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Bel Air doors are the heaviest in the city and they hang on hillsides that move: pivot and double entry doors, walls of French doors to the terrace, service doors a delivery opens every hour, in canyons that have been a very high fire hazard zone since the 1961 fire. We rehang on hardware rated for the weight, true the racked frame, rebuild the threshold the irrigation rotted and check the wildfire rule before a new exterior door is ordered.
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THE LISTALL DONEOn a house this size the list is usually longer than the first photo, so we walk it with you. A Kaminskiy-certified technician prices the small items on the call and the estate in writing after the walk.
We answer in under three rings and get you priced and scheduled in minutes.
A clear, written quote with upfront pricing. You approve before work begins.
Kaminskiy-certified pros finish the job with a workmanship warranty.
Every job is backed in writing by our workmanship warranty and done by a Kaminskiy-certified, background checked technician.
Older estates with long eave runs, wood windows, shutters, heavy double and pivot entry doors and gardens watered daily. The eave above the hedge goes first, then the sill corners on the garden side; the big doors sag on hinges never sized for them. We rebuild the runs to the same profile, rehang on rated hardware and match the finish the house has carried for decades.
View homes on cut-and-fill lots with decks, balconies, railings and beam ends facing the sun and the wind, where the hillside settles a little every wet winter. Frames rack, doors bind at the top, balcony trim and deck boards go soft at the ends. We true the frames, rebuild boards and rails where they stand and name a ledger problem before anyone opens a wall.
Shade until noon and irrigation all year keep the canyon floors damp, so the wood at the bottom of the house rots first: door jambs at the slab, corner boards, post bases, the lowest siding. We rebuild the bottoms, get the grade and the mulch back below the wood line, seal every face and fix the drip that started it.
Size, slope and water. More doors, more eave, more terrace and more outbuildings than almost anywhere we serve, on hillsides that creep when it rains, under hedges that hold the irrigation against the wood. The repairs are the same as on any house; there are simply more of them, and a slow drip has thirty feet of eave to work on. Caught early they are an afternoon; left a few seasons they are a rebuild.
Doors and their hardware, plaster, drywall, trim, eaves, shutters, fences, decks, rot, caulk and fixtures are handyman work. A roof, an electrical panel, a gas line, a re-pipe, a retaining wall or a beam that carries the roof goes to the licensed specialty trade, and we say so on the walk. Termite treatment belongs to the licensed pest company; rebuilding the eave they ate is ours.
A single door, sill or trim piece is priced on the call from a photo, in writing. An estate list gets a walk-through with you or the house manager and comes back as a written scope, item by item, so you can approve all of it or some of it. Nothing starts until the number is on paper, and if the rot runs further than the photo showed you hear it before we go further.
Bel Air has been in the very high fire hazard zone since 1999, after a history that includes the 1961 fire that took 484 homes here. Repairs to what you have need nothing special, but a new exterior door or vent may have to meet the state's wildfire standard, so we check the door you are considering against the rule before you order it.
Tell us the list, or text a photo of the worst item. Most small repairs are priced on the call, in writing, in under ten minutes.
A Kaminskiy-certified technician comes with a stocked truck and works through the list in one visit wherever the parts allow.
A door swap, a rotted frame or a bathroom refresh gets a visit and a written scope before anything starts. No surprises at the house.
The work area is left clean and every repair carries our one-year workmanship warranty, on paper.
California allows a small repair below a set amount without a license when no permit is needed and nobody is employed; an estate list crosses that line in the first hour. Kaminskiy Care and Repair holds License #1106209, is bonded and insured, its technicians are Kaminskiy-certified and background checked, and every job over the state's written-contract threshold is on paper before it starts, which on a house this size is most of them.
Bel Air is in the City of Los Angeles, where LADBS needs no permit for painting and similar finish work, for a low platform or walk, or for regulated work under a small set value that does not affect structural stability; beyond that the Building Code asks for a permit to alter or repair a structure, and a same-size door change-out is an express permit over the counter. A sill, a trim run or a rehung door is usually the first kind; a rebuild into rafter tails or framing is the second, and on a hillside lot anything new has grading rules of its own. We tell you which on the call.
The Bel Air Association and the hillside committees rarely need to see a repair that matches the existing profile and finish; a changed trim detail, a new railing design or a different color sometimes needs a review, and we put the materials and finish in writing for it. Bel Air has no historic overlay zone. The whole community is in the very high fire hazard zone, so a new exterior door or vent is checked against the wildfire standard before it is bought.
Minutes down Sunset from our office. Your Bel Air crew dispatches from our Beverly Hills office at 8383 Wilshire, a short run up Beverly Glen or Stone Canyon, so an estate list is usually walked within days. Call 310-928-6211, text photos, or send the form. The whole Westside is on our Los Angeles handyman page.
Can't find your answer? Call 310-928-6211 and ask us anything.
Call 310-928-6211We answer in under three rings and the office on Wilshire is minutes away down Sunset. A door, a sill or a trim piece is priced on the call and scheduled within days; an estate list gets a walk-through first, with the house manager if there is one, and a written scope before anything starts.
The length of the list and the profile each item has to match set most of it, then height and access on a hillside lot. A door or a sill is priced on the call; thirty feet of eave is priced after a look. Either way the number is in writing before anything is scheduled, item by item.
That is how most of our Bel Air work runs. The list comes by text or email, we walk it together, price it in writing, schedule around the household and the gardeners, and send photos as each item is done, with one running list so nothing is started twice.
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. The carpentry is the same at any size; what changes on an estate is the length of the list, and the whole list goes in writing.
Not for painting and finish work, and not for small work under the City of Los Angeles' set value that does not touch structural stability, which covers a sill, a rehung door or a trim run. A new door in the same opening is an express permit we pull over the counter; rafter tails, a beam or framing is a permit with plan check, and a hillside lot adds rules for anything new. We tell you which on the call.
Bel Air is in the very high fire hazard zone, so a new exterior door may have to meet the state's wildfire standard, solid-core wood, a 20-minute rated door or an approved noncombustible one, and a new vent has its own rule. Repairs to what you have need nothing special. We check before you buy.
All of Bel Air from our Beverly Hills office, including East Gate, West Gate, Bel Air Crest, Roscomare, Linda Flora, Stone Canyon and Beverly Glen, plus Holmby Hills, Brentwood, Westwood, Beverly Hills and the Hollywood Hills. Call 310-928-6211 to confirm your address and get on the schedule.
Tell us what needs fixing. We'll call you back with a price and a time. Calling is still the fastest way: 310-928-6211.
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 Bel Air 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.
