Plaster in the flats, smooth walls in Trousdale, the condo ceiling under the unit upstairs and the ordinary knob hole, patched and finished by technicians based on Wilshire itself. Priced in writing on the call.
BBBAccredited BusinessKaminskiy Care and Repair repairs walls and ceilings in Beverly Hills from an office on Wilshire Boulevard, a few minutes from any of them: the crack along the lath in a 1920s Spanish north of Santa Monica, the hollow plaster corner in a duplex on the Roxbury side, the ceiling ring in a Wilshire corridor condo under a neighbor's bathroom, the smooth wall in a Trousdale post-and-beam that shows every careless edge, the knob hole, the nail pops, the anchor holes after a lease. Plaster is patched as plaster and drywall as drywall, each finished to the wall around it and primed. Water waits for the source to be fixed and the board to read dry. The price is in writing on the call, and most patches are finished in one visit. Since 2023 the crew has made 65 repair visits to 33 Beverly Hills homes.
Eight repairs, one crew, priced in writing before we start.
Beverly Hills has three kinds of wall in three parts of town: plaster under a sand or smooth skim in the 1920s and 1930s houses of the flats, drywall with a sprayed ceiling in the mid-century homes of Trousdale and the canyons, and the smooth or orange-peel board of the Wilshire condos and the apartments south of the boulevard. We carry the bonding agent for the plaster, the hopper for the orange peel and the wide knives for the smooth walls, and we are based on Wilshire, so the knob hole on Monday is usually looked at that week.
AFTERBEFORE
Hole & Crack Repair
Water Damage Repair
Ceiling Repair
Texture Matching
Big Patches & Full Sheets
Nail & Anchor Holes
Corner Bead & Cracks
Primed & Ready for PaintFrom an office on Wilshire the drive is minutes, so a crack, a hole or a stained ceiling in Beverly Hills is usually looked at the same week. Tell us the year of the house if you know it and size the damage against your hand; the price is in writing before we come.
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 Beverly Hills drywall repair.
By era. The 1920s and 1930s plaster of the flats cracks along the lath, breaks its keys and goes hollow at the corners, and ninety years of patches in three materials show through. The mid-century homes of Trousdale and the canyons sit on cut pads and fill, and the earthquake left its diagonal off the window corners and its cracked tape at the ceiling line in most of them; a hillside house also settles toward the fill. The condos along Wilshire move as a building and crack at the corner bead and the ceiling joints. Each is a different repair and we say which you have on the first look.
North of Santa Monica and on the Roxbury and Doheny side the houses are lath and plaster under a sand finish or a smooth skim, repaired with a bonding agent and a setting compound keyed into the lath and finished to the skim around it, never a drywall patch screwed into plaster. Trousdale and the canyon homes carry smooth walls or a sprayed ceiling from the 1950s and 1960s; the remodels run smooth or skip trowel; the condos a fine orange peel. Smooth gets the wide feather and the raking-light check; orange peel is sprayed on a test board first.
Along Wilshire and south of it the water comes from above: the shower pan, the supply line or the washer in the unit upstairs, showing as a ring on your ceiling weeks later. In the flats it is the clay sewer line or the 1930s galvanized pipe inside a plaster wall; in the hills a flat roof in the January rain. The plumber, the roofer or the building fixes the source, the wall dries and meters dry, then we replace the stained section. A dark patch bigger than a dinner plate is a licensed mold remediation company's job before ours.
Smaller than your hand: a backed patch. Bigger than your hand and smaller than a laptop: a paper patch. Poster-sized: a framed backer and a new section. Soaked, crushed or anything larger: a full sheet screwed to the studs with every seam taped. In plaster the same sizes are repaired with the plaster method. Three coats, sanding, the finish matched and primer are the same for all of them, and the filler-and-paint patch from the hardware store skips every step, which is why it shows.
1920s and 1930s Spanish, Tudor and Colonial houses with lath and plaster walls and coved plaster ceilings, remodeled in drywall room by room since. Plaster cracks along the lath and goes hollow at the corners; the remodeled kitchen is smooth drywall meeting old plaster at a seam that opens every summer. Plaster patched as plaster, the seam taped and finished so the two eras read as one wall.
Smaller 1920s to 1940s houses and duplexes, and the apartment and condo buildings of the 1950s through the 1980s with shared walls, orange-peel board and the neighbor's bathroom overhead. The work here is the ceiling stain from above, the turnover wall with anchor holes by the room, the dented corner bead in a hallway and the plaster crack in the front house. Each era matched to its own finish and primed.
Mid-century post-and-beam houses and the new builds that replaced some of them: smooth walls, tall ceilings over the view rooms priced after a look, sprayed 1950s and 1960s ceilings tested by a licensed lab before anyone disturbs them, and the diagonal crack off the window corner on the fill side of a cut pad. The finish standard is the one the house sets, and the repair meets it.
Our office on Wilshire covers the whole basin; the Los Angeles drywall repair page has the city-wide picture, the City of Los Angeles 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.
Beverly Hills keeps its own list of work exempt from a building permit and builds to the California codes with local amendments. The state residential code needs no application for ordinary repairs to a structure and exempts painting, papering and similar finish work, which is where a drywall or plaster patch, a replaced sheet in an existing wall and a ceiling repair fall; it draws the line at cutting a wall or a structural member, and a new opening, a removed wall or any framing is a permit job. The city's list is strict and we check it before a bigger job rather than guess.
The state insurance department lists sudden and accidental water damage among the perils a homeowner policy generally covers, and seepage, slow leaks, wear and tear and neglect among those it generally does not; the adjuster asks when it began. Date-stamp a photo of the stain and the source the day you see them, keep the plumber's invoice, and we write the drywall scope on its own line beside it. The source is fixed and the board dries and meters dry before new board goes in; we never touch the plumbing.
In the condo buildings along Wilshire and south of it, the leak upstairs and the ceiling downstairs belong to different people. California Civil Code 4775 puts the common area on the association and the separate interest on the owner unless the CC&Rs say otherwise, and the association's policy and the two owners' policies sort out the rest. Tell the manager in writing the day the ring appears; we repair the ceiling on your side after the source is fixed and the board reads dry, and write the scope as its own line so the board and the adjusters can read it.
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Call 310-928-6211Our office is on Wilshire, so usually within days and often the same week. The price is in writing on the call in under ten minutes; most patches are finished in one visit, and a plaster repair may need a short second visit for the finish coat.
Almost certainly: knock on it and it sounds dense, and the cracks run straight rather than wander. Plaster is repaired with a bonding agent and a setting compound keyed into the lath and finished to the sand or smooth skim around it. Our technicians repair plaster and drywall both, and say which you have on the first look.
We do, on your side, once the source upstairs is fixed and the board reads dry on the meter: the stained section comes out, the joists are checked, new board goes up, taped, finished, matched and primed. Who pays is the CC&Rs' and the policies' business, with Civil Code 4775 as the default; our scope is written as its own line so they can read it.
Both. A sand finish is matched by mixing the aggregate into the final coat and floating it to the pattern on a test board first; a smooth wall gets the feather carried twice as wide, an extra coat and a check under a raking light before primer. The old patch on your wall shows because it got neither; ours will not.
Yes. One hole, one crack, one blistered corner is a welcome call and a short visit from Wilshire, and a room of nail and anchor holes after a lease is a menu item of its own. The job that seems too small to call about is exactly the one we are set up for.
By size against your hand, poster-sized or a whole sheet; by whether water was involved; by plaster or drywall and the finish on it; and by the ceiling height. Tell us those four things on the call and the written price comes back in under ten minutes, before anything is scheduled.
Not for a patch, a replaced sheet in an existing wall or a ceiling repair: the state code the city builds on treats ordinary repairs and finish work as needing no application, and the city's own exempt list is checked before any bigger job. A new opening, a removed wall or framing is a different job and we say so first.
All of it: the flats north and south of Wilshire, Trousdale Estates, Coldwater and Benedict Canyons, plus Bel Air, Holmby Hills, West Hollywood, Westwood, Century City and the Hollywood 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.
