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West Hollywood is mostly apartments, condos and bungalow courts, so its doors work hard: unit doors that open twenty times a day, courtyard gates-in-doors, closers that slam or quit, French doors to a small patio, and original 1920s doors in the Spanish Revival and Art Deco courtyard buildings the city has designated. We rehang, replace the hardware and the closer, rebuild the split frame and install the door the owner bought, for owners, managers and renters with the go-ahead.
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THE LISTALL DONEEach of these is a short visit for a Kaminskiy-certified technician who starts the day a few blocks south on Wilshire. One list per unit or per building, one price in writing.
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 West Hollywood job.
Single-family 1920s and 1930s homes with wood-sash windows, rafter tails and lap siding under a neighborhood overlay that keeps the street side as it was, and hillside houses above the Strip where frames rack and the new fire-zone rules reach. We rebuild to the same profile and finish, true the frames and check the fire rule before an exterior door changes.
Bungalow courts and 1920s Spanish Revival and Art Deco courtyard buildings, many of them designated cultural resources, with wood siding, porch posts, shared walks that stay damp and original doors worth keeping. The bottom courses, the post bases and the jamb bottoms go first. We rebuild them in kind, keep the original doors and price a shared court once for both sides.
Apartments and duplexes with busy doors and tenant turnover, and the condominium buildings whose balconies, walkways and railings now get inspected by law. We work several units in one visit for a manager, fix the split frames and the failed closers, and when a balcony report flags soft boards or a rotted post we rebuild it and scope it in writing for the board.
Use, age and density. About eight in ten West Hollywood homes are rented, so doors, closers, locks and bathrooms wear out on a schedule a single-family house never sees, and the courts and duplexes went up in the 1920s and 1930s on lots so tight that one unit's downspout empties at the next unit's post. The paint has been touched up for decades rather than redone. None of it is big; all of it is cheaper this turnover than next.
Doors and closers, drywall, trim, siding, porch posts, balcony boards and railings, rot, caulk and fixtures are handyman work. A roof, an electrical panel, a gas line, a re-pipe or a beam that holds the building up goes to the licensed specialty trade, and we say so on the call. A rotted balcony ledger goes to the engineer first, and we tell the board that in writing.
For a unit, text the list and a photo of the worst item and the price comes on the call, in writing. For a building, send the list by unit and it comes back as one written price, item by item, that the manager can approve all of or part of. A whole court's siding or a balcony list is sized after a look. Renters get the same price, for whoever is paying.
Renters can book us with the landlord's or manager's go-ahead, and small items are usually a text away from a yes. Condo owners approve work inside the unit and the association approves the door and the balcony. Most of the single-family streets have no association at all; the city's overlay and its cultural-resource rules do that work, and we keep the street face in kind.
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 a repair under a small set amount be done without a license when it needs no permit and nobody is employed to do it; above that line the state wants a licensed contractor, and a building list, a rotted porch post or a balcony railing is above it. Kaminskiy Care and Repair is a licensed California contractor (License #1106209), bonded and insured, with Kaminskiy-certified, background-checked technicians, and jobs over the state's written-contract threshold go on paper first, which for a manager is the point.
West Hollywood keeps its own list of work exempt from a building permit, under its building code, and builds to the California codes. The state residential code it builds to needs no application for ordinary repairs to a structure and exempts painting and similar finish work, which is where a rehung unit door, a patched wall, a rebuilt sill or a run of siding falls; it draws the line at cutting a structural beam or a load-bearing support. We check the city's list before a bigger job rather than quote it.
West Hollywood has designated roughly ninety cultural resources, many of them 1920s courtyard buildings on Fountain, Harper and Havenhurst: an exterior change on one goes through a Certificate of Appropriateness, and a repair that preserves the resource is what the city wants to see, so we photograph before and after. Condo associations carry California's balcony inspection law and apartment owners their own version, and the wood the report flags is our lane. West Hollywood West keeps its street faces under a neighborhood overlay.
A few blocks south, on Wilshire. Your West Hollywood crew dispatches from our Beverly Hills office at 8383 Wilshire, a few blocks down La Cienega, which is why a unit or a building list is usually on the calendar within days. Call 310-928-6211, text the list, or send the form. The whole Westside is on our Los Angeles handyman page.
Can't find your answer? Call 310-928-6211 and ask us anything.
Call 310-928-6211Quickly: our office is at 8383 Wilshire, a few blocks south of the city line. We answer in under three rings, price most repairs on the call and usually have a technician at the door within days, often with several units on the same visit for a manager.
Text the list and a photo and the price comes on the call, in writing, before anything is booked. A building list comes back priced by unit so the manager can approve all or part of it. No service-call surprise at the door, and the same price whether the owner or the renter is paying.
Yes, with your landlord's or manager's go-ahead, which for a sticking door or a loose strike is usually a text away. We price it for whoever is paying and send the photos when it is done.
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, which is what a manager or a board needs on file before a porch post, a balcony railing or a run of siding is rebuilt.
The city keeps its own exempt-work list and we check it rather than quote it. The state code it builds to asks for no application for an ordinary repair or finish work, which covers a rehung unit door, a patched wall, a rebuilt sill or a run of siding; cutting a structural beam or a load-bearing support is past that line and gets a permit and an engineer.
Yes. A repair that preserves the resource, the original door rehung, the siding rebuilt in kind, the stucco patched to match, is what the city wants to see, and we photograph before and after for the file. A change to the outside goes through a Certificate of Appropriateness first, and we say so before anything is ordered.
Yes. Soft boards, a rotted railing post or damaged walkway trim is handyman carpentry, and we rebuild it and put the scope in writing for the board. A rotted ledger or a structural member goes to the engineer first, and we tell the board that before anything comes apart.
All of West Hollywood from our Beverly Hills office, including West Hollywood West, the Norma Triangle, the Santa Monica Boulevard courts, Harper, Havenhurst, the Sunset Strip hillside and the Eastside, plus Beverly Hills, Beverly Grove, the Fairfax district, Hancock Park and the Hollywood Hills. Call 310-928-6211 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: 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 West Hollywood 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.
