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The 1920s core of Coral Gables has original arched wood doors, iron hardware and frames that have stood in Miami humidity for a century; the waterfront south has walls of heavy impact sliders and French doors. Doors swell, iron rusts stiff, drywood termites take the frames, heavy doors drag on their hinges. We plane and rehang the original, free the hardware, rebuild the frame and realign the heavy doors, and saving the original skips the Board of Architects.
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THE LISTALL DONEAll of it is routine for a Kaminskiy-certified technician who starts the day here on Ponce de Leon Boulevard. One list, one call.
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 job.
Mediterranean masonry houses under architectural review, where the wood is the arched entry door, the exposed rafter tails, the eave trim, the shutters and the balcony rails. Doors swell, iron hardware seizes, tails rot at the end grain, shutters along the bottom rail. We rebuild each to the drawn profile, free and restore the hardware 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, wood windows and the one place in the city where a wood picket fence is allowed. Siding rots along the bottom courses, porch posts at the base, doors bind in settled frames. We splice new wood into old, match the lap and the reveal and keep the paperwork at staff level.
Gated estates with associations, salt air, docks and walls of impact sliders and French doors to the water. Heavy doors sag, multipoint locks stop catching, rollers flatten, dock steps and pergola beams rot at the ends. We rehang on heavy-duty hinges, reset the keepers, fit stainless rollers and put the finish in writing for the association.
Age, shade and sprinklers. The Gables is irrigated year round and shaded by old trees, so door frames, rafter tails, shutters and pergola beams stay damp long after the rain stops, and a century-old door has swelled and shrunk through a hundred summers. The repairs are small and exact: the city built to a plan, and the repair has to match it.
Doors, hardware, trim, shutters, plaster, drywall, siding, fences, decks, rot, caulk and the estate list are handyman work. Electrical, plumbing, air conditioning and roofing are Florida's state-licensed trades and a rafter that carries the roof is an engineer's call, so we name them on the call and tell you who to call. The licensed pest company treats the termites; we rebuild afterward.
Most Coral Gables jobs are priced on the call, in writing, from a description or photos, before anything is scheduled. A run of rafter tails, a rebuilt frame or a bathroom refresh gets a look first and a written scope. What you approve is what you pay.
Coral Gables has reviewed the look of its buildings since the 1920s, and a new front door, a changed trim profile or a new color goes through that review along with the permit. 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, which is most of why saving the original door is usually the better buy here.
Tell us the list, or text a photo of the worst item. Most small repairs are priced on the call, in writing, in under ten minutes.
A Kaminskiy-certified technician comes with a stocked truck and works through the list in one visit wherever the parts allow.
A door swap, a rotted frame or a bathroom refresh gets a visit and a written scope before anything starts. No surprises at the house.
The work area is left clean and every repair carries our one-year workmanship warranty, on paper.
There is no handyman license in Florida. The state calls anyone paid to repair or improve a structure a contractor, exempts only casual, minor work under a set small amount, and keeps structural work, roofing, air conditioning, plumbing and electrical for state-licensed contractors, with Miami-Dade issuing its own certificates for the specialty trades. Kaminskiy Care and Repair is bonded and insured, its technicians Kaminskiy-certified and background checked; we do the carpentry, doors, trim, plaster, fences, rot and finish work and send the licensed trades to the right license.
Coral Gables runs its own building department under 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 is removed; the permit counter decides where a rebuilt rafter tail or a new door with its frame falls, and 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 on a single-family house allowed only south of the Deep Waterway and east of Old Cutler Road. The 2026 state exemption is a request the city decides, and we do not promise it.
In the high-velocity hurricane zone a replacement exterior door needs a permit and a product with a Miami-Dade or Florida approval that passed the impact tests for this zone, or a shutter over the opening; a big-box door without that approval will not pass, and here the Board of Architects reviews it too, so we check the approval, the size and the style before you order. On a house in the Coral Gables Register or in MacFarlane Homestead, a certificate of appropriateness comes before exterior work, with repairs in kind handled by staff, which is how we build them.
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. The whole county is on our Miami handyman page.
Can't find your answer? Call 786-527-2055 and ask us anything.
Call 786-527-2055Faster than anywhere else we serve in South Florida: the office is on Ponce de Leon Boulevard. We answer in under three rings, price most repairs on the call and usually schedule within days.
Describe the job or send photos and the price comes on the call, in writing, before anything is booked. A run of rafter tails, a rebuilt frame or a bath refresh gets a look first and a written scope. No surprises at the house.
Usually, yes. Original wood doors can be planed, rehung and sealed, their frames rebuilt where termites or rot got in and their iron hardware freed or restored. Saving the original also avoids the review a new front door needs here.
Florida has no handyman license and reserves electrical, plumbing, air conditioning, roofing and structural work for state-licensed contractors, which we send to the right license. Carpentry, doors, trim, plaster, drywall, fences, rot and finish work are ours: Kaminskiy Care and Repair is bonded and insured and every technician is Kaminskiy-certified and background checked.
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. A new front door, a changed trim profile or a new color is a different review, and we tell you so on the call and help you choose a door that fits the house and carries a hurricane approval.
Not usually for an ordinary minor repair that matches what is there, which covers most door, trim, shutter, plaster and drywall work; the city's permit counter decides, and we check before a bigger job. A door replaced with its frame, a window or a rebuild into a rafter takes a permit, and we tell you on the call.
All of Coral Gables from our Ponce de Leon Boulevard office, including 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 the list, or text a photo, and we call back with a written price and a time. Calling is still faster: 786-527-2055.
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 Coral Gables 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.
