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A mile of coast, a marine layer that hangs on until June and a lot of wood doors on the beach streets: hinges seize, deadbolts stain, doors swell through the winter and the French doors to the patio rub in the middle. We plane, seal, rehang, fit hardware the salt will not take, and install the door you bought.
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THE LISTALL DONEShort jobs, all of them, for a Kaminskiy-certified technician who works the coast every week. Send the list and we price it on the call.
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 Solana Beach job.
Cottages and condos within a few hundred yards of the water. Salt takes the hardware, fog keeps the wood damp, decks and railings facing the ocean go soft, and the fix is stainless hardware, sealed end grain and wood that sheds water. Bluff lots get checked before anything bigger than a repair.
Older homes, some of the oldest in the city, with original doors, wood windows and trim close to the soil. Doors bind in settled frames, trim rots at the bottom, and the repairs have to match what is there. We splice new wood into old and keep the character.
1970s and 1980s homes and condos with sliders, patio covers and association schemes. Rollers and hinges at forty years, fascia where the sprinklers reach, and the balcony-report carpentry on the condos, matched to the approved style.
Nothing in Solana Beach is more than a mile from the ocean, so every house gets the coastal treatment: fog most mornings into June, salt on the wind, sand in the tracks. Bluff-top condos lose their railings a board at a time, Eden Gardens cottages lose the bottoms of their doors, and the hill homes lose their sliders to forty-year-old rollers. Small jobs, steadily.
If it is a door, a railing, a run of trim, a wall, a deck board, a caulk line or a fixture, it is ours. If it is the roof itself, the electrical panel, the plumbing behind the wall or a beam that holds the house up, it belongs to the licensed specialty trade and we tell you who to call. Termite treatment is the pest company's; we rebuild afterward.
Most Solana Beach jobs are priced on the call, in writing, from your description or a photo, before anything is scheduled. An ocean-facing deck, a rebuilt frame or a bathroom refresh gets a look first and a written scope. The price you approve is the price at the house.
The bluff-top and beach-street decks take the worst of it: wind-driven salt on the top of every board, fog underneath, and a railing post that rots at the base where the deck meets it. We replace boards and posts before the whole deck needs rebuilding, seal the cut ends, and say so plainly when a ledger or a joist has gone past what a repair can do.
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.
Under California law a job below a small set amount may be done without a license, provided it needs no permit and no employees; beyond that the state requires a licensed contractor, which is where a beach-house list lands by the second item. Kaminskiy Care and Repair is licensed (License #1106209), bonded and insured, and anything over the state's written-contract threshold is on paper before the first visit.
Solana Beach builds to the California Residential Code, which asks for no application or notice for ordinary repairs to a structure and exempts painting and similar finish work: a rehung door, a rebuilt sill, a patched wall, a run of siding. The code draws the line at cutting a structural beam or a load-bearing support, and work that deep gets a permit and an engineer, which we tell you on the call.
Most of Solana Beach has no association; Isla Verde, Seascape and a few hillside communities do, and a repair painted to match rarely needs a form. On the bluff and beach streets the coastal rules are about new development and views, not a rebuilt sill, and we check before anything bigger. The condo associations carry California's balcony inspection law, and the railing and board carpentry the report flags is our lane.
Down the 5 from the rest of the county. Your Solana Beach crew dispatches from our San Diego office on World Trade Drive and carries stainless hardware for the beach streets. Call 858-330-5590, text a photo, or send the form, and we answer in under three rings. The whole county is on our San Diego handyman page.
Can't find your answer? Call 858-330-5590 and ask us anything.
Call 858-330-5590We answer in under three rings, price most repairs on the call and usually schedule within days from our World Trade Drive office. For a second home or a rental we can work from photos and a lockbox and send pictures when the list is done.
Describe the job or text a photo and the price comes on the call, in writing, before anything is booked. An ocean-facing deck, a rebuilt frame or a bathroom refresh gets a look first and a written scope. No surprises at the house.
Yes. The sticking door, the pitted lock, the loose railing and the drywall patch go on one list, and one Kaminskiy-certified technician with a stocked truck works through it on the day the place is empty.
Yes. Kaminskiy Care and Repair is a licensed California contractor (License #1106209), bonded and insured, and every technician is Kaminskiy-certified and background checked. A one-year workmanship warranty comes in writing with every job, the beach-street door and the bluff-top railing alike.
Not ordinary repairs or finish work: the California Residential Code that Solana Beach builds to asks for no application for an ordinary repair and exempts painting and similar work. Cutting a structural member, or anything on a bluff lot bigger than a repair, is where we check with the city first.
Usually a repair: the post has rotted at its base where it meets the deck, and we replace the post and the boards around it and seal the cut ends. If the ledger or the joists underneath have gone soft too, we tell you before anything comes apart and what the next step is.
All of Solana Beach, including Fletcher Cove, Seascape, the Cedros district, Eden Gardens, La Colonia, Lomas Santa Fe and Isla Verde, plus Del Mar, Cardiff, Encinitas and Rancho Santa Fe. Call 858-330-5590 to confirm your address.
Tell us the list, or text a photo, and we call back with a written price and a time. Calling is still faster: 858-330-5590.
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 Solana Beach 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.
