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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 Sunnyvale and the surrounding California communities.
Our office is on Murphy Avenue. Eichler baths and 1960s tract baths lead the Sunnyvale list.
A Sunnyvale bathroom refresh keeps the room where it is and replaces what has worn out: a new vanity and top, a tub or shower surround, a shower door, faucets and a toilet, grab bars, an exhaust fan, the tile and caulk repaired and the walls painted. New products go in; caulk and grout alone is never the whole job. In an Eichler nothing moves, because the drains and the radiant loop run in the slab, and that is exactly what a refresh is for.
AFTERBEFOREOur office is a few minutes from every one of these. A Kaminskiy-certified technician prices the fixture swaps on the call; a surround or a whole-room refresh gets a look and a written scope first.
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 Sunnyvale bathroom job.
Age, water and steam. Most Sunnyvale bathrooms were built in the 1950s and 1960s, and the original tile was set on a backing never meant to stay wet for sixty years, so the grout line at the tub lip opens, water gets behind it and the wall goes soft. The city's own wells draw the county's groundwater, which Valley Water calls very hard, and that water is blended into much of the supply, so scale crusts showerheads, aerators and glass and stiffens valves. Add an Eichler bath with a skylight and no fan, and the paint and the caulk give up early.
A refresh keeps the room where it is: vanity, top, surround, door, faucets, toilet, grab bars, fan, tile and caulk repair, paint. That is our work, and in an Eichler it is usually the right call, because the drains and the radiant loop are in the slab and moving them means cutting it. Moving a wall, a drain or the toilet, a curbless shower that drops into the slab, or a bath taken down to the studs is a remodel, and that goes to a remodeling contractor. We say which on the first call.
Kaminskiy Care and Repair is a licensed California B general building contractor. California lets a B contractor do the plumbing and electrical that belong to a job using two or more unrelated trades, and a bathroom refresh is that job, so our technician sets the faucet, the toilet, the trap and the fan as part of it. A plumbing-only call, a re-pipe, a leak under the slab or a new electrical circuit goes to a licensed plumber or a licensed electrician, and we tell you so rather than stretch.
Run the fan during the shower and twenty minutes after; in an Eichler with no fan, that is the first thing we add. Recaulk the tub lip and the door frame the year the bead cracks, not the year the wall goes soft. Wipe the glass and soak the showerhead in vinegar twice a year against the scale. And look under the vanity once a season: a damp ring at the trap caught early is a tightened nut, caught late it is a new cabinet.
About 1,100 Eichlers in sixteen tracts built from 1954 to 1962, and the ranch tracts around them. The original Eichler bath is small: 4-by-4 tile in pastel colors or enameled steel, a mahogany vanity, a framed aluminum shower door, an acrylic bubble skylight and often no exhaust fan, with the drains, the supply lines and the radiant loop poured into the slab. A refresh keeps the footprint, puts a new vanity, surround, door and fan where the old ones were, and never drills or moves anything in that slab.
The oldest houses in the city, some from the 1900s to the 1930s, with one bath added or rebuilt more than once, beside 1960s and 1970s stucco tracts with the builder's tub-and-tile bath. In the old houses we check the subfloor at the toilet before a new one goes on and reset the flange if it needs it. In the tracts the job is the tired tub surround, a vanity that fits the old plumbing stub-outs, and a fan where there was only a window.
Compact 1950s homes with one small bath, and 1970s and 1980s condos and townhomes with fiberglass tub units, cultured-marble tops and a second-floor bath over someone else's ceiling. We scope a condo bath in writing for the association when its rules ask for it, test every connection before we leave so the floor below stays dry, and in the small 1950s baths pick the vanity and the door by the inch.
Call 408-916-4022 or text two photos: the whole room from the door and the part that worries you. Faucets, a toilet, grab bars and a fan are priced on that call, in writing.
A surround, a vanity or the whole room gets a look first, which costs nothing from an office this close. You get a written scope with every product named, and you approve it before anything is ordered.
One Kaminskiy-certified technician, one schedule: demo, the surround, the vanity and top, the door, the fixtures, the fan, the tile and caulk, the paint. We tell you which days the bath is out of service before we start.
The room is cleaned, every connection is run and checked for a drip, and the one-year workmanship warranty is in writing on the invoice.
Under California law a job under a small set amount may be done without a contractor license, but only when no building permit is needed and no one is employed to do it, and never by splitting a bigger job into pieces; a bathroom refresh passes that line with the first vanity. Kaminskiy Care and Repair is a licensed California contractor (License #1106209), bonded and insured. The state lets a B general building contractor do the plumbing and electrical inside a job that uses two or more unrelated trades, which is what a refresh is, so our technician sets the toilet, the faucet, the trap and the fan. A plumbing-only job or new wiring goes to the licensed plumber or electrician, and every job over the state's written-contract threshold is on paper first.
Sunnyvale's own sheet of work that needs no building permit lists the repair or replacement of an existing toilet, faucet or sink in the same location, with the reminder that the list is not all-inclusive and that exempt work still has to meet the code. The city's bathroom remodel handout, in force for permits filed from January 1, 2026, draws the next line: one fixture swapped in the same spot needs no permit, but updating two or more plumbing fixtures, or bringing in another trade, is a bathroom remodel permit. So a toilet or a faucet on its own is no permit; a new vanity with a new tub surround and a fan is a permit, we pull it, and the inspector sees the work. Anything that moves a pipe or cuts the slab is a permit every time.
California's Civil Code says every single-family home should by now have water-conserving fixtures, and when a permit is pulled for an alteration the building department requires the old ones replaced before it signs off: a toilet over one and six-tenths gallons a flush, a showerhead over two and a half gallons a minute, a faucet over two and two-tenths. Every product we install meets that, so the inspection is a formality. Most Sunnyvale single-family streets have no association, and the city's Eichler design guidelines care about how the house reads from the street, not the bath. The condos and townhomes toward the Bay do have rules: the association's architectural form, work hours and the floor below, and we scope the job in writing for the board.
Our office is downtown on Murphy Avenue. The South Bay crew starts the day at 100 S Murphy Avenue, a few minutes from any Sunnyvale bathroom, which is why a look at a surround or a vanity costs nothing here. Call 408-916-4022, text a photo, or send the form.
Reviewed by Sergei Kaminskiy, founder, November 7, 2026.
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Call 408-916-4022Usually not. If the room works where it is and the bones are sound, a refresh replaces what has worn out: vanity and top, surround, door, faucets, toilet, grab bars, fan, tile and caulk repair, paint. In an Eichler that is almost always the right call, because the drains and the radiant loop are in the slab. If you want the toilet moved, a wall gone or a curbless shower cut into the slab, that is a remodel and we point you to a remodeling contractor.
For the fixture swaps that belong to the refresh, we do. Kaminskiy Care and Repair holds a California B general building contractor license (License #1106209), and the state lets a B contractor do the plumbing and electrical inside a job that uses two or more unrelated trades. A plumbing-only call, a re-pipe, a leak under an Eichler slab or new wiring goes to a licensed plumber or a licensed electrician, and we tell you before we start.
A faucet, a toilet, grab bars or a fan takes a few hours and the room is yours that evening. A vanity and top is about a day. A tub or shower surround with a new door is a few working days plus the caulk's cure before the first shower, and a whole-room refresh with a permit runs about a week with the inspection. The days go in the written scope, and for a one-bath Eichler we plan the order of work so you are never without a toilet overnight.
It depends on what goes in, so we price it from your photos or a look, in writing, product by product, before anything is ordered. A single fixture is priced on the call. A surround, a vanity or the whole room gets a written scope you approve first, and what you approve is what you pay. We do not sell the remodel you did not ask for.
Yes. Every Sunnyvale bathroom job carries our one-year workmanship warranty in writing, and the products carry their makers' warranties on top. Every connection is run and checked for a drip before we leave, and if a seal or a joint we made fails inside the year, we come back and make it right.
One toilet, faucet or sink replaced in the same spot needs none; it is on the city's own list of work that needs no building permit. Sunnyvale's bathroom remodel handout says that updating two or more plumbing fixtures, or bringing in another trade, is a permit, so a vanity with a new surround and a fan is one, and we pull it. The permit also brings the state's water-saving fixture rule, which every product we install already meets.
Yes, and we like them. The bath stays in its footprint; the vanity, surround, door, faucets and toilet go where the old ones were, so nothing in the slab moves. We add the exhaust fan most original Eichler baths never had, pick a surround and a door that read right against the house, and never drill the slab blind, because the radiant loop and the supply lines run through it. A leak under that slab is a licensed plumber's job, not ours.
All of Sunnyvale from Murphy Avenue, including Fairbrae, Fairwood, Cherry Chase, Birdland, Las Palmas, the Heritage District, Ponderosa Park, Raynor, Lakewood and San Miguel, plus Mountain View, Cupertino, Santa Clara, Los Altos and San Jose. Call 408-916-4022 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: 408-916-4022.
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.
