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Kaminskiy Care and Repair is a licensed, insured handyman company whose background checked employees handle the whole home to do list, doors first. Calls are answered in under three rings, and most jobs are priced and scheduled in under 10 minutes. We serve Lafayette and the surrounding California communities.
Ten minutes down Highway 24. Hillside doors, siding and decks start the Lafayette list.
Lafayette doors stop latching because the hill moves and the oaks never let the north wall dry. A heavy entry door in Happy Valley racks with its frame until the latch misses, a 1950s wood door downtown swells every winter under the canopy, and the French doors onto a Burton Valley deck wear out by August. We true and shim the frame, rehang the door on hinges sized for its weight, re-roller the slider, rebuild the rotted jamb and sill and seal every edge the shade keeps damp.
Every line is a repair a Kaminskiy-certified technician clears in one visit from our East Bay office, one exit east on Highway 24. Save the list and make one call.
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 Lafayette repair.
A Lafayette list is the door that will not latch, the soft siding, the deck board, the winter crack and the porch post, and on a hillside lot the second item already needs a licensed contractor. One technician takes the whole list in one visit from Walnut Creek, so you make a single call and the list is done instead of parceled out among a carpenter, a painter and a weekend.
Call or text photos and most of the list is priced on the phone, item by item, before a truck leaves Quail Court. The price comes in writing, you approve it, and it is what the invoice says. No meter running, no trip charge per line. A siding course or a post base that is worse inside than it looked is priced before we open more of it.
Lafayette's own exempt list puts termite and dry rot repair that adds no square footage outside the planning check, and the building permit side is run for the city by Contra Costa County's inspectors under the state residential code, which asks no application for an ordinary repair and exempts painting and similar finish work. A sill, a fascia board, a rehung door, a run of siding: no permit. A deck rebuild or rot into framing takes a county permit, and in the hillside and fire zones the fire district looks too, so we ask first.
A licensed plumber takes a re-pipe, a sewer line or a gas line; a licensed electrician takes a panel, a new circuit or rewiring; a beam that carries the house waits for an engineer; termite treatment is a licensed pest control company's work, and we rebuild the wood after it; a glass panel goes to a glazier. We tell you which line on the call so nothing is a surprise on the hill.
Large hillside lots with 1950s and 1960s ranch houses and newer custom homes, long runs of wood siding and redwood trim, heavy entry doors, and oaks over nearly all of it. The uphill and north walls stay damp for days after a storm, the frames rack as the house settles, and the deck on the downhill side carries the weather. The list here is a door that stopped latching, a rotted run of siding, a soft deck board and a railing post, all rebuilt to match the siding profile and the stain.
Smaller older lots under mature trees, kept damp by the creek, with wood-framed windows, wood siding, porch posts and original doors from the 1940s through the 1960s. Sills and jamb bottoms go first, then the bottom siding courses and the base of every post. We splice sound wood into the old, reset the grade so soil sits below the wood line again, rehang the door and patch the plaster that cracked above it.
Family streets from the 1960s and 1970s with redwood decks, pool yards, patio covers, French doors and sliders to the yard. Deck boards soften at the ends over the water, rail posts rot at the base, beam ends check in summer and soak in winter, and the sliders wear from a season of wet feet. We rebuild where they stand, re-roller the slider, and fix the garage-to-house door on the same visit.
Call 925-302-5955 or text pictures of the door, the siding, the deck and the post. We pick up in under three rings and go down the list together.
Most Lafayette lists are priced on the call and sent in writing. You approve before anything is scheduled.
A technician comes down Highway 24 with hinges, rollers, primed redwood, siding to match, patch material and the parts the list asked for, and works it from the front door to the back deck in one visit.
Old wood and dust leave with us, the stain and paint match the house, and the one-year workmanship warranty is on the invoice at the approved price.
California lets a job be done without a license only below a small set amount, with no permit required and no employees on it; on a hillside house the list is past that line by the second item, and the state wants a licensed contractor. Kaminskiy Care and Repair is licensed (License #1120648), bonded and insured, sends Kaminskiy-certified, background checked employees, and writes up anything over the state's contract threshold before the first visit.
The city's exempt list keeps termite and dry rot repair that adds no square footage out of the Planning Department's zoning check, and Contra Costa County's building inspectors handle the permit side for the city under the state residential code, which asks no application for an ordinary repair to a structure and never allows one to cut a structural beam. A sill, a fascia board, a rehung door or a run of siding is that kind of repair. A deck rebuilt from the frame or rot into the framing takes a county permit, and in the hillside and fire zones the fire district has a say, so we ask before we quote that kind of job.
Much of Lafayette has no association; the city's hillside rules, its tree ordinance and the fire map do that job. In the high and very high zones a new exterior door, eave or deck may have to meet the wildfire standard, while a like-for-like repair does not. Protected oaks mean we take branches off the house and dig no new post hole under a canopy without asking first. Where an association does review the outside, a repair painted to match rarely needs a form.
Ten minutes down Highway 24. Your Lafayette crew dispatches from our East Bay office on Quail Court in Walnut Creek, one exit east, so a hillside list is usually on the calendar within days. Call 925-302-5955, text a photo, or send the form.
Can't find your answer? Call 925-302-5955 and ask us anything.
Call 925-302-5955Yes, and on a hillside lot it should. Write down the door, the siding, the deck board, the crack and the garage door closer and hand the list to one technician. One trip down Highway 24, one written price, one invoice, and the list is done in a visit.
Not much, and we say what before we come. A licensed plumber takes the re-pipes, sewer lines and gas lines, a licensed electrician the panels and rewiring, an engineer any beam that carries the house, and a licensed pest control company the termite treatment before we rebuild the wood. We say which on the call.
We pick up in under three rings and most of the list is priced before you hang up. The crew starts the day in Walnut Creek, ten minutes east, so a Lafayette list is usually scheduled within days, and a short one often fits the same week.
The list sets it, and you know the number before a truck moves. Call, or text photos, and the list is priced item by item on the phone and confirmed in writing. You approve, and the invoice says the same thing. No meter running and no trip charge on every line.
Yes. Every job comes with a written one-year workmanship warranty and a Kaminskiy-certified, background checked employee doing it. Kaminskiy Care and Repair holds a California contractor license (License #1120648) and is bonded and insured.
Not a like-for-like repair. A rehung door, a rebuilt sill, a run of siding or a few deck boards replaced in kind are repairs, and the wildfire standard is written for new construction. A whole new exterior door, eave or deck in the high or very high zone may have to meet it, and that is where we ask the fire district before you buy anything.
The house moves a little every wet season and the frame goes with it, so the latch drifts off the strike and the top corner binds. We square and shim the frame, plane where it rubs, reset the hinges and move the strike, and the door closes with one hand again. If the gap keeps growing year over year, we say so and point you to an engineer rather than keep planing.
All of Lafayette from our Walnut Creek office: Happy Valley, Upper Happy Valley, Reliez Valley, Acalanes Ridge, Burton Valley, Springhill, downtown and the Trail neighborhood, plus Orinda, Moraga, Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill. Call 925-302-5955 to confirm your address.
Tell us what is on the list. We'll call you back with a price and a time. Calling is still the fastest way: 925-302-5955.
Priced on the call, one crew for the whole list, warranted in writing.
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.
