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Kaminskiy Care and Repair is a licensed, insured handyman company whose background checked employees handle the whole home to do list, doors first. Calls are answered in under three rings, and most jobs are priced and scheduled in under 10 minutes. We serve Coral Gables and the surrounding Florida communities.
The office is on Ponce de Leon Boulevard, so the Gables list is the one we clear most often.
The item that opens most Coral Gables lists is a door that no longer closes right: a 1920s arched entry swollen by a wet summer, iron hardware seized with rust, a wood shutter soft along its bottom rail, or an impact slider on the waterfront that drags on flattened rollers. One technician planes and rehangs the door, frees or replaces the hardware, rebuilds a termite-hollowed jamb and fits new rollers, then works down the rest of the list in the same visit.
None of these is a project on its own, which is why they wait. Put them on one list and a Kaminskiy-certified technician from the Ponce de Leon office clears it in a visit, priced in writing first.
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 Coral Gables repair.
A Coral Gables to-do list is six or ten small things that never justify a separate contractor each: the swollen door, the shutter, the caulk, the stair rail, the closet rod, the plaster hairline. We take the whole list on one call, send one Kaminskiy-certified technician with a stocked truck, and finish most of it in one visit. Anything that needs a part we do not carry is scheduled before we leave.
Text the list, or a photo of the worst item, and most Gables repairs are priced on the call, in writing, item by item, before anything is scheduled. A run of rafter tails, a rebuilt frame or a bathroom refresh gets a look first and a written scope. The price you approve is the price at the house; there is no service fee waiting at the door.
An ordinary repair that puts back what is there, a rehung door, a patched wall, a shutter rail, a spliced board, is the minor repair the Florida Building Code lets the city's building official approve without a permit, as long as no wall is cut and no beam comes out. A door replaced with its frame, a window, or a repair that reaches into a rafter is a permit, and in the Gables the Board of Architects looks at anything that changes the street face. We ask the counter before a bigger job and tell you what it said.
Florida keeps plumbing, electrical, air conditioning and roofing for its state-licensed contractors, and a beam that carries the roof is an engineer's call, so those are not our lane and we tell you who to call. The licensed pest company treats drywood termites; we rebuild the wood they hollowed. Everything else on the list, carpentry, doors, trim, plaster, drywall, shutters, caulk, hardware, finish work, is ours.
Masonry houses built to the city plan and reviewed by its architects, where almost every list item is wood: an arched entry door, exposed rafter tails, eave trim, shutters, a balcony rail. The humidity swells the doors, the iron hardware seizes, the end grain of the tails rots and the shutter rails go soft. We repair each piece to the profile that is there, in the same material and color, which is what keeps the job at an in-kind repair.
The wood-frame houses of the 1920s through the 1940s, with clapboard, porches and wood windows, part of them a historic district and the only corner of the city where a wood picket fence is allowed. The to-do list here is bottom courses of siding, porch post bases, a window sash that will not stay up and doors binding in frames that settled long ago. We splice new wood to old, keep the lap and the reveal, and keep the paperwork at the staff level.
Gated estates with associations, salt air and walls of impact sliders and French doors facing the water. The list is heavy doors that have sagged, multipoint locks that stopped catching, rollers worn flat, dock steps and pergola beams rotted at the ends, and the hardware the salt pitted. We rehang on heavy-duty hinges, reset the keepers, fit stainless rollers, and write the finish and the materials down for the association.
Call 786-527-2055 or text photos of each item. Most of the list is priced on that call, in writing, item by item.
You get the written price before anyone drives out. A rebuilt frame or a run of rot gets a look first and a written scope.
A Kaminskiy-certified technician from the Ponce de Leon office works down the list with a stocked truck, usually in one visit.
The dust leaves with us, and the one-year workmanship warranty is on the invoice.
Florida does not license handymen. State law calls anyone paid to repair or improve a structure a contractor, exempts only casual minor work under a set small amount, and reserves plumbing, electrical, air conditioning, roofing and structural work for state-licensed contractors, with Miami-Dade adding its own certificates for the specialty trades. Kaminskiy Care and Repair is bonded and insured, every technician is Kaminskiy-certified and background checked, and the list we take is the carpentry, doors, trim, plaster, drywall, shutters, caulk and finish side; the licensed trades we send to the right license.
Coral Gables has its own building department working under the Florida Building Code. The code's minor-repairs clause lets the building official approve an ordinary repair without a permit when no wall is cut and no beam removed, and painting needs none. A door replaced together with its frame or a window assembly is a permit, and we check with the counter before a job that could go either way. The 2026 state exemption for small residential jobs is a request the city decides case by case, so we never promise it. The zoning code also fixes what a Gables wall is made of, masonry, stuccoed and painted, with wood facings on a house allowed only south of the Deep Waterway and east of Old Cutler Road.
The city has reviewed the look of its buildings since the 1920s. A repair that matches the existing profile, material and color is in kind, and that is how we build every item on the list; a new front door, a changed trim profile or a new color goes to the Board of Architects along with the permit. In the high-velocity hurricane zone a replacement exterior door needs a permit and a product with a Miami-Dade or Florida approval, or a shutter over the opening, so we check the approval and the size before you order. On a house in the Coral Gables Register or in MacFarlane Homestead, a certificate of appropriateness comes before exterior work, with in-kind repairs handled by staff.
Our office is in Coral Gables. The South Florida office on Ponce de Leon Boulevard is where the crew starts the day, which is why a Gables call is usually on the calendar within days. Call 786-527-2055, text a photo, or send the form.
Can't find your answer? Call 786-527-2055 and ask us anything.
Call 786-527-2055That is the point of this page. The swollen door, the shutter, the stair rail, the split caulk and the closet rod go on one list, and one Kaminskiy-certified technician with a stocked truck works through it in a visit. A part that has to be ordered is scheduled before we leave.
Plumbing, electrical, air conditioning and roofing are Florida's state-licensed trades and are not our lane, and a beam that carries the roof is an engineer's call; we tell you who to call. Termite treatment is the licensed pest company's job; the wood they hollowed we rebuild.
The office is on Ponce de Leon Boulevard, so a Gables address is minutes away. We answer in under three rings, price most of the list on the call and usually schedule within days.
It follows the list. Text the items or photos and each one is priced on the call, in writing, before anything is booked, so you see what the door costs and what the caulk costs. A rebuilt frame or a run of rafter tails gets a look first and a written scope.
Yes. Every repair carries our one-year workmanship warranty in writing, done by a Kaminskiy-certified, background checked technician, and Kaminskiy Care and Repair is bonded and insured.
Not a repair in kind. Matching the existing profile, material and color is how we do every item, and the city treats that as repair, not change. A new front door, a changed trim profile or a new color is reviewed, and we say so before we price it.
Usually not. An ordinary repair that puts back what is there, which is most of a to-do list, is the kind the building official can approve without a permit. A door with its frame, a window or a rebuild into a rafter takes one, and the hurricane zone adds a product approval for any exterior door. We check at the counter before a bigger job.
All of Coral Gables from the Ponce de Leon Boulevard office: the North Gables, Granada, the Country Club and Biltmore Sections, Golden Gate, MacFarlane Homestead, Cocoplum, Gables Estates, Snapper Creek Lakes and Kings Bay, plus Coconut Grove, South Miami, Pinecrest and Miami. Call 786-527-2055 to confirm your address.
Tell us what is on the list. We'll call you back with a price and a time. Calling is still the fastest way: 786-527-2055.
Priced on the call, one crew for the whole list, 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.
