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Santa Clara doors take hard use: rentals near the university and the campuses go through tenants and keys, the postwar tracts in Killarney Farms and Westwood Oaks have sixty-year-old sliders, and the Old Quad has original doors in frames that settled a century ago. We set strikes with long screws, re-roller the sliders, rehang and plane the old doors and install the ones you bought, from our office in Sunnyvale ten minutes up the road.
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THE LISTALL DONEEvery item is a short visit for a Kaminskiy-certified technician who starts the day ten minutes away in Sunnyvale. One list, one call, photos when it is done.
Priced and on the calendar during the first call.
A written quote you approve before anyone drives out.
One crew, truck stocked, warranty in writing.
A one-year workmanship warranty, in writing, on every Santa Clara job.
The oldest homes in the city, Victorians and craftsman bungalows from the late 1800s to the 1930s, many now rentals. Original doors in settled frames, plaster walls, porches and wood siding close to the soil. We rehang and plane the doors, patch the plaster, splice the porch posts, and check the city's historic inventory before anything on the front changes.
1950s and 1960s ranch tracts with stucco, wood fascia and builder sliders, and the Pomeroy Green and Pomeroy West Eichler townhomes with their glass walls and association rules. Rollers, hinges, texture-matched patches, fascia and sills where the sprinklers reach, and the move-in list on a house that just changed hands.
Newer homes, townhomes and condos from the 1990s and 2000s, most in associations, many rented to people who move every two or three years. Doors that settled, slider rollers, drywall by the room, the balcony-report carpentry for the board, and the turnover list priced up front so the numbers stay steady between tenants.
Turnover and age. Santa Clara is a renter's city around the university and the tech campuses, and a door that is slammed, keyed and moved through every couple of years wears out long before its time. The single-family tracts are sixty years old, in valley clay that moves the doors with the seasons, with sprinklers rotting the bottoms of things. The Old Quad adds a century of settling. None of it is dramatic; all of it is cheaper this year than next.
Doors, strikes, sliders, drywall, plaster, trim, fences, balcony boards, rot, caulk and fixtures are handyman work. The roof, the electrical panel, a re-pipe, a gas line, a water heater or anything that holds the building up goes to the licensed specialty trade, and we tell you who to call. Termite treatment is the licensed pest company's; the rebuild afterward is ours.
Send the list, or photos of the worst items, and the price comes back in writing before anything is scheduled; for a landlord that is the same number on every turnover, so the budget stays predictable. A rotted frame, a balcony or a bath refresh gets a look first and a written scope. What you approve is what you pay.
Between tenants the list is always the same: nail holes and a doorknob hole by the room, a strike that stopped catching, a split hollow-core door, blinds, a fan, the caulk line in the bath, and a lock to rekey. One Kaminskiy-certified technician clears it in one trip with a stocked truck, and you get photos when it is done, so the unit is ready for the next move-in without a second visit.
The sticking door, the drywall hole, the gate that drags. Call or text it over and we price it on the call, in writing.
Hinges, strikes, weatherstrip, anchors, compound, fasteners and the common parts ride on the truck, so one visit usually clears the list.
Anything that needs opening a wall, rebuilding a frame or matching a finish gets a look and a written price before we start.
We tidy up, walk you through what was done, and the one-year workmanship warranty is in writing.
In California a small repair below a set amount can be done without a contractor license when it needs no permit and nobody is employed to do it, which covers a strike plate and not much else on a real list. Kaminskiy Care and Repair holds a California contractor license (License #1106209), is bonded and insured, and its technicians are Kaminskiy-certified and background checked, so a door swap, a rot rebuild or a balcony railing is squarely inside the law with us. Any job over the state's written-contract threshold goes on paper before it starts, which landlords appreciate at tax time.
Santa Clara publishes no exempt-work handout of its own, so the state residential code is the rule: no application or notice for an ordinary repair to a structure, painting and similar finish work exempt, and the line drawn at cutting a structural beam or a load-bearing support. A rehung door, a patched wall, a rebuilt sill or a run of trim is ordinary repair work; a fence over seven feet, an enlarged opening or a deck takes a permit from the Building Division on Warburton Avenue, and we check with the desk before we quote anything near that line.
A landlord's repair list is a habitability list in California, and we work it between tenants with the manager's key and photos when it is done. Old Quad homes on the city's historic inventory get a review before the front changes; a matching repair needs nothing. Rivermark, the Pomeroy Eichler townhomes and the newer condo communities have associations that approve exterior doors and colors, and the balcony inspection law puts the railing and board carpentry the report flags on our list, scoped in writing for the board.
Ten minutes up El Camino from our office. Your Santa Clara crew dispatches from our South Bay office on Murphy Avenue in Sunnyvale, straight up El Camino Real or Central Expressway, so a turnover or a weekend list is usually on the calendar within days. Call 408-916-4022, text a photo, or send the form. The whole South Bay is on our San Jose handyman page.
Reviewed by Sergei Kaminskiy, founder, November 7, 2026.
Can't find your answer? Call 408-916-4022 and ask us anything.
Call 408-916-4022Our office is ten minutes away on Murphy Avenue in Sunnyvale. We answer in under three rings, price most repairs on the call and usually have a technician at the house or the unit within days, and a turnover can be scheduled for the day the tenants hand back the keys.
The price comes on the call, in writing, from your description or photos, before anything is scheduled, and for a landlord the turnover list prices the same way every time. A rotted frame, a balcony or a bath refresh gets a look first and a written scope. No surprises when we arrive.
That is a normal Santa Clara morning for us. Nail holes by the room, the strike that stopped catching, the split bedroom door, the blinds, the fan, the bath caulk and the rekey go on one list, and one Kaminskiy-certified technician with a stocked truck clears it between tenants and sends photos.
Yes. Kaminskiy Care and Repair holds a California contractor license (License #1106209), is bonded and insured, and every technician is Kaminskiy-certified and background checked. Every job carries our one-year workmanship warranty in writing, which goes in the landlord's file.
Not ordinary repairs or finish work: Santa Clara builds to the state residential code, which asks no application for a repaired sill, wall, trim run or door and exempts painting and similar work. A fence over seven feet, an enlarged opening, a deck or anything that cuts a structural member takes a permit, and we check with the Building Division first and tell you what it said.
Usually, yes. The wheels and the track wear long before the glass does. We fit new rollers, true the track, reset the latch and keep anything visible from outside to the association's rules, with the materials in writing if the board asks.
All of Santa Clara from our Sunnyvale office, including the Old Quad, Killarney Farms, Westwood Oaks, Pomeroy, Bracher, Homeridge Park, Agnew and Rivermark, plus Sunnyvale, San Jose, Cupertino and Campbell. Call 408-916-4022 to confirm your address and get on the schedule.
Tell us the list, or text a photo, and we call back with a written price and a time. Calling is still faster: 408-916-4022.
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 Santa Clara 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.
