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A Portland renovation is as much about what to keep as what to change. Kaminskiy Care and Repair keeps the fir, the plaster and the sash and renews everything around them, as one project from our office on Tanasbourne Drive in Hillsboro: a kitchen or bathroom refresh with new cabinets, counters and fixtures in a Sellwood bungalow, fir floors uncovered and refinished, paint through a Montavilla house before the movers, a St. Johns fourplex turned over between tenants, a West Hills kitchen brought up to date with the deck rebuilt the same month. One written scope, one crew. Moving walls, plumbing or wiring is a remodel, and we say so on the first call. Call 971-571-5787.
Refreshes and multi-day projects, priced in writing from Tanasbourne Drive.
A 1912 Hawthorne bungalow with a sound plan and a 1980s kitchen wants its counters, backsplash, hardware and lighting done again with the fir trim and plaster kept, not a new footprint. That is a refresh. Several rooms on one calendar make a project: the St. Johns fourplex turned over, the Beaverton house refloored and repainted before the movers, the sash windows freed and the plaster skimmed through an Irvington house. 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 Tanasbourne Drive. Call 971-571-5787. A room takes days; a whole house comes with a schedule that puts the interior work in the rain and the exterior work in the dry weeks, approved 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 Portland project.
Same layout, new cabinets, surfaces, fixtures and finishes: a refresh. Several rooms on one schedule, a house done before the movers, a fourplex turned over, a whole house of sash and plaster brought back: a project. Walls, plumbing or wiring moving: a remodel for a licensed general contractor. The first two are ours; the third gets the contractor's name on the call.
Finishes and hours set it, not square footage. A Laurelhurst kitchen that keeps its sink and range in place needs no permit and only the licensed plumber's hour, so its refresh costs a fraction of a remodel. Every line is written down before a date is set.
Repairs and rot first, then plaster and paint, then floors, then cabinets, fixtures and hardware, then trim. The wall of a 1910s house usually holds galvanized pipe and old wiring, which the licensed plumber and electrician replace before anything is closed; a soft sill or a settled frame is ours. The flooring is ordered after that.
Interior work runs straight through the wet season: one room at a time, floors protected, dust walled off, the hall cleared each evening. Exterior paint and the deck wait for the dry weeks, and the scope says which is which. A turnover runs in an empty unit with the trades following each other day after day.
Craftsman bungalows and foursquares from the 1900s to the 1940s with fir trim, plaster walls, sash windows and front porches. Projects here are kitchens and baths brought up to date behind the original walls, plaster skimmed instead of torn out, fir floors refinished, sash windows freed and re-corded, the porch rebuilt in kind. In Irvington and the other historic districts the inside is yours and the street face stays as the review expects.
Midcentury and 1970s to 1990s homes on slopes under firs, with decks facing the weather. Projects are the kitchen and baths refreshed in the footprint, floors and paint through the house, and the deck and railings rebuilt as part of the same scope, scheduled for the dry months while the interior runs through the rain.
Younger buildings with drywall, sliders and builder finishes, and the condos and rentals that turn over tenant by tenant. The layouts are sound, so the work is counters, backsplash, vanities, floors, paint and hardware changed on one schedule, the turnovers priced as one list, and the association's form handled where a project touches the outside.
A wall opened, a kitchen moved, an addition, a basement dug out, an accessory dwelling: that is design-and-build work for a licensed general contractor, with an engineer and a full permit set. Say what you want on the first call and you will know which kind of company you need before the call ends.
A Sellwood bungalow or an Irvington foursquare asks for the same fir profile, the same plaster 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 fir doors, free and re-cord the sash, and refinish fir floors last seen in 1970.
A house in Beaverton, Montavilla or Hillsboro closes and the owners have a fortnight. Floors, paint, a bathroom refresh and the inspection list become one scope, run back to back in the empty house, so the first night is spent in a finished one. We walk it the day escrow closes.
A St. Johns fourplex or a Woodstock rental comes back with cracked plaster, a worn kitchen and carpet over the fir. We walk it the day the keys come back, write every item up with a price, and run paint, floors, fixtures and hardware on consecutive days so it lists within the week. One vendor, one invoice, every room photographed.
Tell us what you want to change. Small refreshes are priced on the call. A multi-room project gets a walk-through from our Hillsboro 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 Portland 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.
Oregon is plain about it: anyone paid to repair, improve or build a home has to hold a Construction Contractors Board license, and a renovation crew is no exception. Kaminskiy Care and Repair holds CCB #252813, is bonded and insured, and puts every project on a written contract before it starts, with the scope, the schedule and the price on it. Electrical and plumbing are licensed separately in Oregon, so the licensed plumber and electrician are brought in for the fixtures and the wiring and named on the scope, and anything structural goes to the right license.
Portland's own page says no building permit is needed to paint, to replace a window or a door in the same-size opening, to replace flooring, cabinets or counters, or for a deck at or below 30 inches, and the state code adds that an ordinary repair with like materials needs no application at all. A fixture in the same place is the licensed trade's repair. The permit question for a project starts when plumbing or wiring moves, a wall comes out, an opening is new or resized, or a deck stands over 30 inches, and we say so on the walk-through and pull it as part of the job.
In Irvington, Ladd's Addition, the Alphabet District and Portland's other historic and conservation districts, repair and maintenance are exempt from historic review and the inside of the house is not reviewed at all: a kitchen, a bath, the floors, the plaster, the paint are yours. Replacing a whole window or a run of siding with a different material, or changing the design of the front door, is an alteration that may need review first, and we tell you when a project item is close to that line.
Twenty minutes west on the 26. The Portland crews work out of the office on Tanasbourne Drive in Hillsboro and cover the whole metro, from St. Johns to Sellwood and the West Hills. Since 2024 that has meant 1,112 repair visits on 430 Portland homes. Call 971-571-5787 with the rooms or the photos. The whole county is on our Portland handyman page.
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Call 971-571-5787If the rooms stay put 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 Portland 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.
On the finishes you choose and the labor it takes, never on square footage. One room is usually priced from photos and a short call. Several rooms get a walk-through from Hillsboro and a written scope with a price on every line, approved by you before anything is ordered. Call 971-571-5787 to start.
The licensed plumber and the licensed electrician; Oregon licenses those trades separately, 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.
Not the finish work. The city's own page says painting, flooring, cabinets, counters and a same-size door or window need no building permit, and a fixture replaced in the same spot is the licensed trade's repair. A permit comes in when plumbing or wiring moves, a wall comes out or an opening is new or resized. We settle it on the walk-through.
On the east side, in a house built before 1945, nearly always. Pull the carpet, pad and tack strip and we can tell you in minutes. Fir is soft and shows its history, which is the point; boards are patched where a wall or a vent once was, then the floor is sanded and finished before any fixture goes back in. It all goes in the written scope.
Repair them, nearly always. A 1920s fir sash freed from its paint, re-corded, weatherstripped and spliced where the bottom rail went soft outlasts a replacement unit and keeps the street face the neighborhood expects; in a historic district a replacement is also what triggers review. Window repair is part of most whole-house scopes.
The whole metro from our Hillsboro office: Portland's east side including Sellwood, Woodstock, Hawthorne, Montavilla, Alberta, Irvington and St. Johns, the Southwest hills including Hillsdale and Multnomah Village, plus Beaverton, Hillsboro, Tigard, Lake Oswego, Milwaukie and Clackamas. Call 971-571-5787 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: 971-571-5787.
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.
