Cracks, holes and stains patched flat across Columbus
Cracks, nail pops, doorknob holes and water-stained patches cut out, taped, feathered and painted to match.
Chapter 01
Central Ohio houses move a little every year. Freeze-thaw winters and clay soil shift the framing, and the first places that show it are the seam above a doorway, the corner of a window opening and the long taped joint on a ceiling. Brick and frame homes from the 1920s through the 1950s add plaster walls with hairline map cracks of their own.
Nail pops are the other regular one: a small bump or a ring in the paint where a screw or nail backed out as the stud dried. Then come the everyday holes, a doorknob through the wall behind a door with no stop, or the pair of anchors left when a TV mount came down.
A brown stain on a ceiling is a leak question before it is a drywall question. Find and stop the water first, then the patch goes on and stays gone.
Interior wall with a freshly patched and repainted section beside a newly hung door in white trim
A hole bigger than a fist gets squared off, and a strip of backing is screwed behind it so the new board has something solid to sit on. Small holes take a mesh patch. Either way the new piece goes in flush with the old surface, never proud of it, because a patch that stands up shows in every raking light.
Joints are taped with mesh for quick work or paper where a seam has to hold, then covered in three thin coats of compound, each one wider than the last and dried before the next. Thin coats are the whole trick. One heavy coat shrinks, cracks and needs so much sanding that the ridges come back.
Sanding is checked with a light held low across the wall, which throws every ridge into shadow. Then the patch is primed, because bare compound drinks paint and shows as a dull square.
Chapter 03
A repaired wall only looks repaired if the paint does not match. Sheen has to agree with the old finish, texture has to be stippled or rolled to blend, and the new coat is taken corner to corner, so there is no patch-shaped halo of fresh paint on the wall.
Drywall patching and ceiling fixes sit under General Home Repairs on the job list, and interior painting sits right beside them on the same ticket. Send both in one message and the repair and the repaint are estimated together.
One-year workmanship warranty on all work. Call or text 380-283-9950.
A patch is easy to price when the slip is filled in. Text the photos at 380-283-9950 and the estimate is free. If the wall is only one line on a longer list, put the whole list on the contact page and it gets written up together.
Work order: drywall
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Closed, flat and painted