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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 Beverly Hills and the surrounding California communities.
Our office is on Wilshire in Beverly Hills. Ninety-year-old lines, tile roofs and the flat roofs of Trousdale write the list.
Beverly Hills houses are old enough that the plumbing inside the walls is the story. A galvanized line in a 1920s Spanish house weeps into the plaster for a season before the bulge shows. A tile roof sends a storm down a valley onto a wall. In Trousdale a flat roof holds the rain until it finds a seam. We trace the route, have the licensed plumber or roofer close it, cut the plaster back to sound lath, dry the cavity and rebuild to the finish the house carries.
AFTERBEFOREEvery one of these is a dry-out and a rebuild for a Kaminskiy-certified technician based on Wilshire Boulevard. One call, one written scope, one crew for the tear-out, the plaster or drywall, the trim and the paint, with the owner and the house manager copied on the photos.
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 Beverly Hills water damage repair.
Because the water is still arriving. In Beverly Hills that is usually a galvanized line that weeps a little every time a tap opens, a tile valley that drains onto a wall only in a storm from the west, a flat roof seam that opens a little more each summer, or a garden line against the foundation. Painting over the ring covers it for a few weeks and then the minerals ride through. We find the route first and write it down, have the right licensed trade close it, and meter the cavity dry before anything is sealed.
If the plaster or drywall is stained but firm and nothing is growing behind it, it can be dried, primed with a stain blocker and refinished. What is soft, sagging or crumbling, or has been wet more than a couple of days, is cut back to sound edges with the insulation and the swollen baseboard or casing. Where the plaster keys have let go of the lath it comes out; a firm, stained patch stays. A soft subfloor under a bath is replaced, and a joist that will not firm up goes to the engineer first. The written scope says which, so the owner or the manager approves a list, not a guess.
California has no mold remediation license, so no state list exists to check; the state's guidance is to remove visible growth and fix the water behind it. A small surface spot on plaster, drywall, trim or grout is removed with the material and treated. Growth across a wall, inside a cavity or the ducts, through more than one unit, or in a house where someone has breathing trouble, goes to a remediation company with industry certification and containment, and the air or surface testing goes with it. We say it at the look, hand you the names we trust, and come back for the rebuild after clearance.
Let the licensed plumber replace the last galvanized run before it closes itself, and put braided steel hoses on the washer. Have the roofer walk the tile valleys and the flat roof seams before November and clear the gutters and the scuppers under the trees. Pull the irrigation heads back from the foundation and keep the grade below the plaster line. Put a pan and a shutoff on every water heater, and have the house manager open every sink cabinet on the monthly walk. Most of what we rebuild in Beverly Hills ran for a season before anyone saw it.
Spanish, Tudor and Colonial houses from the 1920s and 1930s with plaster on wood lath, galvanized or early copper lines in the walls, clay tile roofs with valleys and crickets, wood-sash windows and gardens watered every morning. The galvanized line weeps for a season before the plaster bulges; the tile valley drains onto a wall in a west storm; the sill corner rots and the storm comes in under it; the garden line runs against the foundation until the baseboard inside swells. We trace the water across the rooms, cut the plaster back to sound lath, dry the cavity and rebuild with plaster or a drywall inlay finished to the same hand-troweled surface once the licensed plumber or roofer has stopped the source. Plaster from before 1980 gets a sample tested for asbestos before we open it.
Smaller 1920s to 1940s houses and duplexes on tighter lots, many changing hands, so the inspection report and the escrow calendar drive the work: the stain under the upstairs bath, the soft subfloor under a shower pan, the cast iron drain that cracked under the slab, the water heater in a closet that let go. Condominium buildings along Wilshire and Doheny add the unit upstairs and the stack behind the bathroom wall. We cut out what stayed wet, dry the cavity and the crawl space below the older houses, replace the subfloor where it failed, and rebuild and paint to match before the appraisal or the lease, with the scope written per unit where there is a board to read it.
Mid-century post-and-beam houses with flat or low-slope roofs, big glass walls to the view, slab floors with copper under them and hillside lots that drain toward the house. The flat roof holds a storm until it finds a seam at a skylight or a parapet; the slab line pinholes and the terrazzo or the tile warms; the uphill wall takes the hillside's water every wet winter. We open the ceiling or the wall, dry the cavity and the slab edge, and rebuild the drywall, the trim and the paint to the clean lines the house was built with once the licensed roofer has sealed the roof or the licensed plumber has rerouted the line.
Call 310-928-6211 or text a photo of the bulge, the stain or the soft floor, or have the house manager send it. You get a range on the call and a date for the look, usually within days.
A technician traces the water with a moisture meter, checks the framing and the lath, and writes the scope: the source, what comes out, how long the drying runs, which licensed trade closes it, what goes back and in what material, and the price.
The licensed plumber or roofer we schedule closes the source first. We cut out the wet plaster or drywall, insulation and trim, dry the cavity to a meter reading, treat the framing, then rebuild, texture and paint to match.
Dated photos of the open wall and the meter log go in your file for the adjuster, the escrow or the board. We take the dust with us, and the one-year workmanship warranty is printed on the invoice.
Under California law a repair below a small set amount may be done without a license, provided it needs no permit and no one is employed to do it; a water damage rebuild in a Beverly Hills house lands past that line with the first sheet of plaster. Kaminskiy Care and Repair is a licensed California contractor (License #1106209), bonded and insured, with Kaminskiy-certified, background-checked technicians, and anything over the state's written-contract threshold is on paper before the first visit. The line is the licensed plumber's and the roof the licensed roofer's; we schedule them and do the tear-out, the drying and the rebuild around their work.
Beverly Hills keeps its own list of work exempt from a permit and builds to the California codes with local amendments. The state residential code it builds to needs no application for ordinary repairs to a structure and exempts painting and similar finish work, which is where plaster, drywall, baseboard and a subfloor patch replaced in kind, in the same place, fall; it draws the line at cutting a structural beam or a load-bearing support, so a joist the water softened is a permit and often an engineer. The city's list is strict, so before a room's worth of wall comes out we check it rather than quote it. The plumber's replaced line and the roofer's work carry their own permits, and on a landmark the inside of the house is not the commission's concern; the outside is.
A burst line, a failed water heater or a storm through a sound roof is the sudden kind of loss most policies cover; a galvanized line that wept for a season, seepage and deferred maintenance 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 claims, which a public adjuster licensed by the Department of Insurance does. Most of Beverly Hills has no association, so a rebuild in kind needs nobody's review. In a condominium along Wilshire or Doheny California's common-interest law makes the association responsible for the common area and you for your unit unless the CC&Rs say otherwise, and whose wall the leak lives in is settled with the manager before the scope is final. For a sale, the scope and the photos go to the escrow as the repair record.
Our office is on Wilshire in Beverly Hills. The crew starts the day at 8383 Wilshire Boulevard, so a Beverly Hills call is usually on the calendar within days and a technician can look the same week. Call 310-928-6211, text a photo, or send the form.
Can't find your answer? Call 310-928-6211 and ask us anything.
Call 310-928-6211No, that is a remediation company's trade. A small surface spot on plaster, drywall, trim or framing we treat and remove as part of the rebuild, replacing what the water ruined. Growth across a wall, inside a cavity or the ducts, or through more than one unit, 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. A bulge that grows a little every week is a line inside the wall; a stain that grows in a storm from the west is a tile valley, a flat roof seam or a sill; a warm floor in Trousdale is the copper under the slab; a ring under a bathroom is a supply line, a pan or a cast iron drain. We trace the route with a moisture meter across the rooms between, and the licensed plumber or roofer confirms and fixes it before anything is closed.
Yes. A 1920s house gets a plaster patch or a drywall inlay finished to the same hand-troweled surface, with the crown and the base matched to the profile; a Trousdale house gets its smooth finish and clean lines back; a 1940s duplex gets its light texture. We feather the patch out past the cut, prime with a stain blocker and paint wall to wall so nothing shows, and a plaster or popcorn ceiling from before 1980 gets a sample tested before any sanding. Wallcoverings and specialty finishes we name in the scope so the right finisher is lined up.
It depends on how far the water ran, how long it sat and what the wall is made of; plaster on lath takes longer than drywall to open and to close. Text a photo and you get a range on the call; after the look you get a written scope with the tear-out, the drying, the licensed trade and the rebuild priced before anything starts, by email if you are away. The price you approve is the price at the house, and the scope is written so your insurer or the escrow can read it.
Often, when it happened suddenly: a burst line, a failed heater, a storm through an otherwise sound roof. A galvanized line that wept for a season, seepage and deferred maintenance usually are not covered, and the policy and the adjuster decide. We give you dated photos of the open wall, meter readings and a line-item scope; we do not adjust claims, and a public adjuster licensed by the state does if you want one.
Usually, if the source can be closed in time. We look within days, the licensed plumber or roofer goes on the same calendar, the drying runs to a meter reading and the rebuild follows in a few visits, and the scope, the photos and the invoice go to the escrow as the repair record. What we will not do is close a wall over a damp stud to make a date; the stain would be back before the new owner's first winter.
All of Beverly Hills from our Wilshire office: the flats north and south of Wilshire, Trousdale Estates, Coldwater Canyon and Benedict Canyon, plus Bel Air, Holmby Hills, Century City, Westwood, West Hollywood, Beverly Grove and the Hollywood 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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