a contractor license, but only when no permit is needed and no one is employed to do it; a Sunnyvale list reaches past that line by the second item, a slider, a beam end, a balcony railing. Kaminskiy Care and Repair is a licensed California contractor (License #1106209), bonded and insured, with Kaminskiy-certified, background-checked technicians, and puts every job over the state's written-contract threshold on paper first.
Sunnyvale publishes its own sheet of work that needs no building permit, with painting and similar cosmetic work on it, a note that the list is not all-inclusive and that each code carries more exemptions, and a reminder that exterior paint can need the Planning Division's approval. The state residential code fills in the rest: no application for an ordinary repair to a structure, never the cutting of a structural beam or a load-bearing support. A sill, a fascia board, a patched wall or a rehung door is that; a deck, a balcony rebuild or a beam cut back into the roof structure is a permit, and we tell you which on the call.
Most of Sunnyvale's single-family streets have no association. The Eichler tracts follow the city's Eichler design guidelines, which care about the look of the front, so a new entry door or a changed window keeps the Eichler lines, and the Heritage District houses get the same respect. The condos and townhomes toward the Bay carry California's balcony inspection law: the railing, board and post-base carpentry the report flags is our lane, scoped in writing for the board; a structural member goes back to the engineer first.
Our office is downtown on Murphy Avenue. The South Bay crew starts the day at 100 S Murphy Avenue, a few minutes from any Sunnyvale street, which is why a Sunnyvale call is usually the first stop on the calendar. Call 408-916-4022, text a photo, or send the form. The whole South Bay is on our San Jose handyman page.
Reviewed by Sergei Kaminskiy, founder, November 7, 2026.
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Call 408-916-4022Faster than anywhere else we serve: the office is downtown on Murphy Avenue, a few minutes from any Sunnyvale street. We answer in under three rings, price most repairs on the call and usually have a technician at the house within days.
Text a photo or describe the job and the price comes on the call, in writing, before anything is booked. An Eichler beam end, a balcony or a bath refresh gets a look first, which costs nothing from an office this close, and a written scope. What you approve is what you pay.
Yes. The slider wheels, the courtyard gate, the drywall crack and the fixtures go on one list, and one Kaminskiy-certified technician with a stocked truck works through it. A part we do not carry gets 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. A slider swap, a beam end or a balcony railing is inside the law with us, and every job carries our one-year workmanship warranty in writing.
Not for an ordinary repair. Sunnyvale's own sheet exempts painting and cosmetic work and points to the codes for the rest, and the state code asks no application for a repaired sill, fascia board, wall or door. A deck, a balcony rebuild or rot into a beam that carries the roof is a permit, exterior paint on an Eichler or a Heritage District house can need Planning's nod, and we tell you on the call.
Yes, when the crew knows the house. We re-roller the floor-to-ceiling sliders, cut back and scarf a rotted beam end so it reads as original, keep a new entry door to the flush Eichler lines the city's guidelines expect, and never drill a radiant slab blind. If rot has reached the part of a beam that carries the roof, we tell you who needs to look at it first.
All of Sunnyvale from Murphy Avenue, including Cherry Chase, Fairbrae, Birdland, Las Palmas, the Heritage District, Ponderosa Park, Raynor, Lakewood and San Miguel, plus Mountain View, Cupertino, Santa Clara, Los Altos and San Jose. Call 408-916-4022 to confirm your address and get on the schedule.
Tell us the list, or text a photo, and we call back with a written price and a time. Calling is still faster: 408-916-4022.
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 Sunnyvale 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.
