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Vancouver doors swell in October and shrink in July, and the frames soak at the sill for seven months a year. Entry doors that stick through the wet season, sliders that drag on gritty tracks, jambs gone soft at the threshold and the garage-to-house door that no longer closes on its own are the door calls here, and we plane, rehang, rebuild and install, from an office on NE Park Plaza Drive.
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THE LISTALL DONEEvery one of these is routine for a Kaminskiy-certified technician based on NE Park Plaza Drive. Make one list. One call handles the lot.
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 Vancouver job.
Craftsman and bungalow houses from the 1900s to the 1930s with cedar lap, fir trim, wood-sash windows, deep porches and original doors. Doors bind in frames that settled a century ago, porch posts rot at the base, plaster cracks over the openings. We keep the original where it can be saved, splice new wood into old and match the profile.
Wartime and mid-century houses with hardboard and T1-11 siding, aluminum windows in wood bucks, carports on posts and builder doors that have soaked for decades. The T1-11 wicks at the bottom edge, the carport post goes at the slab, the side door crumbles at the step. We cut back, flash, rebuild the post bases and rehang the doors.
Tracts from the 1980s to the 2000s, many in associations, with engineered lap, wood-clad sills, corner trim and decks on ledgers. The east wind finds the butt joints, the sill corners go soft, thirty-year-old sliders wear out their rollers. We rebuild the trim to the scheme, reflash the sills and put the materials in writing for the form.
Water, mostly, and time. Forty inches of rain between October and May, moss on anything that faces north, gutters that fill with fir needles and overflow onto the fascia, and an east wind out of the Gorge that drives the rain sideways. Wood that stays wet rots and invites carpenter ants. A sticking door or a soft trim board is a small job in year one and a rebuild in year five, and most of what we fix in Vancouver waited a winter too long.
Doors, drywall, trim, siding patches, fences, decks, rot, caulk, shelving and the list of small things are handyman work. Electrical and plumbing are licensed separately in Washington, so a circuit, a panel or a re-pipe goes to the licensed electrician or plumber; a roof, a gas line or anything that holds the house up goes to its own licensed trade, and we say so on the call rather than guess.
Most Vancouver jobs are priced on the call from your description or a photo, in writing, before anything is scheduled. The bigger ones, a rotted sill, a deck rebuild or a bathroom refresh, get a look first and a written scope. The price you approve is the price at the house.
Half of what rots in Vancouver rots because of a gutter. A gutter that lost its pitch, a downspout that dumps beside the foundation, moss holding water on the north fascia: we clear and reset the gutter run, extend the downspout, scrape and treat the moss on the deck and the fence, and rebuild the fascia behind it, so the repair is the last one that spot needs.
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.
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, which means a bond and liability insurance on file, and it is a crime to advertise or take the work without it. Kaminskiy Care and Repair is registered in Washington (KAMINCR761L8), licensed in Oregon (CCB #252813), bonded and insured, with Kaminskiy-certified, background-checked technicians. Electrical and plumbing are licensed separately in Washington, so that work goes to the licensed electrician or plumber, and anything structural to the engineer; we do the carpentry, drywall and finish work around them.
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, a small shed. The state residential code underneath adds that an ordinary repair needs no application, never the cutting of a beam or a load-bearing wall. A rehung door, a patched wall, a rebuilt sill or a run of trim is that kind of repair; a re-side, a rafter tail or a deck ledger is the call we make with the Permit Center before we open it, and the permit goes into 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; a repair that matches needs nothing. A full re-side anywhere in Vancouver falls under Washington's moisture rules for new siding and is a permit and a different job from a like-for-like patch. Most of west and central Vancouver has no association; many east-side streets do, and a repair painted to match rarely needs a form.
Our Clark County office. The Vancouver crew works out of our office on NE Park Plaza Drive in east Vancouver, open Monday to Friday 8 to 4:30, and covers the whole county from the west-side streets to Camas, Salmon Creek and Orchards. Call 360-347-2002, text a photo, or send the form, and we answer in under three rings.
Reviewed by Sergei Kaminskiy, founder, November 7, 2026.
Can't find your answer? Call 360-347-2002 and ask us anything.
Call 360-347-2002We answer in under three rings, price most repairs on the call and usually schedule within days. The crew starts the day at our office on NE Park Plaza Drive in east Vancouver, so the west side, the middle and the east-side tracts get the same answer.
It depends on the list. Tell us what needs fixing, or text a photo, and the price comes on the call, in writing, before anything is scheduled. No service-call surprise at the house: what you approve is what you pay.
That is the whole idea. The sticking door, the drywall hole, the mossy deck boards, the gate that drags and the shelf go on one list, and one Kaminskiy-certified technician with a stocked truck works through it in a single visit wherever the parts allow.
In Washington there is no difference in law: anyone paid for repair work on a house must be registered as a contractor with the Department of Labor and Industries, bond and insurance included. Kaminskiy Care and Repair is registered in Washington (KAMINCR761L8), licensed in Oregon (CCB #252813), bonded and insured, and every technician is Kaminskiy-certified and background checked. Electrical and plumbing are licensed separately, and we send that work to the licensed trade.
Usually not. The City of Vancouver leaves painting, carpeting, cabinets, countertops and similar finish work alone, and the state residential code asks for no application for an ordinary repair: a rehung door, a patched wall, a rebuilt sill. A re-side, a rafter tail or a deck ledger is where we check with the Permit Center first and tell you on the call.
Because the wood takes on water from October to May and swells, usually from the bottom rail up where the finish let go. We plane the door, seal the end grain and the edges, adjust the strike and, if the sill is soft, rebuild it, so the door closes with one hand in January and still latches in July.
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 list, or text a photo, and we call back with a written price and a time. Calling is still faster: 360-347-2002.
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 Vancouver 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.
