Doors that bind, swell or will not latch, fixed. Frames trued on the hillside. The new door you bought, installed. Priced on the call.
BBBAccredited BusinessKaminskiy Care and Repair repairs and installs doors across Lafayette, from Happy Valley and Reliez Valley to Burton Valley and the Trail neighborhood. Doors that bind as hillside homes settle are rehung and their frames trued, frames rotted under the oaks are rebuilt, and the door you bought is installed with the fire zone in mind. Priced on the call, in writing, before anything is scheduled.
Eight repairs, one crew, priced before we come out.
Lafayette is oak country on hillsides, where doors stay damp in the shade, houses settle and canyon edges are mapped for fire. We true frames, rehang and reseal, and install the doors you choose to the wildfire rule where it applies.
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 Lafayette 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.
Shade, slope and fire. Under Lafayette's oaks a door stays damp through the winter, so the frames rot at the sill and wood doors swell. Hillside homes settle and rack their frames until doors bind and latches miss. Most of the city is now mapped high fire hazard on the 2025 map, with very high pockets, which shapes the exterior doors you choose.
In Lafayette the frame usually fails before the door: racked by a settling house or rotted under the oaks. Trued or rebuilt frames save most doors. When an exterior door has to be replaced, the fire zone may shape which door you buy, and we tell you on the call.
Not for a repair: rehanging, a frame rebuild or new hardware are ordinary repairs. For a new exterior door we check Lafayette's rule for your address before you buy it; with much of the city in the high and very high fire hazard zones, the wildfire standard may apply too.
Doors under Lafayette's oaks stay wet all winter, so their sills and bottom rails rot and their finish fails first. We rebuild the sill, seal every cut edge and refinish the bottom rail so the door lasts.
Big hillside lots under the oaks, with heavy entry doors and frames that rack as the houses settle. We true the frame, rehang the door and check the fire zone before a new exterior door.
Older homes on smaller lots, shaded and damp. We rebuild frames rotted at the sill, rehang swollen doors and seal them.
Family homes with French doors and sliders to the yard. We realign French doors, replace slider rollers and fix garage-to-house doors.
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.
Rehanging a door, rebuilding a frame, a new slab or new hardware are ordinary repairs. For a new exterior door we check Lafayette's rule for your address before you buy it. The 2025 map put about 5,300 acres of Lafayette in the high fire hazard zone and some in very high, where a new exterior door may have to meet the wildfire standard.
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.
Much of Lafayette has no association; the city's hillside rules do that work. Where an association does review the outside, a repair that matches needs nothing, and for a new door we put the details in writing.
Can't find your answer? Call 925-302-5955 and ask us anything.
Call 925-302-5955We answer in under three rings, price most door repairs on the call, and usually schedule within days. The technician brings shims, hinges, strikes, weatherstrip and jamb stock, so a rehang, a frame repair or a lock replacement is finished in one visit.
Because the house has moved. As a hillside home settles, the frame racks out of square, the door binds at the top and the latch misses the strike. We true the frame and rehang the door.
A rehang or a new strike plate is a small job; a rebuilt frame or a new door installed is a bigger one. Describe the door or text a photo and you get the price on the call, in writing, before we schedule anything, and that is the price at the house.
In the very high fire hazard zone, a new exterior door may have to meet the state wildfire standard: solid-core wood, a 20-minute rated door or an approved noncombustible door. We check your address before you buy the door.
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.
Not to repair one. For a new exterior door we check the city rule for your address first; much of Lafayette is in the 2025 fire hazard zones, and a larger opening always takes a permit.
All of Lafayette from our office in Walnut Creek, including Happy Valley, Reliez Valley, Acalanes Ridge, Burton Valley, the Trail neighborhood and Springhill, plus Orinda, Moraga, Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill. Call 925-302-5955 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: 925-302-5955.
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.
