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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 West Hollywood and the surrounding California communities.
A few blocks from our office. The unit upstairs and the courtyard stack lead the West Hollywood water list.
In West Hollywood the water usually comes from someone else's bathroom. Eight in ten homes are rented, most of them in buildings, so a ceiling stain is the unit upstairs, a shared stack in a 1920s courtyard building, a parapet scupper on a flat roof, or a balcony door on a condo corridor. We trace it, put the source in writing for the manager or the board, schedule the licensed plumber or roofer who closes it, cut out the wet plaster and trim, dry the cavity, and rebuild the unit.
AFTERBEFOREEach of these is a short drive for a Kaminskiy-certified technician who starts the day a few blocks south on Wilshire. One look, the source named, one written scope for the unit or the building.
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 West Hollywood water damage repair.
Paint is a cover, not a cure. The tannin and the minerals in the water ride it to the surface, and they keep coming as long as the water does. In a building the water keeps coming because nobody has found which unit it is from: the ring on your ceiling is fed by a tub drain two floors up, or a stack that leaks only when the whole riser is in use at seven in the morning. We find the route first, in writing, meter the cavity dry, and only then seal, texture and paint.
Plaster or drywall that is stained but firm, with nothing growing behind it, can be dried, sealed with a stain-blocking primer and refinished. Material that is soft, sagging, crumbling or has been wet for more than a couple of days comes out to sound edges, with the insulation behind it and the baseboard or casing that swelled. Old plaster with the keys broken off the lath comes out; plaster with a firm stain stays. A cabinet floor comes out and goes back in new. The written scope says which, so the manager approves a list, not a guess.
California licenses no mold trade, so we hold to the EPA's line: surface growth of about ten square feet or less is removed, treated and rebuilt over by the technician; more than that, growth inside the walls of more than one unit, a sewage backup, or a tenant with breathing trouble means a remediation company with containment and a written protocol, and that is not our lane. Air and surface sampling is a testing specialist's. They clear it, then we rebuild.
In a building the habit is a walk-through: once a season look at the ceiling under every bathroom, open every sink cabinet, and check the floor at every balcony door. Recaulk the tub walls before the bead goes black, replace the supply lines and the washer hoses when they stiffen, keep the parapet scuppers clear before the first rain, and tell tenants to report a ring the week it appears, not the month. Most of the water damage we rebuild in West Hollywood came through two ceilings before anyone called.
Single-family 1920s and 1930s houses with lath and plaster, wood-sash windows, raised floors and roofs patched more than once, and hillside houses above the Strip with decks on ledgers and a bath over the room below. The rain comes in at a wood sill or a roof valley into plaster; the upstairs tub and the deck ledger show as a ring on the ceiling. We cut plaster back to sound lath or set a patch finished to the same plane, rebuild the floor over the joists, and keep the street face as it was under the neighborhood overlay.
Bungalow courts and 1920s Spanish Revival and Art Deco courtyard buildings, many designated cultural resources, with plaster walls, cast iron stacks and galvanized supply lines a century old, and bathrooms stacked one over the next. A pinhole in a supply line or a cracked stack soaks the plaster of the unit below and the one below that. We dry and rebuild each unit's plaster and trim in kind, the licensed plumber the owner books replaces the line, and the scope goes to the manager unit by unit.
Apartments and duplexes from the 1950s to the 1970s with flat roofs that drain to parapet scuppers, tub walls on their third regrout and a water heater in a closet, and the condo buildings on Doheny and the Sunset side where the leak is a neighbor's tub, a shared stack or a balcony door. We dry and rebuild your side of the ceiling or the wall, name the source in writing for the board, and the licensed trade the association books closes the roof or the stack.
Call 310-928-6211 or text a photo of the stain and the bathroom, roof or balcony nearest it, with the unit number. Small repairs get a range on the call and a date for the look.
A technician meters the ceiling, the wall and the floor, follows the wet path to the unit above, a stack, a supply line, a scupper or a balcony door, and writes the scope: what comes out, which licensed trade closes the source, what we rebuild, the price, per unit.
The licensed plumber or roofer the owner or the board schedules stops the water; we cut out the wet plaster, drywall, insulation, baseboard and cabinet floor, set fans and a dehumidifier, treat the framing and meter it until it reads dry.
Plaster patch or drywall, texture, trim and paint matched to the unit, the dust gone with us, photos to the manager, and the one-year workmanship warranty on the invoice.
California lets a repair under a set small amount be done without a license when it needs no permit and nobody is employed on it; a water damage rebuild in a unit, plaster, drywall, insulation, trim and paint, is above that line, and a manager needs the license on file anyway. Kaminskiy Care and Repair is a licensed California contractor (License #1106209), bonded and insured, with Kaminskiy-certified, background-checked technicians. The stack or the line is the licensed plumber's and the roof the licensed roofer's; we do the tear-out, the drying and the rebuild around them.
West Hollywood keeps its own list of work exempt from a building permit and builds to the California codes with the county's amendments. Under the state residential code, replacing wet drywall or plaster in the same place, baseboard, casing and a patch of subfloor between joists is an ordinary repair with no application, as long as no wall, beam or bearing support is cut and no supply, drain or waste pipe is replaced or moved; the city's own counter says repairing a leak in a pipe or a fixture needs no plumbing permit, and replacing drain or waste piping does. So our rebuild needs no permit, the licensed plumber pulls one for a replaced line, the licensed roofer for the roof, and a rotted joist is a permit and an engineer. On a designated cultural resource the inside is not the review's concern; the outside is.
In a condo the walls in and the finishes are usually the owner's and the stack, the roof and the balcony structure the association's under the governing documents, and the association's policy and the owner's meet at that line; in an apartment the owner's policy carries the building and a renter's policy the contents. Sudden water, a burst line or an overflow, is usually covered; slow seepage and a neighbor's long-ignored drip often are not, and the policies and the adjusters decide, not us. We photograph before and after, log the meter readings, keep the cut-out material until the adjuster has seen it, and write the scope per unit so it reads as a claim. We do not adjust claims, and a public adjuster is a licensed trade of its own.
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.
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Call 310-928-6211Not ours; that is a remediation company's work, whatever this page's address says. We remove and treat small surface growth on plaster, drywall, trim and framing as part of the rebuild, about the EPA's ten square feet or less. Larger growth, growth through the walls of more than one unit, a sewage source or a tenant with breathing trouble goes to a remediation company with containment and a written protocol, and sampling to a testing specialist. California licenses neither, so we name companies we have rebuilt behind and come back when they clear it.
Nearly always, and in a building that is most of the job. A technician meters the ceiling and the wall, follows the wet path to its high point and matches it to the bathroom above, a stack, a supply line, a parapet scupper or a balcony door; a stain that grows when the neighbor showers is the unit, one that grows when it rains is the roof or the door. The scope names the source and the unit, in writing, so the manager or the board knows whose licensed plumber or roofer to send.
Yes. A hand-troweled plaster patch in a 1920s court, orange peel or a smooth finish in a 1960s building, feathered past the cut, primed with a stain blocker and painted corner to corner so there is no edge to find, with the crown and the base matched to the profile. Inside a designated cultural resource the rebuild is in kind, which is how we do it anyway.
It depends on how much got wet, for how long, and how many units. A firm stain that needs drying, sealing and paint is a short visit; a plaster ceiling that comes down with its lath, or three units under one stack, is a few days with fans in between. Text a photo and the unit number and you get a range on the call; after the look, a written scope per unit with the tear-out, the drying, the licensed trade and the rebuild priced before anything starts, so a manager can approve all of it or part.
Often, when the water was sudden: a burst supply line, a failed water heater, an overflowed tub upstairs. A drip the neighbor ignored for months, a roof that has leaked for three winters, and flood usually are not, and in a condo the association's policy and the owner's meet at the line the governing documents draw. The policies and the adjusters decide, not us. We give you what the claim needs, dated photos, meter readings, the cut-out material kept until the adjuster has seen it, and a scope written per unit. We do not adjust claims.
Your landlord or manager, usually a text away from a yes once they see the photo, and we can look with their go-ahead. We trace the stain to the unit or the stack it came from and put that in writing, the owner's licensed plumber closes the source, and we dry and rebuild your ceiling and walls so you are not living under it. California housing law treats dampness and visible growth as a condition the owner has to fix, which is why managers move on it.
Not for drywall, plaster, trim or a subfloor patch in the same place; the state code the city builds to calls that an ordinary repair, and the city's counter needs no plumbing permit to repair a leak. A replaced supply, drain or waste line is the licensed plumber's permit, the roof is the licensed roofer's, and a rotted joist or ledger is a permit and an engineer. We tell you which at the look, before anything is cut.
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 where the stain or soft spot is. We'll call you back with a price and a time. Calling is still the fastest way: 310-928-6211.
Dried out, rebuilt and painted to match, 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.
