Drywall repair and texture matching that disappears
A patch that is flat and a patch you cannot find are two different jobs. We do a lot of the second kind, and it is priced as its own line rather than buried in a paint number.
Drywall Repair & Texture Matching
Most people find us for paint and then discover the wall needs work first. It comes up often enough that it is a service in its own right rather than a footnote on an interior quote.
The test for this work is simple and unforgiving. Stand at the end of the wall, put a light across it at a shallow angle, and see whether you can find where the repair was. Anything you can find under that light is not finished.
Step 01
Matching what is already on the wall
Texture is the part that goes wrong. A flat, well feathered patch under an orange peel wall is still an obvious repair, because the eye reads the change in texture long before it reads a change in level.
So the texture gets matched to what is there. Orange peel and knockdown at the right nozzle and the right knock, and hand textures read off the existing wall and worked back by hand. On an older house that often means matching something nobody makes any more.
- Orange peel matched for spray pattern and coverage
- Knockdown matched for timing as well as texture
- Hand and skip trowel textures worked back by hand
- Sample patch first where the match is difficult
Step 02
The repairs that come up most
Water damage is the one worth taking seriously. Stained board that has been wet gets cut out rather than sealed and painted, because a stain blocker over soft board buys about a year.
The rest is ordinary and constant: settlement cracks that open every winter, nail pops down a whole ceiling, corner bead that took a knock from a piece of furniture, doorknob holes, and the holes left by a TV mount that moved.
- Water damaged board cut out and replaced
- Settlement and stress cracks taped, not just filled
- Nail pops, screw pops and popped corner bead
- Doorknob holes, anchor holes and mount plates
Step 03
Primed and ready, not just filled
Fresh compound and painted wall drink paint at completely different rates, so a repair that was invisible when it was bare will flash through the finish coat if it was not primed first. Every repair gets spot-primed before anything else happens to it.
If we are painting the room as well, the repair is part of the same written scope. If somebody else is painting it, we hand it over primed and tell them what is under there.
- Every repair spot-primed before the finish coat
- Whole-wall priming where a match needs it
- Handed over paint-ready if another crew is finishing
- Dust contained, floors covered, cleaned up daily
Before you sign
What your written scope covers
Same document on every job. A very clear scope of work ensures you know exactly what you are getting, and there is more on how we put one together over on our standard.
Get it in writing- Each repair located and described, not a lump sum
- The texture being matched, named
- Whether board is being replaced or filled
- Priming, and whether a full wall needs it
- What we cannot see yet, and how that gets handled
Often booked together
While we are already at the house
Interior Painting
Walls, ceilings, trim, doors and stairwells. Every piece of millwork prepped to PCA Level 3 or 4, every wall quoted at the level it can genuinely reach, and all of it written down before we start.
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A fraction of the cost of new cabinets. Doors and drawers come off and get sprayed flat, boxes are masked in place, and every face gets the three-pass millwork standard.
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Built on preparation, integrity and long-term protection. Our exterior process goes far beyond adding a fresh coat of color. It is about preserving the structure of your home and delivering a finish that truly lasts.
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