Smooth and skip-trowel walls finished so the repair cannot be found, ceilings over eight feet priced after a look, the hillside crack off the picture window and the stain after the January rain. Priced in writing before we come up.
BBBAccredited BusinessKaminskiy Care and Repair repairs walls and ceilings in Bel Air homes where the finish standard is the hardest part of the job: a smooth wall in a Bellagio Road house that shows every edge under the morning light, a fourteen-foot great room ceiling with a ring from a roof flashing, the diagonal off the corner of a picture window in a Roscomare view house on fill, the skip trowel in a Stone Canyon remodel, the gallery wall in a guest house after the art came down, the plaster in a 1930s estate that still carries its original skim. Each is repaired in the material it was built in, finished wider and flatter than a tract patch, checked in raking light and primed. Water waits for the roof or the plumbing to be fixed. The price is in writing on the call.
Eight repairs, one crew, priced in writing before we start.
Bel Air walls are mostly smooth, and smooth forgives nothing: a patch finished the way a textured tract wall is finished reads from across the room at nine in the morning. Our technicians feather a Bel Air repair twice as wide, add a coat, check it under a raking light before primer, and on a tall ceiling bring the scaffold rather than reach. Plaster in the older estates is patched as plaster, and a designer or house manager gets the same written scope the owner does.
AFTERBEFORE
Hole & Crack Repair
Water Damage Repair
Ceiling Repair
Texture Matching
Big Patches & Full Sheets
Nail & Anchor Holes
Corner Bead & Cracks
Primed & Ready for PaintA smooth wall, a tall ceiling and an old plaster skim are three different standards and our technicians meet all three. Say which you have on the call, size the damage against your hand, and the written price comes before anyone drives up the canyon.
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 Bel Air drywall repair.
Much of Bel Air sits on cut-and-fill pads above Stone Canyon, Beverly Glen and the Sepulveda side, and a house settles a little toward the fill over the years. The wall shows it as a diagonal crack off a window or door corner on the slope side, a door that rubs, a seam opening at a tall ceiling. The earthquake left the same pattern in 1994. We tape, fill, feather and finish the crack so it stays closed, and when a crack steps across the wall, keeps widening or comes with a door that no longer latches we send you to an engineer rather than sell you a second patch.
The estates of the gate streets and the 1930s houses along Bellagio and Chalon carry plaster under a fine skim; the remodels and the new builds across Bel Air run smooth or a light skip trowel; a few 1960s houses on the ridge still carry a sprayed ceiling. A smooth wall is finished with the feather carried twice as wide, one more coat than a textured wall needs, and a check under a raking light before primer. Skip trowel is matched by hand on a test board first. Plaster gets a bonding agent and a setting compound keyed into the lath, never a drywall patch screwed in.
Bel Air water damage rarely comes from a neighbor; it comes from a flat roof or a flashing in the January storms, from a shower pan over a lower room, or from the hillside itself, when a retaining wall or a slope drain sends water into the back wall of a lower level. The roofer, the plumber or the drainage contractor fixes the source, the wall dries and meters dry, then we replace the stained section. A soft, dark patch bigger than a dinner plate goes to a licensed mold remediation company before our repair, and we say so on the call.
Great rooms, two-story entries and twelve-foot bedrooms are the norm here, and a ceiling over eight feet changes the job: scaffold or a tall platform, a wider feather on a smooth finish, longer dry times between coats, and a ceiling light that shows every ridge. It is priced on the call after a look, not from the menu, and the price is still written down before anything starts. A sprayed ceiling from before 1980 is tested by a licensed lab before anyone disturbs it.
1920s to 1950s estates with plaster walls under a fine skim, coved plaster ceilings, and seventy years of remodels in drywall of three later decades. The plaster cracks along the lath and goes hollow at the corners, the coved ceiling line cracks with every tremor, and the staff wing carries a sprayed 1960s ceiling that gets tested before anyone touches it. Plaster patched as plaster, each era finished to its own skim.
View houses from the 1960s to the 2010s on cut-and-fill pads: smooth walls, two-story glass and the diagonal crack off the window corner on the fill side, tall ceilings priced after a look, and roof water from the January storms showing as a ring on a high ceiling. Gated communities on the crest need no approval for interior drywall; the repair leaves primed for the house color.
Canyon houses from the 1940s to the 1970s and the remodels on top of them: lower levels cut into the hill where the back wall takes water from the slope, skip-trowel and smooth finishes in the remodels, guest houses and studios with gallery walls, and the garage under the living room with its fire-separation ceiling. Dry the wall first, replace the board, match the finish, prime.
The same technicians cover the basin from the office on Wilshire; the Los Angeles drywall repair page has the city-wide picture, the LADBS permit rule and the water-damage paperwork in plain words.
Hold your hand over the damage and tell us: smaller than your hand, bigger than your hand, poster-sized, or a whole sheet. We price it on the call, in writing, in under ten minutes.
Water damage is repaired after the source is fixed. If the stain is still wet we tell you who fixes the leak, and we schedule the drywall for when it is dry.
Backing where it needs it, new board cut to fit, every seam taped, three coats of compound sanded smooth, your texture matched, then primer.
Dust contained and the room left clean. Most patches are finished in one visit; a full sheet may need a short second visit for the final coat, scheduled before we leave.
Bel Air is in the City of Los Angeles, whose building code exempts painting, papering and similar work from a permit; a drywall or plaster patch, a replaced sheet in an existing wall or a ceiling repair is that kind of finish work, and LADBS asks for a permit beyond it to alter or repair a building. A new opening, a removed wall or any framing is the permit kind, and on a hillside lot anything structural has rules of its own, so we say which on the call.
The state insurance department's homeowner guide puts sudden and accidental water damage among the perils generally covered and seepage, slow leaks, wear and tear and neglect among those generally not, so the adjuster asks when the roof started leaking. Photograph the ceiling and the source the day the ring appears, keep the roofer's or plumber's invoice, and we write the drywall scope as its own line beside theirs. The source is fixed and the board dries and meters dry before new drywall goes in.
A garage under or beside the living space is fire separation under the California Residential Code: half-inch gypsum on the garage side of the wall, five-eighths Type X on a garage ceiling under a habitable room, and a full-sheet repair there goes back with the same board. In a wing built before 1978 the paint may carry lead and a ceiling sprayed before 1980 may carry asbestos; the ceiling is sampled by a licensed lab before anyone scrapes or sands it, abatement, if needed, is a licensed contractor's job before our patch, and painted surfaces are handled lead-safe by a certified firm.
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Call 310-928-6211Usually within days; the office on Wilshire is fifteen minutes from the East Gate. The price is in writing on the call. Most patches are finished in one visit, and a smooth-wall repair or a tall ceiling may take a short second visit for the final coat and the raking-light check.
Yes, after a look. A ceiling over eight feet is priced on the call once we have seen the height, the access and the finish, because the scaffold, the wider feather and the dry times change the job. The price is still written before anything starts, and the room is protected and left clean.
Yes, if it is finished for a smooth wall rather than a textured one: the feather carried twice as wide, an extra coat, and a check under a raking light before primer, because the morning light through a Bel Air window shows every ridge. That is the standard our technicians finish to, and the reason the last patch shows and ours will not.
A little, probably, and it is usually cosmetic: a house on a cut-and-fill pad settles toward the fill, and the earthquake left the same diagonal in thousands of hillside houses. We tape, fill, feather and finish it so it stays closed. If it steps across the wall, keeps widening year on year or the door beside it stops latching, we tell you to have an engineer look rather than patch it twice.
The roofer. The flashing or the flat roof is fixed, the ceiling dries and reads dry on the meter, then we cut out the stained section, replace the board, tape, finish, match the ceiling and prime. Patched before the roof is fixed, the ring is back in the next storm.
The size against your hand, poster-sized or a whole sheet; whether water or plaster is involved; smooth, skip trowel or skim to match; and the ceiling height. Say those on the call and the price is in writing in under ten minutes; a ceiling over eight feet is priced after a look.
Yes, and often. The written scope goes to whoever runs the house, the finish is matched to the designer's sample or the painter's spec, the room is protected before anyone opens a wall, and the repair is left primed for the painter or the house color. One visit for most patches; the schedule is set before we leave.
All of Bel Air: East Gate and West Gate, Bellagio and Chalon, Bel Air Crest, Roscomare and Linda Flora, Stone Canyon and Beverly Glen, plus Holmby Hills, Westwood, Brentwood and Beverly Hills. Call 310-928-6211 to confirm your address.
Describe the wall or ceiling, or text a photo, and we call back with a written price and a time. Calling is still faster: 310-928-6211.
Priced in writing before we start, matched to the wall, warranted in writing.
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.
