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Kaminskiy Care and Repair repairs water damage and mold damage on drywall, ceilings, trim and cabinets: the leak confirmed stopped, wet material removed, the area dried and treated, then rebuilt and painted to match. Large scale remediation and air testing are referred to a licensed specialist, and we handle the rebuild after. We serve Bel Air and the surrounding California communities.
Minutes up Beverly Glen from our office. Long roofs, irrigated gardens and hillside runoff write the Bel Air list.
Bel Air houses are big, old and watered every day, and the water gets in from above, beside and below. A roof with a dozen valleys sends a storm down one of them onto a wall; a garden line runs against the foundation until the plaster inside reads damp; a hillside lot drains toward the lower level. We trace the route, have the licensed plumber or roofer close it, cut back to dry framing, dry the cavity and rebuild in kind, with the house manager in the loop.
AFTERBEFOREEach of these is a dry-out and a rebuild for a Kaminskiy-certified technician sent up from our Beverly Hills office. One call, one written scope, one crew for the tear-out, the plaster or drywall, the trim and the paint, with the photos sent to the owner or the manager.
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 Bel Air water damage repair.
Because the water is still arriving, and on an estate it can arrive from a long way off. A roof valley that drains only in a west storm, a garden line with a pinhole, a planter membrane with a split, a hillside that sends every storm against the same wall will wet the same spot again, and paint over the ring bleeds through within weeks. We trace the route across the house, have the right licensed trade stop it, and dry the cavity to a meter reading before anything is closed.
Plaster or drywall that is stained but still firm, with nothing growing behind it, is dried, sealed with a stain-blocking primer and refinished where it stands. Anything soft, sagging or crumbling, or wet for more than a couple of days, comes out to sound edges, along with the insulation behind it and any baseboard or casing that swelled. Plaster whose keys have broken off the lath is replaced; plaster that is only stained and still firm stays. A subfloor that went soft under a bath is replaced, and a joist or a ledger that stays soft goes to the engineer first. We probe and meter during the walk, and the written scope spells out which.
There is no California license for mold remediation and so no state list to check; the state's advice is to remove visible growth and fix the moisture that fed it. Where the growth is a small surface patch on plaster, drywall, trim or grout, it leaves with the material and the framing gets treated. Growth across a wall, inside a cavity or the ducts, across a lower level that stayed damp all winter, or in a house where someone is ill, goes to a remediation company with industry certification and containment, and the air or surface testing goes with it. We tell you at the walk, give you names we have worked behind, and rebuild once they clear it.
Have the roofer walk the valleys and the crickets before November and clear the gutters under the trees. Pull the irrigation heads and the drip lines back from the foundation and keep the grade and the mulch below the plaster line. Have the planters over living space and the deck membranes checked every few years, and the hillside drains cleared before the first storm. Put a pan and a shutoff on each water heater, and walk the unused wings monthly; most of what we rebuild in Bel Air ran for weeks in a room nobody was using.
Older estates with long roofs full of valleys and crickets, plaster walls on wood lath, wood windows, galvanized or early copper lines in the oldest wings, and gardens watered every morning with a pool and its equipment somewhere on the grounds. A valley drains onto a wall and the stain shows two rooms away; a garden line or the pool fill runs against the foundation until the plaster inside reads wet; a line in a guest wing nobody uses weeps for months. We trace the water across the house, cut the plaster back to sound lath, dry the cavity and rebuild with plaster or a drywall inlay finished to the same surface once the licensed plumber or roofer has stopped the source. In a house from before 1980 the plaster is tested for asbestos before the first cut.
View homes on cut-and-fill lots with a lower level cut into the hill, decks and planters over living space, and a hillside that drains toward the house every wet winter. The planter over the family room leaks through its membrane; the deck door sill lets a storm from the west under it; the uphill retaining wall weeps into the lower-level wall and the carpet along it stays damp until spring. We open the wall, dry the cavity and the slab edge, rebuild the drywall, the baseboard and the trim, and name the drainage or waterproofing problem that started it so the right licensed trade fixes it before we close.
Houses in shade until noon with irrigation all year, so the canyon floor and the lowest walls never quite dry. Water comes in at the slab edge and the jamb bottoms, a shaded roof holds the storm and the leaves until it finds a seam, and a wall that reads damp in December still reads damp in March. We cut out the wet drywall and baseboard, dry the cavity with equipment the shade cannot fight, treat the framing, and rebuild after the licensed roofer has cleared and sealed the roof and the grade and the irrigation are pulled back from the wall.
Call 310-928-6211 or text photos of the stain, the soft wall or the damp lower level, or have the house manager send them. You get a range on the call and a date for the walk.
A technician traces the water across the house with a moisture meter, checks the framing, and writes the scope: the source, what comes out, how long the drying runs, which licensed trade stops it, what goes back, and the price, sent to the owner and the manager.
First the licensed plumber or roofer we schedule closes the source. We take out the wet plaster or drywall, the insulation and the trim, dry the cavity to a meter reading, treat the framing, and rebuild, texture and paint in kind.
Dated photos of the open wall and the meter log go in the file for the insurer. The dust leaves with us, the furniture goes back where it was, and the one-year workmanship warranty is on the invoice.
California allows a small repair below a set amount without a license when no permit is needed and nobody is employed to help; an estate water damage rebuild crosses that line in the first hour of tear-out. Kaminskiy Care and Repair is a licensed California contractor (License #1106209), bonded and insured, with Kaminskiy-certified, background-checked technicians, and every job over the state's written-contract threshold is on paper before it starts, which on a house this size is every job. The leak belongs to the licensed plumber, the roof to the licensed roofer, the hillside drainage to a licensed drainage contractor, and we schedule them around the rebuild.
Bel Air is in the City of Los Angeles, where the Building Code asks for a permit to alter or repair a structure but needs none for painting and similar finish work or for regulated work under a small set value that does not affect structural stability. A patched ceiling or a sheet put back where it was usually falls under that small-value line; a wing's worth of plaster, a subfloor or any joist the water softened does not, and on a hillside lot anything that touches the drainage or the grading has rules of its own. We tell you at the walk which kind your job is and pull the permit when it needs one. The plumber's and the roofer's work carries its own. Bel Air has no historic overlay zone, so the inside of the house is no one's review but yours.
A burst line, a failed water heater or a storm through a sound roof is the sudden kind of loss most policies cover; a garden line that ran against the foundation for a season, seepage and hillside ground water usually are not, and the policy and the adjuster decide, not us. We photograph the open wall, log the meter readings and write a scope the adjuster can read; we do not negotiate the claim, which a public adjuster licensed by the Department of Insurance does. The Bel Air Association and the hillside committees have no say over the inside of the house, so a rebuild in kind needs no review. The house manager or the estate staff can book us, walk us through and sign off, with the owner copied on every photo and the scope.
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.
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Call 310-928-6211No, whatever this page's address says, that is a remediation company's trade. As part of the rebuild we take out a small surface spot on plaster, drywall, trim or framing, treat it and replace what the water ruined. Growth across a wall, inside a cavity or the ducts, or across a lower level that stayed damp all winter, and any air or surface testing, go to a remediation company with industry certification and containment; California licenses none, so we name the companies we have rebuilt behind and come back when they clear it.
Nearly always, though on an estate the water can travel a long way from its source. A stain that grows in a storm from the west is a roof valley or a deck door; a wall that reads wet all year on the garden side is an irrigation line or the pool fill; a lower level that is damp every winter is the hillside drainage; a ring under a bathroom is a supply line or a pan. We trace the route with a moisture meter across the rooms between, and the licensed plumber, roofer or drainage contractor confirms and fixes it before anything is closed.
Yes. A 1930s estate gets a plaster patch or a drywall inlay finished to the same hand-troweled or smooth surface, with the crown and the base matched to the profile; a Crest house gets its smooth or lightly textured finish back. The patch is feathered past the cut, primed with a stain blocker and painted corner to corner so no edge shows, and a pre-1980 plaster or popcorn ceiling is sampled and tested before we sand. Where there is a wallcovering or a specialty finish, the scope names it so the right finisher is booked.
It depends on how far the water ran, how long it sat and how many rooms it crossed. Text photos, or have the manager send them, and you get a range on the call; after the walk you get a written scope with the tear-out, the drying, the licensed trades and the rebuild priced before anything starts, by email if you are away. What you approve is what you pay, and the scope reads as a claim for your insurer.
Often, if the water came all at once: a line that burst, a heater that failed, a storm that got through a roof that was otherwise sound. Seepage, a garden line that ran for a season, hillside ground water and deferred maintenance usually are not covered, and the policy and the adjuster decide. You get dated photos of the open wall, the meter log and a line-item scope; we do not adjust claims, and a public adjuster licensed by the state can if you want one.
Yes. The manager or the estate staff books the walk, lets us in and walks us through, the technician sends the photos and the written scope to both of you on the day of the walk, the owner approves by email, and we schedule around the household and send photos at each stage. The licensed trades go on the same calendar, and the file is ready for the adjuster when the owner is back.
All of Bel Air from our Beverly Hills office: East Gate, West Gate, Bel Air Crest, Roscomare, Linda Flora, Stone Canyon and Beverly Glen, plus Holmby Hills, Brentwood, Westwood and Beverly Hills. Call 310-928-6211 to confirm your address.
Tell us where the stain or soft spot is. We'll call you back with a price and a time. Calling is still the fastest way: 310-928-6211.
Dried out, rebuilt and painted to match, warranted in writing.
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