Kaminskiy Care and Repair takes the stamped SB 721 report, prices every finding, files it with the Building and Safety permit and finishes the work for the final. No report yet? Our sister company, Kaminskiy Design & Remodeling, performs the inspection.
BBBAccredited BusinessKaminskiy Care and Repair (CSLB #1106209) repairs the wood-framed balconies, decks, exterior stairs and open walkways that California's balcony law (SB 721, Health and Safety Code 17973) covers on Beverly Hills apartment buildings of three or more units: the 1950s to 1970s walk-ups south of Wilshire, the courtyard buildings between Wilshire and Santa Monica Boulevard, and the rent-stabilized stock the City's soft-story program already retrofitted. Beverly Hills asks for the stamped report with the repair permit application, so we start from the report, whoever stamped it: a written price per finding, the permit and the Means and Method Plan filed with Building and Safety inside the 120-day window, the cantilevers, coatings and guardrails rebuilt, and the completion report for the City final. If the building has no report yet, our sister company Kaminskiy Design & Remodeling, a B general building contractor since 2008 (CSLB #922807), performs the inspection under its own contract with you and stamps the report inside 45 days. Condominium boards under SB 326 bring us the engineer's report and we do the repairs. Our Beverly Hills office is at 8383 Wilshire Boulevard, in the city.
Walk-ups, courtyard buildings, condo stacks and exterior stairs.
Beverly Hills treats SB 721 the way the statute reads: the owner of a three-unit-plus building gets every wood-framed balcony, deck, stair and walkway more than six feet up inspected by a qualified professional, keeps the stamped report for two cycles, and submits that report with the permit application for whatever it calls out. The permit and the work are where Kaminskiy Care and Repair comes in. We write a price per finding, file the permit and the Means and Method Plan the City wants for a tenant-occupied building, rebuild the cantilevers the inspector flagged, recoat the decks and galleries edge to edge, re-set the guardrails and hand Building and Safety the completion report for the final. For the inspection itself, our sister company Kaminskiy Design & Remodeling holds the license class and the years the statute names.
AFTERBEFORE
Dry Rot & Framing
Waterproofing & Coating
Railings & Guards
Stairs & Walkways
Emergency Shoring
Permit & Means and Method Plan
Re-inspection & Close-outNo Report Yet?All six are the calls the Wilshire office takes from owners and managers on the south side. A report with findings gets a written scope, the permit filing and the Means and Method Plan before the window closes, an immediate threat is closed and shored before the paperwork, and a building with no report yet gets the inspection booked with our sister company.
Email or text the stamped report with the address and the unit count. No report yet? Tell us the street and whether the building has balconies, an open stair, a gallery walkway or all three, and we arrange the inspection with Kaminskiy Design & Remodeling.
Kaminskiy Care and Repair walks the building against the findings, prices each one in writing, and files the permit with the report attached and the Means and Method Plan for a tenant-occupied building, inside the 120-day window.
Cantilevers, coatings, stairs and guardrails rebuilt inside the permit window, an immediate threat shored first, every item photographed, and the completion report delivered for the final.
Every job is backed in writing by our workmanship warranty and done by a Kaminskiy-certified, background checked technician.
A Beverly Hills report reads like the buildings it describes: cantilevered joists with elevated moisture behind the soffit, a membrane lifted at the slider, a guardrail anchored into a joist end that is no longer sound, a gallery scupper draining into the wall. Each line is a repair we price and permit on the south side every week. The service-life column decides the order: an element given a year or two is rebuilt first, and because the report goes in with the permit, the scope we write follows the inspector's numbering so Building and Safety can read the two side by side.
SB 721 (Health and Safety Code 17973) is the apartment law: three or more rental units, a first inspection that was due January 1, 2026, and a repeat every six years. SB 326 (Civil Code 5551) is the condominium law: a first inspection due January 1, 2025, a repeat every nine years with the reserve study, and an inspector who must be a licensed structural or civil engineer or an architect. A south-side building that was converted to condos follows SB 326; the walk-up next door follows SB 721.
An immediate threat means the element is closed off and shored at once and Building and Safety hears about it within 15 days. Every other finding runs on two 120-day windows: one to apply for the permit, one to finish the repairs once it is issued. In Beverly Hills the stamped report goes in with that permit application, and a tenant-occupied building needs its Means and Method Plan approved before the permit is released, so the paperwork starts the week the report lands.
A soft joist end at one balcony is cut back and sistered. A ledger that has gone across several units, or cantilevers rotted back into the wall, means those balconies are rebuilt from the framing out, with the waterproofing redone over the whole surface rather than patched. The re-inspection and the City final both expect the full membrane, and so does the next inspector six years on.
Beverly Hills is a renter city in the flats: about 59 percent of its homes are rented, more than 8,400 of its roughly 16,400 units are in buildings of five or more, over 90 percent were built before 1990, and about 7,700 units are rent-stabilized. Nearly all of that stock sits south of Santa Monica Boulevard, and that is where the SB 721 and SB 326 repairs happen.
Two- and three-story stucco walk-ups from the 1950s through the 1970s, many with the tuck-under parking that put them in the City's mandatory soft-story program after 2019, and most of them rent-stabilized. Their balconies are cantilevered joists through the front wall under a closed stucco soffit, and the stair to the second floor is an open wood run. The finding we see most is rot at the joist ends behind a soffit that looks fine from the sidewalk, with a guardrail anchored into it. The repair is new joist ends and a flashed ledger, a new membrane, and the rail re-set into sound wood, scheduled around the tenants and the Means and Method Plan.
Larger 1960s to 1980s apartment and condominium buildings around a courtyard or a pool, with gallery walkways and open stair towers serving every unit and a garage beneath. Walkways and stairs are exterior elevated elements with more traffic than any balcony: the coating wears through at the unit doors, a blocked scupper leaves standing water after the winter rain, and the stringer feet rot at the landings. A condominium building here is under SB 326 and brings us the engineer's report; an apartment building is under SB 721 and we inspect it ourselves.
A concrete tower is outside the wood test in the statute; a wood-framed building over a concrete podium, which is most of what went up on these streets from the 1980s to the 2000s, is inside it. The condo stacks with penthouse floors on Palm, Swall and Gale are SB 326 buildings, inspected by an engineer or an architect, repaired by us. Across the city line the same walk-ups answer to West Hollywood Building and Safety or to the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety, whose own bulletin on exterior elevated elements took effect January 1, 2026; our Wilshire crew works both sides of the line.
Three or more rental units under one roof puts the building under SB 721: inspection due January 1, 2026 and every six years after. A condominium project of three or more units is under SB 326 instead: inspection due January 1, 2025, every nine years after, by a licensed structural or civil engineer or an architect. A Beverly Hills duplex, and there are hundreds south of Wilshire, is outside both, though its balcony rots the same way. A building whose certificate of occupancy came on or after January 1, 2019 is inspected within six years of that date. Not sure which you own? Give us the address.
A flagged cantilever is opened from the soffit, the rot cut back to sound wood and the joists sistered or replaced through the wall with treated lumber, new hangers and a flashed connection. A deck or gallery coating is stripped to the sheathing and redone over the whole surface, sloped to the scupper rather than the stucco; the City final and the next inspector both expect the full membrane. Guardrails are re-set into the new framing or replaced at code height. Every item is photographed before, during and after, and the photos become the completion report.
Health and Safety Code 17973 requires the repairs to be performed by a qualified and licensed contractor to the inspector's recommendations, the Building Standards Code and the City's requirements; in Beverly Hills that is Kaminskiy Care and Repair (CSLB #1106209), working from any licensed inspector's stamped report. The inspection itself is reserved for a licensed architect, a licensed civil or structural engineer, a general contractor holding an A, B or C-5 license with at least five years as a license holder constructing multistory wood-frame buildings, or a certified building inspector, none of them a City employee at the time. Our sister company Kaminskiy Design & Remodeling, a B general building contractor since 2008 (CSLB #922807), is the inspecting contractor, under its own contract with you.
Repairs are priced from the report, one written line per finding: a sistered joist end and a membrane patch at one balcony is a small line, four rebuilt cantilevers with new rails on a front elevation is a larger one, and every line is in front of you before a date is set. No markup on a percentage, no surprise at the building, and the report is yours to take elsewhere for bids. The inspection, when the building still needs one, is one flat number per building from Kaminskiy Design & Remodeling, set from the element count and the number of types.
We read the findings and the remaining-life column, confirm SB 721 or SB 326, and book the site walk. No report yet? We arrange the inspection with our sister company and start here once it is stamped.
Tenants get written notice. Each finding is checked from the walking surface and from the garage or the soffit below, closed framing is metered or opened at one spot, and the scope is written line by line against the report.
The permit application goes to Building and Safety with the stamped report attached; a structural repair runs through plan review, a tenant-occupied building gets its Means and Method Plan approved by Rent Stabilization, and an immediate threat is shored before any of it.
The work inside the permit window, photos of every item, the completion report for Building and Safety, and a file that a lender, a buyer or the next inspector can read without calling us.
Health and Safety Code 17973(a) names the qualified inspectors: a licensed architect, a licensed civil or structural engineer, a general contractor with an A, B or C-5 license and five years' experience as a license holder in multistory wood-frame construction, or a certified building inspector. Subsection (g) requires the repairs to be made by a qualified and licensed contractor to the inspector's recommendations, the Building Standards Code and the City's rules; nothing in the section stops the inspecting company from doing them. The owner contracts the inspection directly with Kaminskiy Design & Remodeling, as the statute requires, and the repairs separately with Kaminskiy Care and Repair, so the report stands on its own if you bid the work elsewhere.
Beverly Hills is one of the California cities that publishes its own Exterior Elevated Elements page: the Community Development Department's Building and Safety Division publishes it, routes questions and immediate-threat reports to the Code Enforcement Division, and asks that the signed and stamped report be submitted with the permit application for the repairs the Building Official determines are required. The repair itself takes a Building and Safety building permit; a structural balcony or stair repair goes through plan review rather than the walk-in counter, and a tenant-occupied building needs a Means and Method Plan approved by the Rent Stabilization Division before the permit is released. The City's February 2026 permit list already carries balcony repairs filed against SB 721 reports, so the route is proven. An immediate threat is reported within 15 days.
The first inspection was due January 1, 2026 (AB 2579 pushed it back a year) and repeats every six years. After a report the owner has 120 days to apply for the permit and 120 days from the permit to finish. If the repairs are still open 180 days after the report, the inspector notifies the City, which sends a 30-day corrective notice; after that a civil penalty of one hundred to five hundred dollars per day runs until the work is done, the City may recover its enforcement costs, and a building safety lien can follow. Reports are kept for two inspection cycles and go to the buyer when the building sells.
Our office is on Wilshire, inside the city. The crew starts the day at 8383 Wilshire Boulevard, a few blocks from the buildings this page is about, and covers Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Westwood, Bel Air and the Hollywood Hills. Call 310-928-6211, text a photo of the report or the balcony, or send the form, and we answer in under three rings. The numbers since 2023: 65 repair visits, 33 Beverly Hills homes.
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Call 310-928-6211Send it to us with the address. We walk the building against the findings, price each one in writing, and file the permit application with Building and Safety with the report attached, inside the 120 days the statute allows; a tenant-occupied building gets its Means and Method Plan approved by Rent Stabilization before the permit is released. The repairs then run inside 120 days of the permit, an immediate threat is shored first, and the completion report closes the file at the City final.
Yes. The statute asks that the repairs follow the inspector's recommendations and be done by a qualified and licensed contractor; it does not care who stamped the report. Our scope follows the report's own numbering, so Building and Safety can read the two documents side by side.
One written line per finding, from the report: a sistered joist end and a membrane patch at one balcony is a small line, four rebuilt cantilevers with new rails on a front elevation is a larger one, and every line is in front of you before a date is set. Call 310-928-6211 with the report and the address and the written scope follows the site walk.
Our sister company does: Kaminskiy Design & Remodeling, a B general building contractor since 2008 (CSLB #922807), counts the element types, inspects at least 15 percent of each and stamps the report with photos inside 45 days, under its own contract with you, as the law requires. Kaminskiy Care and Repair (CSLB #1106209) then prices and completes the repairs the report calls out. Book it through the Wilshire office at 310-928-6211.
Yes, as two licensed companies in one group: Kaminskiy Design & Remodeling inspects and stamps the report, Kaminskiy Care and Repair repairs under its own license and its own contract. The statute does not bar the inspector from performing the work; it requires a qualified and licensed contractor working to the inspector's recommendations, the Building Standards Code and the City's requirements. Because every finding is photographed and described, you can take the report to another contractor for bids, and it reads the same either way.
Book the inspection now and keep the booking confirmation in the file. The daily penalty in the statute attaches to repairs left undone after a report and a 30-day notice, not to the booking date, and Code Enforcement would far rather see an owner moving than one waiting for a letter. If the inspection turns up an immediate threat, that balcony or stair is closed the same afternoon and reported to the City within 15 days; everything else goes on the 120-day permit clock.
For a condominium project the association is responsible for the inspection under SB 326 and, under most CC&Rs, for the repair of the structural framing and waterproofing it maintains, with exclusive-use balconies split as the governing documents say. The inspection must be done by a licensed structural or civil engineer or an architect; on the Beverly Hills condo stacks we take that report, price the repairs per finding, phase them so residents keep their access, and document them for the reserve study.
It is the inspection California requires of the exterior elevated elements on apartment buildings with three or more units: balconies, decks, porches, stairways, walkways and entry structures that stand more than six feet above grade and rely substantially on wood, with their railings and waterproofing. A qualified inspector identifies every element type, inspects at least 15 percent of each, and issues a signed and stamped report with photos within 45 days. In Beverly Hills the Building and Safety Division's Exterior Elevated Elements page restates the rule and asks for that report with the repair permit. The first inspection was due January 1, 2026 and it repeats every six years.
Send the address and the report if the building has one; if it does not, say so and we arrange the inspection. We'll call back with a scope and a date. Calling is still the fastest way: 310-928-6211.
Every finding on the stamped report priced, permitted and repaired by one Kaminskiy crew on Wilshire. No report yet? Our sister company performs the inspection.
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