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Vancouver renovations run on the weather. Kaminskiy Care and Repair puts the interior work in the wet months and the deck and the exterior paint in the dry ones, as one project from our office on NE Park Plaza Drive, open every day: a kitchen or bathroom refresh with new cabinets, counters and fixtures in a Cascade Park tract house, floors and paint through a Salmon Creek home between closing and the movers, the plaster and fir of a Hough bungalow brought back, a Rose Village rental turned over between tenants, a Camas house made ready for a parent. One written scope, one crew. Moving walls, plumbing or wiring is a remodel, and we say so on the first call. Call 360-347-2002.
Refreshes and multi-day projects, priced in writing from Park Plaza Drive.
A 1994 Fisher's Landing kitchen with the builder's oak and laminate has a plan worth keeping. New counters, a backsplash, hardware, a sink and lights make it a different room without moving anything, which is a refresh. Several rooms on one calendar make a project: the Salmon Creek house refloored and repainted before the movers, the Rose Village rental turned over, the plaster skimmed and the fir refinished through a Hough bungalow. 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.
AFTERBEFOREKaminskiy Care and Repair writes any of those up as a single scope from Park Plaza Drive. Call 360-347-2002. A room is a matter of days. A whole house gets a calendar with the interior work in the wet months and the deck in the dry ones, and you sign it before the first day.
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 Vancouver project.
Rooms stay, surfaces change: refresh. Rooms stay, several of them change on one calendar, or one repair runs for weeks: project. Rooms move: remodel. Vancouver gets the first two from Kaminskiy Care and Repair and, for the third, the name of a licensed general contractor before the first call ends.
Not the square footage. Leave the sink and the range in a Cascade Highlands kitchen where they stand and there is no permit to pull and no trade to schedule beyond the licensed plumber's hour, so the refresh comes in at a fraction of gutting the room. You see every figure on paper, and we order nothing until you have signed it.
In the wartime houses in the middle of the city the siding wicked for decades and the wall under the window is wet. That wall is rebuilt before any finish work goes near it: rot, then plaster and paint, then floors, then cabinets and fixtures, then trim. Skip the sequence and the second trade ruins the first.
From October to May the crew is inside: one room at a time, floors covered, dust sealed off, the hall clear by dinner. The deck and the exterior paint are booked into the dry weeks and the scope says so in writing. An empty house between closing and the move runs with the trades on consecutive days.
Craftsman and bungalow houses from the 1900s to the 1930s with fir trim, plaster walls, sash windows and deep porches. Projects here are kitchens and baths brought up to date behind the original walls, plaster skimmed instead of torn out, fir floors refinished, the porch rebuilt in kind. A house on the heritage register keeps its street face; the inside is yours.
Wartime and mid-century houses with small kitchens, builder baths and the rentals that turn over tenant by tenant. Projects are the kitchen and baths refreshed in the footprint, floors and paint through the house, the enclosed carport finished properly as the room it became, and the turnovers priced as one list and run back to back.
Tracts from the 1980s to the 2000s, many in associations, with the first owner's kitchen and baths and a deck on a ledger. The layouts are sound, so the work is counters, backsplash, vanities, floors, paint and hardware changed across the house on one schedule, popcorn ceilings taken down, and the deck rebuilt in the dry months as part of the same scope.
A kitchen relocated, a wall taken out, a room added, a unit built over the garage: a licensed general contractor designs and builds that, with the engineer and the full permit set it needs. Tell us the plan on the first call. We will say which kind of job it is before you hang up, and nobody bids twice to find out.
The keys to a Salmon Creek, Orchards or Camas house come with about two weeks before the truck. Floors, paint, a bathroom refresh and the inspector's list go on one scope and run on consecutive days in the empty house. We walk it the afternoon you close; if a kitchen refresh is in the plan, the cabinets are ordered before that.
A Rose Village or Bagley Downs rental comes back with drywall holes, a worn kitchen and carpet past saving. Before we leave we write the list with a price per line, then paint, floors, fixtures and hardware follow each other until it is ready to show, usually inside the week. One vendor, one invoice, every room on camera.
Grab bars into blocking, a curbless shower with new fixtures, lever handles throughout, a covered ramp at the porch for the rainy months, brighter light, a first-floor bedroom and bath. We plan it with the family as a single scope and finish it before the week they arrive.
Tell us what you want to change. Small refreshes are priced on the call. A multi-room project gets a walk-through from our Park Plaza Drive 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 Vancouver 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.
Washington has no small-job exemption. Anyone paid to construct, alter or repair a building, a renovation crew included, must be registered as a contractor with the Department of Labor and Industries, which means a bond and liability insurance on file. Kaminskiy Care and Repair is registered, bonded and insured, with Kaminskiy-certified, background-checked technicians, and puts every project on a written contract before it starts. Electrical and plumbing are licensed separately in Washington, 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 engineer.
Vancouver asks for a residential building permit for construction, alteration and repair of a house, and lists what it leaves alone: painting, carpeting, cabinets, countertops and similar finish work, a fence to six feet, a low deck. The state residential code underneath adds that an ordinary repair needs no application. 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 changes or a deck ledger is rebuilt, and that call goes to the Permit Center before we open anything, with the permit in the written scope.
Officers Row and the Barracks are the national historic reserve, and a west-side house in Hough, Esther Short or Arnada may be on the heritage register, which means the historic preservation review before the outside changes; the inside of the house is not reviewed, and a kitchen, a bath, the floors and the paint are yours. A full re-side anywhere in Vancouver falls under Washington's moisture rules for new siding and is a permit and a different job. Most of west and central Vancouver has no association; many east-side streets do, and a project that touches the outside goes on the form.
Our Clark County office. The Vancouver crews work out of the office on NE Park Plaza Drive in east Vancouver, open every day 8 to 8, and cover the county from the west-side streets to Camas, Salmon Creek and Orchards. Since 2024 that has meant 268 repair visits on 106 Vancouver homes. Call 360-347-2002 with the rooms or the photos. The whole county is on our Vancouver handyman page.
Reviewed by Sergei Kaminskiy, founder, November 7, 2026.
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Call 360-347-2002Renovation if the rooms stay where they are: cabinets, counters, vanity, floors, paint, plaster, all new, all in place. Remodel if walls, pipes or wiring move. A Vancouver kitchen that still works but looks thirty years old is the first and costs far less; a kitchen you want on the other side of the house is the second, and the licensed general contractor who should build it gets named on the call.
The cabinets, the counters, the floor and the hours to install them, never a rate per square foot. One room: photos and a call usually give you a written price. Several rooms: someone from Park Plaza Drive walks the house with you and writes a scope with a figure on every line, and nothing is ordered until you have signed it. Call 360-347-2002.
Washington licenses plumbers and electricians separately, so the faucet and toilet are the licensed plumber's and the new light and fan are the licensed electrician's. We book them into the scope on the right day. The vanity, mirror, shower door, tile, paint, trim and door are our crew's, and you still have one number to call.
Usually, yes, and it is one of the most common jobs we do in Clark County. We walk the house the afternoon you close, you sign the written scope, and floors, paint, a bath refresh and the inspector's list run on consecutive days in the empty house. Floors and paint fit in two weeks; a kitchen refresh wants the cabinets and counters ordered before closing day.
Not for finish work. Painting, carpeting, cabinets, countertops and similar items are on the city's leave-alone list, and a fixture swapped in the same spot is the licensed trade's repair. The Permit Center comes in when plumbing or wiring moves, a wall comes out or an opening changes, and we make that call before anything is opened.
In a Hough, Arnada or Esther Short house from before 1940, usually. Ten minutes after the carpet, pad and tack strip come up we can tell you. Boards get patched where a wall or a vent once was, the floor is sanded and finished, and the fixtures go back in afterward. It is written into the scope with everything else.
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 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: 360-347-2002.
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.
