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Austin doors move with the ground under them. The clay swells after a wet spring and shrinks through a hundred-degree summer, so a front door that closed in April rubs the jamb by August, and the patio slider drags on rollers full of grit. West-facing doors cook in the afternoon sun until the finish checks. We plane and rehang, replace rollers and weatherstrip, rebuild a rotted jamb, and install the new door you bought in the same opening, which Austin lists as work that needs no permit.
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THE LISTALL DONEEvery one of these is a job a Kaminskiy-certified technician does every week across Austin. Make the list, call once.
We answer in under three rings and get you priced and scheduled in minutes.
A clear, written quote with upfront pricing. You approve before work begins.
Kaminskiy-certified pros finish the job with a workmanship warranty.
Every job is backed in writing by our workmanship warranty and done by a Kaminskiy-certified, background checked technician.
The oldest houses in the metro: Hyde Park from 1891 and its bungalow boom of the 1920s and 1930s, Travis Heights from the 1920s, the post-war ranch blocks north of 45th Street, and Mueller's new homes on the old airport. The old wood-frame houses ask for door and window carpentry, rotted trim spliced to match, and plaster and drywall patched; the new builds ask for the punch list the builder left.
Round Rock went from about 31,000 people in 1990 to about 119,000 in 2020, and Cedar Park, Leander, Pflugerville and Georgetown grew the same way, so most of these houses are slab-on-grade builds from the 1990s to today in association communities. The work is drywall cracks from slab movement, doors that bind, fences blown over, hail-dented siding, and the garage and closet doors the builder set in a hurry.
Limestone hills west of the city and black clay to the east and south, where Kyle grew from about 5,000 people in 2000 to about 46,000 in 2020. The list is decks and fences on the hill lots, water damage after the creeks come up, cracks from clay movement on the flat side, and the rot that follows the sprinklers on the 1980s and 1990s tracts.
The ground moves here. Central Texas sits on clay that swells after a wet spring and shrinks through a summer with 29 days at 100 degrees or more and 123 days at 90 or more, so doors, drywall and trim move with it. Add spring hail, flash floods on the creeks, a humid summer that rots anything that stays wet, and a freeze like February 2021 every few years, and the list of small repairs never stays short.
Doors, drywall, trim, fences, decks, rot, caulk and the finish work are ours. Electrical, plumbing and air conditioning are licensed trades in Texas and go to the licensed electrician, plumber or air conditioning contractor, along with gas lines, a roof and anything structural, and we tell you so on the call. Termite treatment is the pest company's job; rebuilding what the termites ate is ours.
A door that rubs because the slab moved gets planed and rehung, not replaced. A slider with worn rollers gets rollers. A fence with sound posts gets new pickets; a fence with heaved posts gets the posts reset first. We say which on the call, in writing, and we do not sell the bigger job when the smaller one will hold.
Austin publishes a list of work that needs no building permit: a door replaced in the same opening with the same operation, a drywall repair up to 128 square feet, siding repair to the same size, a fence to seven feet outside a floodplain, trim and soffit repairs, and painting, tiling, cabinets and countertops. A deck needs a permit unless it is under 200 square feet, under 30 inches off the ground and not attached to the house. Anything past that list, we check with Development Services before we quote.
The sticking door, the drywall hole, the gate that drags. Call or text it over and we price it on the call, in writing.
Hinges, strikes, weatherstrip, anchors, compound, fasteners and the common parts ride on the truck, so one visit usually clears the list.
Anything that needs opening a wall, rebuilding a frame or matching a finish gets a look and a written price before we start.
We tidy up, walk you through what was done, and the one-year workmanship warranty is in writing.
Texas has no state handyman or general contractor license; the City of Austin says so on its own contractor page, and only registers a general contractor before a permit is pulled. What the state does license, through the Department of Licensing and Regulation and the plumbing board, is electrical, plumbing and air conditioning work, and those trades are never ours. A handyman in Texas is as good as the company behind him, so ask the questions the state does not: Kaminskiy Care and Repair is bonded and insured as a company, every technician is Kaminskiy-certified and background checked, the price is in writing before the visit, and the workmanship carries a one-year warranty in writing.
Austin Development Services keeps a written list of work exempt from a building permit. On it: replacing doors of the same size and operation, gypsum board repairs up to 128 square feet, siding repairs to the same limit, fences not over seven feet outside a flood hazard area, trim and soffit repairs, an overhead garage door, and painting, papering, tiling, cabinets, countertops and similar finish work. Off it: a deck over 200 square feet or attached to the house, a fence in the floodplain at any height, a new shower or tub, and anything that touches framing. A solid fence along a property line is held to six feet unless the city's fence rules and the neighbor's written consent allow more. Where the list is silent we call the city and tell you what it said.
Most of the subdivisions built around Austin since the 1990s, from Avery Ranch and Teravista to Circle C Ranch and the Georgetown and Kyle tracts, are association communities with an architectural review. A repair painted to match rarely needs a form; a new fence line, a new door style or a new color usually does, and we put the materials in writing for the application. Texas law gives an owner in an association of more than forty lots a written reason for any denial and a hearing before the board within thirty days, so a reasonable repair is hard to refuse.
A local crew, scheduled by phone. Kaminskiy has no office in Austin. Your work is done by a local Austin crew that we dispatch through our national line, which is why the price comes on the call, in writing, before anyone is scheduled. Call 512-846-7414, text a photo, or send the form.
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Call 512-846-7414We have no office in Austin; your repair is done by a local Austin crew that we dispatch through our national line. Call, describe the list, and most repairs are priced on the call and scheduled within days, from central Austin out to Georgetown, Leander and Kyle.
Tell us the list, or text a photo of the worst item, and you get the price on the call, in writing, before anything is scheduled. There is no service fee waiting at the house. A bigger job, a rotted door frame or a bathroom refresh, gets a look first and a written scope.
That is how Austin homeowners use us. The door that rubs, the drywall crack, the fence gate and the deck board go on one list, and one Kaminskiy-certified technician works through it with a stocked truck. Anything that needs a part we do not carry gets scheduled before we leave.
No. Texas has no state handyman or general contractor license, and the City of Austin says a general contractor needs no state license to register and pull a permit. The state does license electricians, plumbers and air conditioning contractors, and that work goes to the licensed trade, not to us. What you can check is the company: Kaminskiy Care and Repair is bonded and insured, the price is in writing, and the workmanship warranty is one year in writing.
Usually not. Austin's list of work exempt from a building permit includes a door replaced in the same opening, a drywall repair up to 128 square feet, siding repair to the same size, a fence to seven feet outside the floodplain, trim and soffit repairs, and painting, tiling, cabinets and countertops. A deck attached to the house, a fence in the floodplain, a new shower or tub and anything that touches framing need one, and we check with Development Services before we quote.
In Austin it is usually the clay. The soil swells in a wet spring and shrinks in the heat, and the slab and the frame move a little with it, so a door rubs in August and closes in January. We plane and rehang the door and patch the cracks that opened with it. If a crack keeps widening, a door drops at one corner or a floor slopes, we tell you to have a foundation company or a structural engineer look before we do finish work over it.
All of Austin, from Hyde Park and Travis Heights to Circle C Ranch and Northwest Hills, plus Round Rock, Pflugerville, Cedar Park, Leander, Georgetown and Kyle. Call 512-846-7414 to confirm your address and get on the schedule.
Tell us what needs fixing. We'll call you back with a price and a time. Calling is still the fastest way: 512-846-7414.
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 Austin 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.
