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Kaminskiy Care and Repair handles bathroom repairs and refresh remodels with one crew on one schedule, from fixtures and caulk to vanities and tile. You get a written scope and price before work begins. We serve Vancouver and the surrounding Washington communities.
Seven wet months and moderately hard well water. The Vancouver bathroom refresh, without the gut remodel.
A refresh keeps the walls and the drain where they are and replaces what wore out. In Vancouver that is a new vanity and top, a tub or shower surround, a glass shower door, grab bars set into the studs, an exhaust fan that finally moves the steam out, tile and caulk made sound, and paint that stands up to the damp. New products go in, on one schedule, from our office on NE Park Plaza Drive. The faucet and the toilet are set by the licensed plumber we schedule, and the fan is wired by the licensed electrician, the way Washington requires.
AFTERBEFOREEvery one of these is routine for a Kaminskiy-certified technician based on NE Park Plaza Drive. Text a photo of the bathroom. One call puts the whole list on one schedule.
Priced and on the calendar during the first call.
A written scope you approve before anyone drives out.
One crew, the whole list, warranty in writing.
A one-year workmanship warranty, in writing, on every Vancouver bathroom job.
Damp and minerals. Rain falls here from October to May and the house stays closed up, so steam lingers in a bathroom that has a weak fan or none, and mildew comes back in the caulk and the corners every winter. The city's water is all from the aquifers and runs moderately hard to hard, so scale builds on glass doors, showerheads and aerators. Add a 1970s tile wall over plain drywall or a 1990s particleboard vanity, and the bathroom wears out before the house does.
A refresh keeps the layout. The walls, the drain and the tub stay where they are, and the vanity, the top, the surround, the door, the fixtures, the fan, the tile and the paint are replaced or repaired. That is our work. Moving a drain, taking out a wall, turning a tub into a walk-in shower or gutting to the studs is a remodel, and it goes to a remodeling contractor with its own permit. We tell you which one you have on the call, from the photos.
Washington keeps them separate from the handyman. A faucet, a toilet, a trap or a supply line is plumbing under state law and must be done by a certified plumber working for a licensed plumbing contractor, not by us. A hard-wired fan or a light fixture is the licensed electrician's. We schedule both, they set the fixtures and wire the fan, and we do the vanity, the surround, the door, the grab bars, the tile, the drywall and the paint around them, all on one calendar.
The fan is the whole game in Vancouver. It has to vent outside, not into the attic, and it has to run long enough after the shower to clear the room, so we put a timer switch on the licensed electrician's list. Caulk is replaced, never bridged, with a mildew-resistant silicone, the grout is sealed, the window in the shower gets a sill that sheds water, and the paint is a bathroom enamel that wipes clean. Then the mildew has nowhere to live.
Craftsman and bungalow houses from the 1900s to the 1930s and the shipyard tracts of the 1940s: one small bathroom, tile set in mortar, a cast iron tub, a window in the shower and no fan at all. The mildew lives in the ceiling corners, the tile is sound but the caulk and grout at the tub have given up, and the vanity is a 1960s replacement on its third top. We keep the tile that is good, reset the surround or glaze what stays, add the fan and the grab bars, and set a vanity that fits a 1920s wall.
Ranch houses and split-levels from the 1950s to the 1970s, the biggest slice of Vancouver's housing. Tile over drywall above the tub that has gone hollow, a cultured marble top that is crazed and yellow, a harvest-gold tub that nobody wants to pay to pull, and a fan ducted into the attic instead of outside. We set a new surround over a sound wall, replace the vanity and top, put in a glass door, and have the licensed electrician wire a fan that vents through the roof.
Tracts from the 1980s to the 2000s, many in associations, with oak builder vanities, cultured marble tops, brass fixtures and a one-piece fiberglass surround. The particleboard vanity swells at the toe kick, the top chips at the bowl, scale from the hard well water frosts the glass, and the thirty-year-old fan moves no air. We replace the vanity and top, hang a new door, set grab bars into the studs, and have the licensed plumber set the faucet and the toilet on the same morning.
Call 360-347-2002 or text three photos: the vanity, the tub wall, the ceiling and fan. We tell you on the call whether it is a refresh or a remodel and what the list looks like.
A technician measures, checks the wall behind the surround and the floor under the toilet, and you get a written scope: products, the licensed plumber's and electrician's parts, the permit if one is needed, and the price. You approve before anything is ordered.
Products arrive, the licensed plumber and electrician are booked for their mornings, and our crew does the rest in order: demolition, wall repair, surround, vanity, door, grab bars, tile, caulk and paint.
The bathroom is cleaned, the old vanity and surround hauled off, and the one-year workmanship warranty is on the invoice, with the plumber's and electrician's permits and paperwork in the same folder.
Washington has no small-job exemption. Anyone paid to construct, alter or repair a building, handyman work included, must be registered as a contractor with the Department of Labor and Industries, bond and insurance on file, and it is a crime to advertise or take the work without it. Kaminskiy Care and Repair is registered, bonded and insured, with Kaminskiy-certified, background-checked technicians. Plumbing is its own trade: since 2021 only a licensed plumbing contractor employing certified plumbers may do or even offer plumbing work, and a general contractor's registration is not enough, so the faucet, the toilet and the trap are set by the licensed plumber we schedule. Electrical is the same: a hard-wired fan or light is installed by a licensed electrical contractor with certified electricians. We do the vanity, the surround, the door, the grab bars, the tile, the drywall and the paint.
The state residential code Vancouver enforces needs no permit for painting, tiling, cabinets, countertops and similar finish work, so a vanity, a top, a door, grab bars, tile and caulk repair and paint are permit-free. The plumbing code leaves alone the stopping of leaks, the clearing of stoppages and the lifting and resetting of a toilet; a new faucet, toilet or trap is a plumbing trade permit through the City's Permit Center, and the licensed plumber pulls it. Vancouver runs its own electrical program: a like-for-like swap of one hard-wired fan or a light fixture needs no permit under the state list, while any new circuit or a fan where there was none does, and the licensed electrician pulls that one. Anything that moves a wall or a drain is a residential building permit and a remodel, not a refresh.
Hazel Dell, Salmon Creek, Felida and Orchards are unincorporated Clark County: the plumbing permit for any fixture comes from Clark County Community Development, and the electrical permit from Labor and Industries, not the City. Most of west and central Vancouver has no association; many east-side and north-county streets do, and a bathroom refresh inside the house rarely needs a form. In a condo the association decides when the building's water can be shut off for the plumber and what hours the work can run, so we ask the manager before the plumber is booked.
Our Clark County office. The Vancouver crew works out of our office on NE Park Plaza Drive in east Vancouver, open every day 8 to 8, and covers the whole county from the west-side streets to Camas, Salmon Creek and Orchards. Call 360-347-2002, text a photo of the bathroom, or send the form. We answer Monday to Friday, 8 to 4:30.
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Call 360-347-2002If the layout works and the tub, the walls and the drain can stay, a refresh does it: new vanity and top, a surround, a door, fixtures, grab bars, a fan, tile and caulk repair and paint. If you want the tub gone, a wall moved or the toilet somewhere else, that is a remodel for a remodeling contractor with a building permit. Text us photos and we tell you which on the call.
A licensed plumber, by Washington law. A faucet, a toilet or a trap is plumbing work that only a certified plumber working for a licensed plumbing contractor may do, so we schedule one for your job and put it on the same calendar as our work. We set the vanity cabinet and the top, the surround, the door and the grab bars; the plumber connects the fixtures.
The licensed electrician wires it, and our crew does the ceiling. In Washington a hard-wired fan is the electrical contractor's work, so we cut the opening, run the patch and the paint, and have the fan ducted outside through the roof or the wall, never into the attic, with a timer switch so it runs after the shower.
Most Vancouver refreshes run a few working days once the products are in hand, with the toilet back the same evening it is pulled wherever the plumber's schedule allows. A surround and a new door take longer because the adhesive and the silicone cure before the first shower. The written scope gives you the days before we start.
It depends on what is replaced and what the plumber and the electrician have to do. Text photos of the vanity, the tub wall and the ceiling, and the scope and price come in writing after the look, products, trades and permits included, before anything is ordered. What you approve is what you pay.
Yes. Every Vancouver bathroom job carries our one-year workmanship warranty in writing, and the new products carry the maker's warranty. The licensed plumber's and electrician's work is warranted by them and permitted where a permit applies, and the paperwork comes to you in one folder.
A vanity, a top, a door, grab bars, tile and caulk repair and paint need no permit under the state code Vancouver enforces. A new faucet, toilet or trap is a plumbing trade permit the licensed plumber pulls through the City's Permit Center, and a new circuit for a fan is the licensed electrician's permit. In Hazel Dell, Salmon Creek, Felida and Orchards the county issues the plumbing permit and Labor and Industries the electrical one.
All of Vancouver from Esther Short and Hough to Cascade Park and Fisher's Landing, plus Hazel Dell, Salmon Creek, Felida, Orchards, Camas and Washougal. Call 360-347-2002 to confirm your address.
Tell us what the bathroom needs. We'll call you back with a price and a time. Calling is still the fastest way: 360-347-2002.
A written scope first, the whole list on one schedule, warranted in writing.
We answer Monday to Friday, 8 to 4:30.No price games. You get a clear written quote before any work begins, backed by our workmanship warranty.
