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Los Angeles doors run from 1920s Craftsman and Spanish originals in the flats to walls of glass on the hillside streets and tract sliders on the Westside, and the houses have settled under all of them. We rebuild the frame, rehang the original, replace the rollers and install the door you bought, with the city's express permit pulled when a new one needs it.
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THE LISTALL DONEEvery item is routine for a Kaminskiy-certified technician who works the Westside from our Wilshire office. One list, one call.
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 job is backed in writing by our workmanship warranty and done by a Kaminskiy-certified, background checked technician.
1920s and 1930s Spanish, Tudor and Craftsman homes with original doors, wood-sash windows, plaster walls and exposed rafter tails. Doors bind in settled frames, plaster cracks reopen, sills and tails go soft behind a dripping gutter. Hancock Park, Miracle Mile and Carthay Circle are historic overlay zones, so we keep every repair in kind and match what is there.
Post-and-beam houses from the 1950s and 1960s, decks over the slope, retaining walls and stairs down to the street, all in the very high fire hazard zone. Frames rack as the hill creeps, deck boards and railing posts go soft, beam ends check in the sun. We true the frame, rebuild the boards and posts, and check the fire rule before an exterior door changes.
Mid-century tracts and wood-sided bungalows under the marine layer. Hardware corrodes, sliders wear their rollers, the bottom courses of lap siding and the sills facing the water go first, and the duplexes turn over tenant by tenant. We fit hardware that lasts near the coast, rebuild the siding by the course and price a turnover list up front.
Age and three climates. Most of the city went up between 1910 and 1965, so the doors, frames, sash and trim are original and the houses have settled for decades. The Westside sits under the marine layer half the year, the hills bake from July to October and creep when it rains, and the flats are irrigated every morning. None of it is dramatic; all of it is cheaper this year than next.
Doors, drywall, plaster patches, trim, fences, decks, rot, caulk and fixtures are handyman work. A roof, an electrical panel, a gas line, a re-pipe or a beam that holds the house up goes to the licensed specialty trade, and we say so on the call. Termite treatment and the report belong to the licensed pest company; the rafter tails and sills they list are ours.
Most Los Angeles jobs are priced on the call from your description or a photo, in writing, before anything goes on the calendar. A rebuilt frame, a hillside deck or a bathroom refresh gets a look first and a written scope. The number you approve is the number at the house, Mid-City or the Palisades.
Hancock Park, Miracle Mile, Carthay Circle and Whitley Heights are historic preservation overlay zones: a repair that keeps the original door, sash or trim is the easy path, and a changed front door goes through the zone's review first. Everywhere in the city a same-size door swap is an express permit at the LADBS counter, and we pull it as part of the job.
We answer in under three rings and most repairs are priced on the call, in writing, before anything is booked.
The technician arrives with the hardware, patching and fastening stock the usual list needs, so the first visit is the working visit.
Rot, a frame rebuild, a slider swap or a bathroom item gets a look and a written scope. You approve before work begins.
Every job is backed by our one-year workmanship warranty, and the area is clean when we leave.
California lets anyone take a repair job under a set small amount without a license, as long as it needs no permit and nobody is employed to do it. Above that line the state wants a licensed contractor, and most of the jobs on a real to-do list cross it: a door swap, a run of rot, a deck railing. Kaminskiy Care and Repair holds a California contractor license (License #1106209), carries the insurance, and puts every job over the state's written-contract threshold on paper before it starts, which is why the price comes in writing even for the small ones.
The City of Los Angeles reads the rule tightly. LADBS needs no permit for painting, papering and similar finish work, for a platform or walk under thirty inches, or for regulated work under a small set value that does not touch structural stability; beyond that the Building Code asks for a permit to alter or repair a structure, and a same-size door change-out is an express permit over the counter. A patched wall, a rehung door or a trim piece painted to match is usually the first kind; a rebuild into rafter tails or framing is the second, and we tell you which on the call rather than guess.
In an HPOZ such as Hancock Park or Miracle Mile, changes to the outside go through the zone's board and a repair in kind does not. The hillside streets have been a very high fire hazard zone since 1999, so a new exterior door there is checked against the wildfire standard before you buy it. The condo buildings along Wilshire and on the Westside carry California's balcony inspection law, and the boards, posts and trim the report flags are our lane, scoped in writing for the board.
Our Westside office is on Wilshire. The Los Angeles crew works out of the Beverly Hills office at 8383 Wilshire Boulevard and covers the flats, the hillside streets and the Westside from there. Call 310-928-6211, text a photo, or send the form, and we answer in under three rings.
Can't find your answer? Call 310-928-6211 and ask us anything.
Call 310-928-6211We answer in under three rings, price most repairs on the call and usually schedule within days. The crew leaves from our Beverly Hills office on Wilshire, so Mid-City, the hills and the Westside are all a short run, traffic allowing.
It depends on the list. Describe it or text a photo of the worst item and the price comes on the call, in writing, before anything is scheduled. A rebuilt frame, a hillside deck or a bathroom item gets a look first and a written scope. No service-call surprise at the house.
That is the point. The sticking door, the plaster crack, the slider rollers and the gate go on one list, and one Kaminskiy-certified technician with a stocked truck works through it. Anything needing a special-order part is scheduled before we leave.
Both, in the way that matters. Kaminskiy Care and Repair holds a California contractor license (License #1106209), is bonded and insured, and every technician is Kaminskiy-certified and background checked, so a door swap, a rot rebuild or a deck railing is inside the law with us where an unlicensed handyman has to stop at a small job.
Not painting and finish work, and not small work under the city's set value that does not touch structural stability, which covers a patched wall, a rehung door or a trim piece painted to match. A new door in the same opening is an express permit we pull over the counter; rafter tails, a beam or framing is a permit with plan check, and we tell you on the call.
Yes. A repair that keeps the original door, sash or trim is what the overlay zone wants to see, and we keep it in kind and match the profile and the finish. A new front door or a changed exterior detail goes to the zone's board first, and we say so before you buy anything.
The Westside and the hills from our Beverly Hills office: Mid-City, Hancock Park, Larchmont, Miracle Mile, Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Mar Vista, Palms, Cheviot Hills, Brentwood and Pacific Palisades, plus Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Westwood, West Hollywood, the Hollywood Hills and Culver City. Call 310-928-6211 to confirm your address.
Tell us what needs fixing. We'll call you back with a price and a time. Calling is still the fastest way: 310-928-6211.
Close to one of these but not on the list? Call anyway. If we can reach you, we will.
Ready to cross it off the list? Free quotes, a local Los Angeles crew, and a 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.
