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After Hurricane Andrew many Pinecrest homes were rebuilt or refitted with heavy impact entry doors, French doors and sliders, and the weight is now the problem: doors sag and scrape the threshold, multipoint locks stop catching, sliders are too heavy to roll, and shade and sprinklers keep the frames damp at the threshold. We rehang on hinges sized for the door, reset the keepers, replace the rollers and rebuild the frame, keeping the storm rating intact.
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THE LISTALL DONEAll of it is routine for a Kaminskiy-certified technician who treats an estate like one long, well-organized 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 Pinecrest job.
Smaller lots from the 1950s and 1960s near the shops, some on canal and creek lots, with original doors, fascia, carports and sliders to the water. Doors bind in settled frames, sills rot, soffits sag under the trees. We rebuild to the original profile, reseal the sliders and get the branches off the roof edge.
Acre-plus estates under the oaks, many rebuilt in the last twenty years, with heavy impact entry doors, French doors, pergolas, cabanas, wood shutters and long runs of trim. Heavy doors sag, locks stop catching, beam ends and shutter rails go first in the shade. We rehang, reset, rebuild each piece to the architect's profile and keep one running list.
Larger homes near the bay with walls of impact doors, wetter ground, docks and more flood-zone lots. French doors go out of line, heavy sliders drag, deck boards and post bases rot from below. We realign, service the sliders, rebuild on standoffs and say on the call when a bigger job runs into the flood rules.
Size, shade and sprinklers. More doors, more trim, more pergolas and more outbuildings than most of the county, under an oak canopy that keeps the wood damp, with irrigation running on an acre lot every morning, and heavy impact doors whose hinges and locks wear under the weight. The jobs are the same as anywhere; there are simply more of them.
Doors, hardware, trim, shutters, drywall, pergolas, 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 or beam that carries a roof is an engineer's call, so we name them on the call and tell you who to call. A new pergola or a new deck is a different job, and we say so.
Most Pinecrest jobs are priced on the call, in writing, from a description or photos, before anything is scheduled. An estate list, a pergola rebuild or a cabana bath refresh gets a walk-through first and a written scope, with the manager if there is one. What you approve is what you pay.
A lot of our Pinecrest work comes through a house manager or a caretaker. We take the list by text or email, price it in writing, schedule around the household, send photos when each item is done, and keep one running list so nothing is started twice.
We answer in under three rings and most repairs are priced on the call, in writing, before anything is booked.
The technician arrives with the hardware, patching and fastening stock the usual list needs, so the first visit is the working visit.
Rot, a frame rebuild, a slider swap or a bathroom item gets a look and a written scope. You approve before work begins.
Every job is backed by our one-year workmanship warranty, and the area is clean when we leave.
Florida does not license handymen; it licenses contractors, and under state law anyone paid to repair or improve a structure is one, with only casual minor work under a set small amount exempt. Structural work, roofing, air conditioning, plumbing and electrical are reserved for state-licensed contractors, and Miami-Dade issues its own specialty certificates. Kaminskiy Care and Repair is bonded and insured with Kaminskiy-certified, background-checked technicians; we work the carpentry, doors, trim, drywall, fences, rot and finish side of the list and send the licensed trades to the right license.
Pinecrest 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; a rehung door, a patched wall, a shutter rail or a beam end is that kind of work, and we check with the village before a bigger job rather than guess. The village says plainly that not every project qualifies for the 2026 state exemption, that windows, doors and roofs stay structural, and that a lot in a flood hazard area still needs a permit, so we do not promise it.
Pinecrest counts an exterior door replacement as structural: in the high-velocity hurricane zone it 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, and a big-box door without that approval will not pass, so we check the approval and the size before you order. Much of the village east of Old Cutler Road and along the creeks sits in a flood hazard area, where a repair large enough to count as a substantial improvement brings the flood rules into play; a rehung door or a rebuilt deck board is not that. Most of the village has no association; the village rules do that work.
Down US-1 from our office. Your Pinecrest crew dispatches from our South Florida office on Ponce de Leon Boulevard in Coral Gables, fifteen minutes up the road, so an estate list is usually on the calendar within days. Call 786-527-2055, text photos, 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 786-527-2055We answer in under three rings, price most repairs on the call and usually schedule within days from our Coral Gables office, fifteen minutes up US-1. For an estate list we do a walk-through first, with the manager if there is one.
Send the list and photos and the price comes in writing before anything is scheduled. A long list, a pergola rebuild or a cabana bath refresh gets a walk-through and a written scope. The price you approve is the price you pay, item by item.
Yes. Impact doors are heavy, and builder hinges and short screws give up. We fit heavy-duty hinges with long screws into the framing, true the frame, reset the keepers of the multipoint lock and rehang the door so it closes and seals.
For doors, trim, shutters, drywall, pergolas, fences, decks, rot and finish work, a handyman, and Kaminskiy Care and Repair is bonded and insured with Kaminskiy-certified technicians. Florida reserves electrical, plumbing, air conditioning, roofing and structural work for state-licensed contractors, and we tell you who to call.
Not usually for an ordinary minor repair that matches what is there, which covers most door, trim, shutter and drywall work; the village building department decides, and we check before a bigger job. Pinecrest treats an exterior door replacement as structural, so that takes a permit and an approved, impact-tested door, and we tell you on the call.
That is how most of our Pinecrest work runs. The list comes by text or email, it is priced in writing, we schedule around the household and send photos when each item is done, and one running list means nothing is started twice.
All of the Village of Pinecrest from our Coral Gables office, from Kendall Drive to SW 136th Street and Old Cutler Road, including the Snapper Creek streets, the estate center around Pinecrest Gardens and the bay side, plus Palmetto Bay, South Miami, Coral Gables, Kendall and Coconut Grove. 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 Pinecrest 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.
