Eave trim, soffits, pergola beams, shutters, door frames and the frame cottages rebuilt with sound wood, matched to the house. Priced in writing before we start.
BBBAccredited BusinessCoral Gables is a masonry city by law, so the wood that rots is the wood the architects allowed: the exposed rafter tails and eave trim on the 1920s Mediterranean houses, the soffits and pergola beams, the wood shutters, balcony rails and entry doors, and in Golden Gate and MacFarlane Homestead the frame cottages with their clapboard and porches. Kaminskiy Care and Repair rebuilds all of it from an office on Ponce de Leon Boulevard, in kind: cut to sound wood, spliced or replaced to the same profile, primed on every face, painted to the house color, with the water path closed. A licensed pest company treats the termites; the carpentry after is ours, priced in writing before anything starts.
Eight repairs, one crew, priced in writing before we start.
Year-round irrigation, deep shade from the oaks and ficus, a wet season that runs half the year and a city that reviews what the street sees: Coral Gables rot is a careful repair. We rebuild the rafter tails, the pergola beams and the shutters to match, and we keep the paperwork at staff level where we can.
AFTERBEFORE
Fascia & Eaves
Window Sills
Door Jambs & Casings
Trim & Siding
Termite Damage Rebuilds
Deck Boards & Railings
Stairs & Posts
Primed, Painted & SealedOn a Gables house the repair has to match what the architect drew, and that is the work our technicians do. Most eave trim, shutter and door frame repairs are priced on the first call, in writing; a pergola, a porch or a historic elevation gets a look and a written scope first.
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 Coral Gables rot and termite damage repair.
Shade and sprinklers. The Gables is irrigated year round and shaded by old trees, so the rafter tails, the pergola beams and the shutters stay damp long after the rain stops, and the fungus in wet wood gets eight or nine months a year to work. Exposed rafter tails rot at the end grain, pergola beams at the ends, shutters along the bottom rail, door frames at the threshold where the walkway splashes. The frame cottages in Golden Gate and MacFarlane Homestead rot along the bottom courses like any wood house.
Miami-Dade is one of only two counties in the country where the Formosan and the Asian subterranean termite are both established; they come up from the soil in mud tubes, into a pergola post, a door frame or a cottage sill plate, and pack the hollowed wood with carton. The West Indian drywood termite lives inside dry trim and shutters with no soil contact and shows only a pinhole and a pile of six-sided pellets. A licensed pest company identifies and treats; we rebuild what they ate, after.
A rafter tail gets its end cut back to sound wood and a new section spliced in with the same taper and the same cut; a shutter gets a new bottom rail let in and the louvers kept; a beam end is spliced with the same profile and capped. Then every face is primed and the piece is painted to the house color. Filler is for nail holes, not for a rotted tail the street can see.
Move the sprinkler heads off the trim and the shutters. Trim the canopy back so the eaves see some sun. Keep the mulch below the stucco line and off the cottage siding. Repaint the exposed rafter tails before the paint fails, not after. And press the beam ends and the shutter rails with a screwdriver each spring.
Mediterranean masonry houses under architectural review, where the wood is the exposed rafter tails, the eave trim, the soffits, the shutters, the balcony rails and the entry doors. Tails rot at the end grain, shutters along the bottom rail, door frames at the threshold. We rebuild each to the drawn profile and keep the repair in kind.
The wood-frame vernacular houses of the 1920s to the 1940s, part of it a historic district, with clapboard, porches and wood windows. Rot runs along the bottom courses, the porch post bases and the sills; drywood termites take the frames. We splice new wood into old and match the lap and the reveal.
Gated estates with associations, salt air, docks and the one part of the city where wood facings are allowed on a house. Dock steps and deck boards go at the ends, pergola beams at the ends, and the water-side trim first. We rebuild, seal every joint and put the finish in writing for the association.
Our South Florida office is here on Ponce de Leon Boulevard, and the Miami dry rot and wood rot repair page has the county-wide picture: the Miami-Dade permit rule, the termite report and the condo inspections in plain words.
A fascia board, a sill or a trim piece is priced on the call, in writing. A bigger rebuild gets a look first and a written price before anything starts.
We cut back to sound wood and probe how far the rot really goes. If it runs further than the photo showed, you hear it before we go further, with the price.
New wood primed on all sides, caulked, painted to match, and the water path that caused it fixed: the drip edge, the flashing, the gutter end, the sprinkler.
The work area is cleaned before we leave, and every rot repair carries our one-year workmanship warranty.
Coral Gables builds to the Florida Building Code, whose minor-repairs clause lets a building official approve an ordinary minor repair without a permit as long as no wall is cut and no beam or load-bearing support is removed, and the city's permit counter decides where a rebuilt rafter tail or shutter falls; we check before a bigger job rather than guess. The zoning code also says what a Gables wall may be made of: masonry, stuccoed and painted, with wood facings allowed on a single-family house only south of the Deep Waterway and east of Old Cutler Road. A repair that matches what is there is the simplest path past the Board of Architects, which reviews anything that changes the look.
A Coral Gables sale comes with the state wood-destroying organism inspection report from a licensed pest control company: live organisms, the evidence of them, the visible damage, and a line saying it is not a structural report. They treat and tent. We rebuild the rafter tails, trim, shutters, door frames and cottage siding on the damage list, and the inspector comes back when the buyer or the lender asks. Send the report with the address and we price from it.
On a house in the Coral Gables Register, or in MacFarlane Homestead and the other designated districts, a certificate of appropriateness comes before exterior work; the city says work that is minor in character, such as painting and repairs in kind, may be handled by staff, while substantial changes go to the Historic Preservation Board, and some maintenance needs no review at all. A rot repair that matches the original is the staff-level kind, and we photograph the profile so it is.
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Call 786-527-2055Our office is on Ponce de Leon Boulevard, so a technician is close. Eave trim, shutter, door frame and soffit repairs are priced on the first call and usually scheduled within days; a pergola, a porch or a historic elevation is looked at first, with the scope in writing before anything starts.
Yes, after a licensed pest company has treated. We cut out the eaten rafter tails, trim, door frames, shutters and the framing we can reach and rebuild it with new wood, primed and painted to the house. The treatment and the report are the pest company; the carpentry is ours.
Yes. Rafter tails, eave trim, shutters, door frames, pergola beams and cottage siding are carpentry, and Kaminskiy is licensed, bonded and insured, so a splice into the tail is fine. If the rot has run past the tail into the rafter that carries the roof, we say so first and tell you who needs to look at it.
How many pieces, how deep the rot runs once they are opened, and how exact the match has to be. A shutter rail is priced on the call; a run of rafter tails on a two-story elevation gets a look. The number is in writing before anything is scheduled.
A repair that matches the existing profile, material and color is the kind the city treats as in kind, and that is how we build it. If you want the trim changed rather than repaired, that is a different review, and we tell you so on the call.
Not usually for an ordinary minor repair that matches what is there, which covers most trim, shutter, soffit and door frame work; the city's permit counter decides, and we check before a bigger job. A rebuild into a rafter, a header or a beam takes a permit and an engineer. The 2026 state exemption is a request the city decides, never in a flood zone, so we do not count on it.
All of Coral Gables from our office on Ponce de Leon Boulevard, including the North Gables, Granada, the Biltmore Section, Golden Gate, MacFarlane Homestead, Cocoplum and Gables Estates, plus Coconut Grove, South Miami, Pinecrest and Miami. Call 786-527-2055 to confirm your address.
Tell us where the wood has gone soft, or text a photo, and we call back with a written price and a time. Calling is still faster: 786-527-2055.
Priced in writing before we start, rebuilt to last, 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.
