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Kaminskiy Care and Repair handles bathroom repairs and refresh remodels with one crew on one schedule, from fixtures and caulk to vanities and tile. You get a written scope and price before work begins. We serve Los Angeles and the surrounding California communities.
Our office is on Wilshire. The guest bath and the 1960s tub surround lead the list.
A refresh keeps the room where it is and replaces what wore out: a new vanity and top, a tub or shower surround, a glass shower door, faucets and a toilet, grab bars, a quiet exhaust fan, tile and caulk repair, paint. Los Angeles bathrooms run from 1920s mortar-bed tile in Hancock Park to 1960s tub surrounds in West Hollywood apartments and condo baths on the Wilshire Corridor. New products go in; recaulking alone is never the whole job.
AFTERBEFOREEvery one of these is a short job for a Kaminskiy-certified technician based on Wilshire. One list, one call, the price in writing.
Priced and on the calendar during the first call.
A written scope you approve before anyone drives out.
One crew, the whole list, warranty in writing.
A one-year workmanship warranty, in writing, on every Los Angeles bathroom job.
Hard water and age. LADWP puts Westside water at about 8.6 grains per gallon, past the line it calls hard, so scale freezes cartridges, clogs aerators and etches glass. The 1920s tile outlasts its grout and its valves. The 1960s surrounds were set on drywall, and the caulk at the tub lip is the only thing keeping water out of the wall. A fan that never moved air lets mildew win. Most of what we replace here waited years.
A refresh keeps every drain where it is: a new vanity and top, a surround or a glass door over the existing tub, faucets, toilet, fan, grab bars, tile and caulk repair, paint. Moving a drain, taking out a wall, turning a tub into a curbless shower or opening a 1920s mortar-bed wall is a remodel with plan check and a remodeling contractor, and we tell you on the first call which one your room is.
In California our B license covers the plumbing fixture swaps and the fan when they are part of a bathroom job that mixes trades, which a refresh does. A plumbing-only job above the state's small-job line, a valve body inside the wall or a re-pipe goes to the licensed plumber we schedule; a new circuit goes to the licensed electrician. In an apartment or a rental the City of Los Angeles wants a licensed plumbing contractor on the fixture permit, and we book one as part of the job.
A bathroom fails at the joints: the tub lip, the curb, the door jamb, the fan that vents nowhere. We set surrounds on cement board, caulk the lip with silicone that will not shrink, set the glass door track to drain back into the tub, and vent the new fan through the roof or the wall, never into the attic. Run the fan after every shower and the paint and the grout last.
Spanish, Tudor and Colonial homes from the 1920s and 1930s with the original bathroom: tile set in a mortar bed, a cast-iron tub, hex tile on the floor, plaster walls. The tile outlasts everything bolted to it. We keep the tile, regrout and recaulk it, replace the faucets, the valve trim and the toilet, fit a frameless door on the old tub and hang a vanity sized to the room. Cutting into a mortar-bed wall is a remodel, and we say so.
1920s Spanish Revival apartment buildings on Fountain and Harper, and the 1950s and 1960s stucco apartment blocks that fill West Hollywood and Westwood, where four in five households rent. The bathrooms are small: a tub with a tile or fiberglass surround, a builder vanity, a fan that gave up. Owners and property managers call us at turnover for a new surround, vanity, toilet and fan on one schedule, scoped in writing for the owner, with the fixture permit handled.
Mid-century houses on hillside lots from the 1950s and 1960s, many with a 1980s or 1990s master bath already in them, and the condominium towers along Wilshire between Westwood and Holmby Hills. Up in the hills the big tiled showers leak at the door and the curb, the fan vents into the attic and the cultured-marble tops are dull. In the towers the board wants the scope in writing before the stack water is shut off. We bring the paperwork, the drop cloths and one crew for the whole list.
Call 310-928-6211 or text a photo of the vanity, the tub wall and the fan. Most refresh work is scoped from the photos and a few questions about the age of the house.
A technician measures the room, checks the floor at the toilet and the wall behind the surround, and the scope comes back in writing, item by item, with the products named.
One crew does the vanity, the surround, the door, the fixtures, the fan and the paint on one calendar, with the licensed plumber or electrician booked into it when the job needs one.
Drop cloths out, the old fixtures hauled, the room back in service, and a one-year workmanship warranty in writing with the receipt.
California lets anyone do a repair under one thousand dollars, labor and materials together, without a license, as long as the work is minor, needs no permit, nobody is employed to help and the person does not advertise as a contractor. A bathroom refresh crosses that line on the first item. Above it the state wants a licensed contractor, and the general building license Kaminskiy Care and Repair holds (License #1106209) covers a job that mixes two unrelated trades, which is what a vanity, a surround, a fan and new fixtures are. A plumbing-only job over the line or a new circuit goes to the licensed plumber or licensed electrician we schedule.
The City of Los Angeles needs no plumbing permit to replace a faucet, an exposed trap or a shut-off valve, or to swap a toilet, shower head or faucet for a water-saving one on the existing rough-in in an owner-occupied house or duplex. Paint, tile, a vanity cabinet and a top are finish work. A fan or light replaced in kind on its own circuit in a house needs no electrical permit. A surround that opens the wall, a fan where there was none, or any fixture swap in an apartment or condo is a permit, and LADBS issues those over the counter as express permits with no plan check as long as nothing structural moves. Beverly Hills and West Hollywood run their own permit counters with their own exempt lists, and we check them before we quote.
In the Wilshire Corridor towers and the West Hollywood condos the association approves a change to the unit in writing under California's common-interest law, and the stack shutoff is the building's to schedule, so the scope and our insurance certificate go to the manager first. Every single-family home in California was due to have water-saving fixtures by 2017, and any permitted job has to replace the old ones before it is signed off, so a toilet over 1.6 gallons a flush or a shower head over 2.5 gallons a minute comes out while we are there, and we haul it.
Our office is on Wilshire. The Los Angeles crew starts the day at 8383 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, so a bathroom in Bel Air, West Hollywood, Westwood or the Hollywood Hills is a short drive. Call 310-928-6211, text a photo of the room, or send the form.
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Call 310-928-6211Usually not. If the layout works and the tile is sound, a refresh replaces what wore out: vanity, surround or door, fixtures, fan, grab bars, paint, with every drain left in place. You need a remodel when a drain or a wall moves, a tub becomes a curbless shower, or a 1920s mortar-bed wall has to come out. We tell you which on the first call, and a remodel goes to a remodeling contractor.
For a bathroom refresh, we do, under our California B license, because the job mixes trades: the faucets, the toilet, the trap and the supply stops are ours. A plumbing-only job above the state's small-job line, a valve body inside the wall, a drain line or a re-pipe is the licensed plumber's, and we schedule one into the job. In an apartment or a rental the City of Los Angeles wants a licensed plumbing contractor on the fixture permit, so one is on the job there too.
A fan or a light replaced in kind on its own circuit is ours and needs no permit in a Los Angeles house. A new circuit, a fan where there was none, or a panel question goes to the licensed electrician we schedule, and a new fan in a condo or apartment gets an express permit from LADBS first.
A vanity, faucet and toilet swap is a day and you use the room that night. A tub surround or a tiled wall repair takes a few working days with cure time for the caulk and grout, and a glass door is measured after the surround is in and hung on a second visit. The days are on the written scope so a one-bath household can plan.
It is priced item by item in writing before anything is ordered: the vanity and top you choose, the surround material, the door, the fixtures, the fan, the paint, and the labor for each. A 1920s mortar-bed bathroom and a 1960s drywall one are not the same scope even with the same products. What you approve is what you pay, and a change is written up before it happens.
In an owner-occupied house, usually not: Los Angeles exempts faucet, trap and valve replacement, water-saving fixture swaps on the existing rough-in, finish work and a fan or light replaced in kind. A surround that opens the wall, a new fan location or any fixture work in an apartment or condo is an express permit over the counter, no plan check, and we pull it. Beverly Hills and West Hollywood have their own counters, and we check their lists before the quote.
Yes. A one-year workmanship warranty in writing on every bathroom job, and the fixtures carry their own manufacturer warranties, which we leave with you in the folder with the receipt.
All of the Westside and the hills from the office on Wilshire: Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Holmby Hills, Westwood, West Hollywood, the Hollywood Hills, Laurel Canyon, Hancock Park, Miracle Mile, Mid-City, Century City, Brentwood, Mar Vista and Palms. Call 310-928-6211 to confirm your address and get on the schedule.
Tell us what the bathroom needs. We'll call you back with a price and a time. Calling is still the fastest way: 310-928-6211.
A written scope first, the whole list on one schedule, 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.
