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Miami renovations start with what the humidity and the termites have already done. Kaminskiy Care and Repair rebuilds that first and then runs the project as one job from our office on Ponce de Leon Boulevard in Coral Gables: a kitchen or bathroom refresh with new cabinets, counters and fixtures in a Coconut Grove cottage, plaster and paint through a Morningside house, terrazzo uncovered in a Flagami block home, a Brickell condo turned over between tenants, a Little Havana duplex readied for the next lease. One written scope and one crew per project. Moving walls, plumbing or wiring is a remodel, and we say so on the first call. Call 786-527-2055.
Refreshes and multi-day projects, priced in writing from Coral Gables.
A 1940s Shenandoah house with its original floor plan does not need a new one. It needs cabinets, counters, a backsplash and lights, with the plaster kept, and that is a refresh. Several rooms on one calendar make a project: the Brickell condo turned over between tenants, the Little Havana duplex refloored and repainted before the next lease, the Grove cottage renewed room by room while the family stays in it. Move a wall, a drain or the panel and it is a remodel for a licensed general contractor, which we tell you on the first call.
AFTERBEFOREEach of those is one written scope from Coral Gables. Call 786-527-2055. A room takes days; a condo or a whole house comes with a schedule, the building's work hours included, that you approve before anyone starts.
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 written scope first, and a workmanship warranty, in writing, on every Miami project.
Same layout, new cabinets, surfaces, fixtures and finishes: a refresh. Several rooms on one schedule, a condo turned over, a duplex done between tenants, a house replastered and repainted: a project. Walls, plumbing or wiring moving: a remodel, which Florida hands to a licensed general contractor. We do the first two and name the contractor for the third.
Finishes and labor set the price, not square feet, and near the bay the finishes include stainless and sealed parts that survive the air. A Kendall kitchen that keeps its sink and range where they are needs no permit and no licensed trade work, so its refresh costs a fraction of a remodel. Every line is on paper before a date is set.
In a Grove cottage the order is fixed: the licensed pest company treats, we rebuild the frames and sills they hollowed out, and only then do plaster and paint, floors, cabinets, fixtures and trim follow, in that sequence. The wall is opened before the flooring is ordered, never after.
In a house it is one room at a time, floors protected, dust walled off, the air conditioning running and the afternoon rain in the plan. In a condo tower the unit is empty, the elevator is booked, the building's hours are kept and the trades follow each other day after day.
Mediterranean and MiMo houses from the 1920s to the 1950s near the bay, several in historic districts. Projects are kitchens and baths brought up to date behind the original walls, plaster skimmed instead of torn out, wood floors refinished, hardware chosen for the salt. Inside the house is yours; in Morningside and Buena Vista East the street face stays as the historic board expects.
The oldest wood in the city: frame cottages with clapboard and porches, and 1920s masonry homes with wood eaves. A project here starts with what the termites left and ends with a kitchen and bath that fit the house, floors refinished, the porch rebuilt in kind. We keep the original where it can be saved.
Concrete-block homes from the 1940s to the 1960s with terrazzo under the carpet and jalousie windows, and the duplexes and rentals that turn over tenant by tenant. Projects are the kitchen and baths refreshed in the footprint, terrazzo uncovered or covered, popcorn ceilings taken down, and the turnovers priced as one list and run back to back.
A wall opened, a kitchen moved, a room added, a second story: that is design-and-build work for a licensed general contractor, with an engineer, a full permit set and the hurricane-zone product approvals. Say what you want on the first call and you will know which kind of company you need before the call ends.
A Brickell, Edgewater or beach unit comes back between tenants needing floors, paint, a kitchen and bath refresh and new doors. We write the list up with a price on every line, book the building's elevator and work hours, and run it back to back. On a tower of three stories or more the state's milestone inspection belongs to the engineer; the unit, the trim, the railings and the common-area list are ours, scoped for the board.
Miami-Dade is the one county where the Formosan and the Asian subterranean termite both live, and the West Indian drywood termite needs no soil at all to work an old door frame. The licensed pest company identifies and treats. We rebuild the frames, sills, siding and trim they ate, and the kitchen, the plaster and the paint come after, so the finish work is done once.
A 1920s house asks for the same plaster, the same trim profile and the same hardware when a piece comes out, and in the historic districts the city asks for it on the street face. We skim instead of demolishing, copy the milled trim, plane and rehang the original doors, and refinish Dade County pine that has been under carpet for decades.
Tell us what you want to change. Small refreshes are priced on the call. A multi-room project gets a walk-through from our Coral Gables office within days.
Every room, every item, every finish on paper. You pick the fixtures, tile and colors, or we bring options. Nothing is ordered until you sign off.
Repairs first, then paint, floors, fixtures, trim. The same technicians through the whole Miami job, and a licensed trade brought in for the wiring or plumbing when the scope needs one.
We walk every room with you, leave the house clean, and every item carries our one-year workmanship warranty, on paper.
Florida has no handyman license. The state defines a contractor as anyone paid to repair, alter or improve a structure, exempts only casual, minor work under a set small amount, and reserves structural work, roofing, air conditioning, plumbing and electrical for state-licensed contractors; Miami-Dade adds its own certificates for the specialty trades. Kaminskiy Care and Repair is bonded and insured, every technician is Kaminskiy-certified and background checked, we run the carpentry, cabinets, counters, floors, paint, plaster, trim, doors and finish side of a project, and the licensed plumber and electrician are brought in for the fixtures and the wiring and named on the scope.
The City of Miami lists what needs no permit, and painting is on it as long as the stucco is left alone; cabinets, counters, flooring and a fixture replaced in the same place by the licensed trade are the same kind of finish work under the Florida Building Code, and the county puts non-structural repair work under a set cost in that bucket. The permit question for a project starts when plumbing or wiring moves, a wall comes out, or a door or window is replaced with its frame, and the 2026 state exemption must be approved and posted before work starts, never in a flood zone, so we do not promise it. We tell you which on the walk-through.
In the high-velocity hurricane zone a replacement exterior door or window needs a permit and a product with a Miami-Dade or Florida approval that passed the impact tests for this zone, so an opening in a project is specified and ordered that way. In Morningside, Buena Vista East and the designated parts of the Grove, a change to the outside needs historic review and the inside does not. Along the bay the condo towers of three stories or more carry the state milestone inspection: unit doors, trim and railings are ours, the structural report is the engineer's.
Our South Florida office is in Coral Gables. The Miami crews work out of the office on Ponce de Leon Boulevard, a short drive from the Grove, the Roads, Little Havana and the Upper Eastside, and cover the county from Miami Beach to Kendall. Call 786-527-2055 with the rooms or the photos. The whole county is on our Miami handyman page.
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Call 786-527-2055If the rooms stay where they are and get new cabinets, counters, a vanity, floors, paint and plaster, it is a renovation. If walls, pipes or wiring move, it is a remodel. A Miami kitchen that works but looks forty years old is a renovation at a fraction of the cost; a kitchen you want somewhere else is a remodel, and we name a licensed general contractor on the call.
From the finishes you choose and the labor the room needs, never from square footage. One room is usually priced from photos and a short call. Several rooms, or a condo, get a walk-through from Coral Gables and a written scope with a price on every line, approved by you before anything is ordered. Call 786-527-2055 to start.
The licensed plumber, and the licensed electrician wires the new light and fan; Florida reserves that work for them, so we book them into the scope and coordinate the days. The vanity, the mirror, the shower door, the tile, the paint, the trim and the door are ours. One call, one schedule.
Yes. Most Miami buildings want a certificate of insurance, a work-hours window and an elevator booking before anything comes through the lobby, and we arrange that with the manager as part of the scope. The unit refresh, the doors, the trim and the common-area list are ours; the structural milestone inspection on a tower of three stories or more belongs to the engineer.
Not the finish work: painting that leaves the stucco alone, flooring, cabinets, counters, and a fixture replaced in the same spot by the licensed trade. A permit comes in when plumbing or wiring moves, a wall comes out or a door or window is replaced with its frame, which in this zone also means a product approval. We settle it on the walk-through.
One or the other, almost always. The Grove, the Roads and the Upper Eastside have Dade County pine that sands and finishes beautifully; the block houses west of the river have terrazzo, which the terrazzo specialist restores or we cover with plank or tile. Once the carpet is up we tell you which you have, and the scope follows from that.
The City of Miami from our Coral Gables office, including Morningside, Belle Meade, Shorecrest, Buena Vista, Coconut Grove, The Roads, Silver Bluff, Shenandoah, Flagami and Little Havana, plus Coral Gables, Miami Beach, Key Biscayne, Miami Shores, Doral, Kendall and Pinecrest. Call 786-527-2055 to confirm your address.
Tell us the room and what bothers you about it, and we call back with a time for a look and a written scope. Calling is still faster: 786-527-2055.
A written scope before a date, 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.
