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Kaminskiy Care and Repair handles apartment door replacement for the people who manage rental property: unit entry doors and bedroom, bath and closet doors replaced or re-hung at turnover, with their hinges, latches, stops and viewers. Property managers send a list by unit, and we schedule the work between move-out and the next lease start, alongside paint and cleaning. Entry doors that carry a fire label are replaced with a door of the same rating, as our fire-rated door installation page explains. Unit doors belong to the wider set of door and hardware services we run for property managers.
Unit doors on an interior corridor are frequently labeled fire doors with closers or spring hinges. We check the hinge edge for the label before quoting. A labeled door is replaced in kind; an unlabeled one is replaced to match the building standard, so the hallway keeps one look from end to end.
Entry doors that open to weather take kicks, sun and lockouts. The lock edge splits, the bottom swells and the frame cracks at the strike. We replace the slab or the whole prehung unit, reinforce the strike side with long screws into the framing, and fit the viewer and stop. The new locks themselves are covered under turnover lock replacement.
Hollow-core doors get punched, pets chew the bottoms, bifolds leave their track and sliders lose their guides. We swap damaged slabs for matching ones, mortise the hinges, bore for the latch, re-hang bifold and bypass doors with new hardware and fit new stops. Split casing beside the frame is handled as door casing repair.
Give us the unit number, the door count and photos, or have us walk the vacant unit. We note size, swing, panel style and hardware finish for each door.
You get a written scope listing every door by room, slab or prehung, and the hardware being reused or replaced. It can be approved by unit or as a batch.
Doors go in after wall repair and before final paint where possible, so hinges are not painted over and fresh walls are not scuffed. We coordinate with your painter or ours.
Each door is hung, planed if needed, latched and checked against its stop. The unit is left swept, and photos by room go to the manager for the turnover file.
The International Building Code (2021, section 1010.2.4, item 5) lets doors from individual dwelling units carry a night latch, dead bolt or security chain, provided those devices open from the inside without a key or tool. That rules out a deadbolt keyed on both sides. Local adoption varies, and the official decides what applies to an existing building.
Where a unit opens to a rated corridor, the IBC's Table 716.1(2) pairs a 1-hour corridor wall with a 20-minute door assembly, and section 716.2.6.1 has that door self-closing and latching. A stock slab is not a substitute. Your jurisdiction's adopted code and the door's own label settle it, and we read the label before ordering.
The EPA's Renovation, Repair and Painting rule covers paid work that disturbs paint in housing built before 1978. EPA describes minor repair and maintenance as six square feet or less per room inside. Cutting out a painted jamb can pass that mark. We follow lead-safe practices where paint is disturbed in pre-1978 units, and testing can show whether lead is present at all.
Sources for the rules on this page: International Building Code (2021), Section 1010.2.4, Item 5; International Building Code (2021), Table 716.1(2) and Section 716.2.6.1; U.S. EPA, Renovation, Repair and Painting Program: Contractors.
We keep a door standard for each property, so a replacement in unit 12 looks like the original in unit 14.
For each vacant unit we work one list: entry door and frame, every interior door, closet doors, stops and the viewer. Slabs are matched to the property's panel style, hinges are mortised to the old locations, and latches are set so each door clicks shut without a shove. Wall damage behind a missing stop is passed to turnover drywall repair.
Patching a punched hollow-core door costs more labor than a new slab and still shows. We replace it, match the style and leave the opening ready for the turnover painting crew.
Send the unit numbers with a door list or photos, and the date each unit must be ready.
We return a written scope and price per unit, listing each door and its hardware.
Doors are replaced in sequence with your other trades and photographed room by room when finished.
The work is backed in writing by our workmanship warranty and done by a Kaminskiy-certified, background checked technician.
A slab is the door alone, hung on the existing frame and hinges. A prehung unit is a door already mounted in a new frame. Choose a slab when the frame is square and undamaged; it is quicker and leaves the casing alone. Choose prehung when the jamb is split, chewed or out of square, because a new door on a bad frame never latches right.
Interior hollow-core doors are light and inexpensive to replace, which suits bedrooms and closets. Solid-core doors resist damage and cut sound, and some owners standardize on them for bathrooms and for bedrooms that share a wall with the living room. Exterior entries need an exterior-grade door. We follow the property's standard, and we will tell you when a door type keeps failing in one spot.
A replacement slab must be mortised for hinges at the old frame locations and bored for the latch at the old strike height. An eighth of an inch off and the door binds or rattles. Buildings settle too, so a slab cut to factory square may need its edge planed to the opening. That fitting is most of the labor in a door swap, and skipping it is why quick replacements pop open.
A door stop costs almost nothing and saves a wall repair at every turnover. We fit hinge-pin, baseboard or wall stops to suit the swing. A viewer lets a resident see who is at the entry before opening it; cracked or painted-over ones are replaced as a matter of course. On a labeled entry door, any new hole has to be one the label allows.
Can't find your answer? Call 855-695-1195 and ask us anything.
Call 855-695-1195Yes. Send the list by unit with the ready dates. We group units by building, order slabs and hardware together and sequence the visits with wall repair and paint. Each unit still gets its own line on the scope so costs can be tracked to the right turnover.
Yes. We record the panel pattern, thickness, hinge size and hardware finish in use at the property and order to that. If the original style is discontinued, we show you the closest current match and suggest where to use it so differences are not side by side.
A hole through a hollow-core skin is rarely worth patching; the repair shows and the labor exceeds the price of a slab. A loose hinge, a sticking edge or a worn latch is a repair. We tell you which on the walk, and we do not replace doors that only need adjusting.
Yes, with notice arranged through the manager. Interior doors are swapped room by room, and an entry door is removed and replaced in a single working block so the unit is never left without a lockable door. Most of this work is still done vacant, at turnover.
We fit the locksets and deadbolts the property specifies, as part of the door work. Rekeying and key cutting belong to a locksmith or to the manager's own rekey system, and states differ on what a locksmith license covers. We leave each door latching correctly and ready for that step.
Yes. Bifold and bypass closet doors are re-hung on new track hardware, pivots and guides, or replaced when the panels themselves are broken. Sliding glass patio doors are a different job: they belong to a glazier, and we say so on the walk.
The number of doors, slab versus prehung, hollow-core versus solid-core, whether entry doors are rated, and how much hardware is reused. Matching an unusual panel style can add lead time. You see a written price for each unit before any door is ordered.
Some do. It depends on how the building was designed and what it opens onto, and the building or fire official decides. The practical test is the label on the door's hinge edge and on the frame. If the old door was labeled, the new one must carry the same rating.
List the unit numbers, the doors in each and the ready dates, with photos if you have them. A written price per unit comes back. To go over a door list by phone, dial 855-695-1195.
One list per unit, matched to the property standard and finished before move-in.
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.
