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Kaminskiy Care and Repair repairs water damage and mold damage on drywall, ceilings, trim and cabinets: the leak confirmed stopped, wet material removed, the area dried and treated, then rebuilt and painted to match. Large scale remediation and air testing are referred to a licensed specialist, and we handle the rebuild after. We serve Newport Beach and the surrounding California communities.
Ten minutes up Jamboree. Salt-eaten flashing on the islands and fifty-year-old plumbing on the bluffs write the Newport Beach list.
Newport Beach has water on three sides and it gets in three ways. On the Peninsula and the islands the salt eats the window flashing and the storm drives rain past it, and the bay sits close under a raised floor. On the bluffs a 1960s supply line or shower pan fails inside a plaster wall. On the Coast a deck over a room opens at the wall. We have the licensed plumber or roofer stop it, cut out what is wet, dry the cavity and rebuild to match.
AFTERBEFOREAll of these are dry-out and rebuild work for a Kaminskiy-certified technician from our Orange County office: one scope in writing, the licensed trade on the same calendar, and one crew for the drywall, the plaster, the trim and the paint.
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 Newport Beach water damage repair.
Because the water is still getting in. In Newport Beach that is flashing the salt has eaten, a slider track the wind fills every storm, a crawl space that has not dried since the last king tide, a pinhole in a 1960s slab loop, or a deck coating open at the wall. Paint over the ring bleeds through in weeks, and the fog side of a wall can take a month to dry on its own. We trace the source with a moisture meter, have the licensed trade stop it, and run drying equipment until the cavity reads dry before any wall closes.
Drywall that got damp once and is still firm can be dried, sealed with a stain-blocking primer and refinished. Drywall that stayed wet, swelled at the joints or sagged comes out with the insulation behind it; plaster that is soft or loose on the lath comes out to sound edges; baseboard that swelled is replaced. On the islands the subfloor matters: boards that dry flat and stay firm remain, plywood that delaminated goes, and a joist that stays soft is the engineer's call before we rebuild. We probe and meter at the look, and the written scope says what comes out.
California licenses no mold remediation trade, so there is no licensed remediation company to find on a state list; the state's health guidance is to remove visible growth and fix the moisture behind it. A small surface spot on drywall, trim or grout comes out with the material and we treat the framing. Growth across a wall, inside a cavity, under a damp crawl space floor or in the ducts, or anyone in the house with breathing trouble, calls for a remediation company with industry certification and containment, and air or surface testing is theirs too. We say so at the look and rebuild after their clearance.
On the water side, recaulk the window heads and slider frames each fall, keep the weep holes clear, and have the flashing looked at when the paint lifts. Keep the crawl space vents open and the ground under the house visible. In a second home, shut the water off at the main when you leave and have someone walk the house after a storm. On the bluffs, swap rubber washer hoses for braided steel, put a pan and a shutoff on the water heater, and watch the bill for a slab leak. Most of what we rebuild here ran for weeks before anyone saw it.
Cottages and bay-front homes with wood siding, sashes and sliders facing the harbor, many on raised floors over a crawl space that sits a few feet above the bay. The salt pits the flashing and the slider track, the winter storm drives rain past both, the fog keeps a wet wall from drying for weeks, and on a king tide the water comes up the street and under the house. A lot of these are second homes and summer rentals, so a leak runs until somebody arrives. We cut out the wet drywall, sill and subfloor, dry the cavity and the crawl space with equipment, rebuild and paint, and the licensed roofer or the window installer we name fixes the flashing before the wall closes. We plan the walk from the truck where there is no driveway.
Houses from the 1950s to the 1970s on slabs, with plaster or early drywall, the copper hot-water loop under the floor, galvanized supply in the earliest, cast iron drains and tile showers on their first pans, plus open-beam patio covers bolted to the house. The slab leak is a warm floor and a bill that jumps; the shower pan is a soft wall in the bedroom behind the tub; the patio cover ledger lets the rain into the wall. We open what the licensed plumber needs, dry the slab edge and the studs, and rebuild plaster or drywall, baseboard and flooring edge to match once the line is rerouted overhead. A pre-1980 plaster or popcorn ceiling gets a sample tested before we cut.
Newer stucco homes and condos on slope lots facing the ocean wind, with decks and balconies over the rooms below, walls of glass doors, upstairs laundries and attic air handlers. The deck coating splits at the wall and the ceiling under it stains; a door track on the wind side fills and overflows; a washer hose upstairs lets go and the water runs down inside the wall; in a condo the leak is often the unit above. We take out what is wet on both floors, dry them, rebuild and paint to the association's interior scheme, and write the scope so the manager and both insurers can read who owns which wall and which deck.
Call 714-844-1582 or text a photo of the stain, the lifting paint or the soft floor. Most repairs get a range on the call and a date for the look, ten minutes up Jamboree from our office; for a second home we work from your photos and a lockbox.
A technician traces the water with a moisture meter through the drywall or plaster, the sill, the framing and, on a raised floor, the subfloor and the crawl space, then writes the scope: what comes out, how long the drying runs, which licensed trade stops the source, what is rebuilt, and the price.
The licensed plumber or roofer we schedule stops the leak. We cut out the wet drywall, plaster, insulation and trim, set the drying equipment, treat the framing, then rebuild, texture or skim, and paint, usually over a few visits in a week or so, longer when a crawl space has to dry.
Photos of the open wall and the meter log go in your file for the insurer or the association, and pictures of the finished room go to you if you are away. The dust leaves with us, and the one-year workmanship warranty is on the invoice.
California allows a repair under a set small amount without a license when no permit is needed and nobody is employed to help; a water damage rebuild is past that line once a sheet of drywall or a run of subfloor comes out. Kaminskiy Care and Repair is a licensed California contractor (License #1106209), bonded and insured, with Kaminskiy-certified, background-checked technicians, and every job over the state's written-contract threshold goes on paper before it starts. The leak is a licensed trade's: a slab line, a supply or a shower valve to the licensed plumber, the roof and the flashing to the licensed roofer, and we put them on the same calendar.
Newport Beach builds to the California Residential Code, which asks no application for an ordinary repair to a structure and exempts painting and similar finish work, so a patched ceiling or a wall rebuilt like for like is that kind of work. The city publishes no exempt list of its own, but it does permit replacement windows and sliding doors, which matters when a leaking window is the cause, and it permits deck dry rot repair, so a subfloor, a joist or a deck the water softened gets a call to the Building Division before the quote, and we make it and pull the permit when it says so. The plumber's and the roofer's work carries its own permit.
A burst line, a failed water heater or a storm through a sound roof is the sudden loss most policies cover; a slab leak is often covered for the tear-out and the rebuild and not for the pipe; water that came up the street on a king tide or rose through the crawl space is flood, which a homeowner policy usually excludes and a flood policy covers, and a leak that ran for weeks in an empty second home is a question for the adjuster. We photograph the open wall, log the meter readings and write a scope your adjuster can read; we do not negotiate claims, which a public adjuster licensed by the Department of Insurance does. In the Newport Coast, Eastbluff and island condo associations California's common-interest law puts the common area on the association and the unit on you unless the CC&Rs say otherwise, and the balcony inspection law covers the decks over living space, so whose wall or deck the leak lives in is settled with the manager before the scope is final.
Ten minutes up Jamboree. Your Newport Beach crew dispatches from our Orange County office on Michelson Drive in Irvine, ten minutes from the Back Bay, and carries stainless hardware for the islands. Call 714-844-1582, text a photo, or send the form.
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Call 714-844-1582No, that belongs to a remediation company, not to us. We cut out and replace the drywall, plaster, trim, insulation, subfloor and cabinet panels the water ruined and treat the framing, and a small surface spot comes out with the material. Growth across a wall, inside a cavity, under a damp crawl space floor or in the ducts, and any air or surface testing, go to a remediation company with industry certification; California licenses none, so we tell you who we trust and rebuild after their clearance.
Nearly always. In Newport Beach the usual suspects are salt-eaten window and slider flashing on the water side, a crawl space that never dried, the hot-water loop under a 1960s slab on the bluffs, a shower pan from the same decade, a deck coating open at the wall on the Coast, an upstairs washer hose and, in a condo, the unit above. We trace the path with a moisture meter before anything is closed, and the licensed plumber or roofer confirms and fixes it; a rebuild over a live leak is money spent twice.
Yes. The cottages are smooth or hand-textured, the bluff houses are plaster or early orange peel, and the Coast is orange peel or smooth level finish. We rebuild with the same material, carry the texture or skim across the patch, prime with a stain-blocking primer and paint to the corner so the repair disappears. A plaster or popcorn ceiling from before 1980 gets a sample tested before we touch it.
It depends on how far the water ran, how long it sat and whether a crawl space has to dry. Text a photo and you get a range on the call; after the look you get a written scope with the tear-out, the drying, the rebuild and the licensed trade priced before anything starts. A Balboa Island job with a walk from the truck and a bluff job with a driveway are priced as the different visits they are, and you see the number first.
Often, when the cause was sudden: a burst line, a failed water heater, a storm through a sound roof. A slab leak is often covered for the tear-out and the rebuild and not for the pipe. Tide water, ground water and slow leaks usually are not covered under the homeowner policy, and the policy and the adjuster decide. We give you photos of the open wall, meter readings and a line-item scope; we do not adjust claims, and a public adjuster licensed by the state does if you want one.
Yes, and a lot of our Newport Beach work goes that way. Send the photos your neighbor or manager took, give us a lockbox code, and we do the look, send you the written scope, schedule the licensed trade, dry and rebuild, and send pictures of the finished room. We leave the house ready for the weekend you arrive and the shutoff where you can find it.
All of Newport Beach from our Irvine office: the Balboa Peninsula, Balboa Island, Lido Isle, Corona del Mar, West Newport, Newport Heights, Westcliff, Dover Shores, Eastbluff, Big Canyon, Newport Coast and Crystal Cove, plus Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach and Laguna Beach. Call 714-844-1582 to confirm your address.
Tell us where the stain or soft spot is. We'll call you back with a price and a time. Calling is still the fastest way: 714-844-1582.
Dried out, rebuilt and painted to match, warranted in writing.
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