Doors that stick, swell or will not lock, fixed. Salt-eaten hardware replaced. The new door you bought, installed. Priced on the call.
BBBAccredited BusinessKaminskiy Care and Repair repairs and installs doors across La Jolla, from Bird Rock and Windansea to the Shores and Mount Soledad. Salt-crusted hinges and deadbolts are replaced with stainless, wood doors that swell in the gray months are rehung and sealed, frames rotted at the threshold are rebuilt, and the door you bought is installed in the opening you have. Priced on the call, in writing, before anything is scheduled.
Eight repairs, one crew, priced before we come out.
Salt air off the ocean, the marine layer that hangs over the coast and a lot of older wood doors make La Jolla hard on a door. We plane, shim and rehang it, rebuild the frame where it rotted, fit hardware that stands up to the salt, and seal it so it closes with one hand.
AFTERBEFORE
Entry Door Repair
Door Frame & Jamb Rebuild
Front & Exterior Door Install
Interior Door Install
French Doors
Sliding Patio Doors
Pocket & Barn Doors
Locks, Hinges & ClosersEvery one of these is a fix for a Kaminskiy-certified technician. Call now. Most La Jolla door repairs are priced on the call and finished in one visit.
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 door repair and installation carries our one-year workmanship warranty, in writing, and is done by a Kaminskiy-certified, background checked technician.
Salt and damp. Close to the water, salt spray seizes hinges, strike plates and deadbolts and stains the screws, and the marine layer keeps wood doors damp so they swell, stick and lose their finish at the bottom rail. Drywood termites, common along the coast, work into the frames. On the hillside streets, houses that have settled for decades leave doors binding at the top. The door is often fine; the hardware and the frame are not.
On the coast the door is rarely the problem: the hardware seizes and the frame softens. Stainless hinges, a rebuilt jamb and a sealed bottom rail save most La Jolla doors. When a door is split or rotted through, a new slab or prehung door is the better buy, and we tell you which on the call.
Usually not. La Jolla is in the City of San Diego, where a replacement door in the existing opening of a house, duplex or townhouse needs no building permit when the rough opening and the flashing stay as they are. A bigger opening, a window turned into a door, a historic home or the very high fire hazard zone is where we check with the city first.
The doors that face the water take the most salt and sand. Slider rollers corrode and tracks fill with sand; French doors swell and rub in the middle. New stainless rollers, a cleaned and trued track and a realigned pair of French doors fix most of them in one visit.
Salt air and sand at every door. Hinges and deadbolts seize, and wood doors swell through the gray months. We rehang and seal the door, replace the hardware with stainless that stands up to the spray, and refinish the edges that face the weather.
Beach houses, wide sliding patio doors and French doors that open to the ocean air. Rollers corrode and tracks fill with sand. We replace the rollers, true the track and reset the latch, and the Shores planned district keeps changes to the outside in its own review.
Older custom homes and original wood doors in frames that have settled. Doors bind at the top and the latch misses. We keep the original door where it can be saved, rebuild the frame and rehang it so it swings true.
We price the repair or the install on the call, in writing, before anything is scheduled.
Shims, hinges, strikes, weatherstrip, jamb stock and the common locksets come along, so most repairs finish the day we arrive.
We measure first so you buy the right size and swing, then hang the door you bought, frame fixed first so it stays true.
The work area is cleaned before we leave, and every repair and install carries our one-year workmanship warranty.
La Jolla is in the City of San Diego: a replacement door in the same opening of a house, duplex or townhouse needs no building permit when the rough opening and the flashing are unchanged. Much of La Jolla is in the coastal overlay zone, where repair and maintenance are exempt from a coastal permit, but work near a bluff edge is not, and the La Jolla Shores planned district has its own review. We check before you buy a door.
California's residential code wants the door between the garage and the house to be solid wood or steel at least 1-3/8 inches thick, or rated for 20 minutes, and to close and latch on its own. Many older homes have a hollow-core door there or a closer that quit; we install the right door and the closer.
La Jolla has many designated historic homes and beach cottages; a designated home needs the city's review before the front door changes, and the work follows the Secretary of the Interior's Standards. Associations approve a door that matches the approved style; a new design usually needs a form, and we put the details in writing.
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Call 858-330-5590Most door repairs are priced on the call and scheduled within a few days. The truck carries hinges, strikes, weatherstrip, shims and jamb stock, so a door that sticks, sags or will not lock is usually fixed the day we arrive.
Yes. Near the water we replace hinges, strike plates, deadbolts and closers with stainless or coated hardware, set with stainless screws, so the door does not seize again in a year. The door itself is usually fine once the hardware and the frame are right.
The price follows the problem: hinges and a strike are quick, a rotted frame or a new prehung door takes longer. We quote it on the call, in writing, from your description or a photo, before anything is booked. No surprises when we arrive.
Usually, yes. An original wood door can almost always be rehung, its frame rebuilt and its bottom rail repaired. If the home is a designated historic resource, any change to the front door goes through the city's review first, and we keep the repair to what is there.
We install them. You pick and buy the door, from a home center or a door shop, and we install it: we measure first so you buy the right size and swing, fix the frame, then hang, seal, trim and fit the hardware. Prehung or slab, interior or exterior, French or patio.
Yes, that is most of our installs. Tell us the size and whether it is prehung or a slab, or text a photo of the label, and we price the install on the call. If the opening needs work first, we tell you before the door arrives.
La Jolla is in the City of San Diego: a replacement door in the existing opening of a house, duplex or townhouse needs no permit when the rough opening and the flashing stay the same. A larger opening, a historic home, or an exterior door in the very high fire hazard zone is where we check with the city first, and we tell you that on the call.
All of La Jolla from our office on World Trade Drive, including the Village, Windansea, Bird Rock, La Jolla Shores, La Jolla Farms, Mount Soledad and the Muirlands, plus Pacific Beach, University City and Del Mar. Call 858-330-5590 to confirm your address and get on the schedule.
Tell us what the door is doing, or text us a photo. We'll call you back with a price and a time. Calling is still the fastest way: 858-330-5590.
Priced on the call. Kaminskiy-certified technicians. A one-year 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.
