Damp stains by the water, cracked plaster in the old cottages, the condo ceiling under the neighbor's bath and the ordinary knob hole, patched and matched. Priced in writing on the call.
BBBAccredited BusinessKaminskiy Care and Repair repairs walls and ceilings in La Jolla homes, where the wall might be 1920s plaster in a Village cottage, 1970s drywall in a UTC condo or a smooth skim in a remodeled house up the hill. The damp stain spreading from a window frame on the ocean side, the ceiling ring in a condo that started two floors up, the crack along the lath in a Bird Rock cottage, the knob hole and the nail pops, the anchor holes after a lease: each is repaired in the material it was built in, finished to match and primed. Water waits for the source to be fixed and the wall to dry. The written price comes on the call, and one visit covers most patches. Since 2019 our technicians have completed 335 repair visits on 165 La Jolla homes.
Eight repairs, one crew, priced in writing before we start.
Salt air and fog work on La Jolla walls from the outside in: the corner bead rusts and blisters the paint, the drywall behind an ocean-facing window wicks damp until it stains, and a stacked condo passes every leak down the line. The older houses by the water and in the Village are often lath and plaster, which is patched as plaster, not drywall. We bring both trades and match smooth, skip trowel or orange peel so the repair disappears.
AFTERBEFORE
Hole & Crack Repair
Water Damage Repair
Ceiling Repair
Texture Matching
Big Patches & Full Sheets
Nail & Anchor Holes
Corner Bead & Cracks
Primed & Ready for PaintPlaster and drywall are two trades and our technicians carry both. If you know what the wall is made of, say so, add the size against your hand, and a written price reaches you before anyone drives down.
We answer in under three rings and get you priced and scheduled in minutes.
A clear, written quote with upfront pricing. You approve before work begins.
Kaminskiy-certified pros finish the job with a workmanship warranty.
Every drywall repair carries our one-year workmanship warranty, in writing, and is done by a Kaminskiy-certified, background checked technician.
By the water the steel corner bead under the drywall rusts, lifts the compound and blisters the paint in a line down the corner; the fix is new bead, vinyl or galvanized, finished and textured. Damp wicks into the drywall behind an ocean-facing window frame or at the base of a wall and shows as a soft, stained patch that paint will not hold on. The window or the stucco is sealed first, the wall dries, then the stained board comes out and new board goes in.
The cottages of the Village, Bird Rock and Windansea from the 1920s through the 1940s are often lath and plaster: a crack follows the lath, the plaster keys break and a section goes hollow, and a corner crumbles. Plaster is patched with a bonding agent and a setting compound, keyed into the lath, and finished to the surrounding skim or sand finish. A drywall patch screwed into plaster is the repair that fails. We tell you which wall you have on the first look.
University City, La Jolla Village and the Nobel Drive condos are stacked three and four high, and a shower pan or a supply line on the top floor shows up as a ceiling ring two floors below. Who pays is settled between the association and the CC&Rs; once the source is fixed and the board is dry on the meter we repair the ceiling on your side, with the drywall quoted on its own line. Dark growth beyond a dinner plate is a licensed mold remediation company's job first.
The remodeled and custom homes of the Muirlands, Hidden Valley and the Shores are mostly smooth or a light skip trowel, and a patch on a smooth wall shows at four in the afternoon unless the feather is wide, the coats are one more than usual and the finish is checked in raking light before primer. That is the standard our technicians finish to, and it is the difference between a patch and a repair.
Lath and plaster in the pre-war cottages, rusting corner bead and damp-stained drywall in the post-war houses, and smooth skims in the remodels. The salt air is the cause of most of it: seal the window or the stucco first, dry the wall, then patch plaster as plaster and drywall as drywall, finished to match and primed.
Custom and remodeled homes with smooth and skip-trowel walls, tall ceilings over the view rooms priced after a look, settling cracks from the window corners on slope lots, and the occasional 1960s sprayed ceiling that gets tested by a licensed lab before anyone disturbs it. The finish standard is high and the repair meets it.
The 1970s and 1980s condos and townhomes: orange peel on half-inch board, shared walls and ceilings, water from the unit above, and move-out walls with anchor holes by the room. The CC&Rs decide who pays for what crosses the wall; we repair your side, match the texture and leave it primed for the turnover paint.
The same technicians cover the county from the office on World Trade Drive; the San Diego drywall repair page has the county-wide picture, the City of San Diego 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.
La Jolla is part of the City of San Diego, where like-for-like maintenance repairs under a set cost need no permit and the state residential code counts finish work the same way, so a plaster or drywall patch, a replaced sheet or a ceiling repair in an existing wall is finish work. A new opening, a removed wall or a framing change is a permit job, and in La Jolla's coastal zone a bigger exterior change can be more than that, so we say so before anyone opens a wall.
In a stacked condo the leak upstairs and the ceiling downstairs belong to different people, and California Civil Code 4775 puts the common area on the association and the separate interest on the owner unless the CC&Rs say otherwise. Photograph the ceiling the day the ring appears, tell the association in writing, and the drywall is written up on its own line so the adjusters can read it. A sudden leak is usually covered; a slow one usually is not.
A pre-war cottage may carry lead in its paint and a ceiling sprayed before 1980 may carry asbestos. The painted surface in a home built before 1978 is handled lead-safe, and an older sprayed ceiling is sampled by a licensed lab before anyone scrapes or sands it; abatement, if it is needed, is a licensed contractor's job before our repair. Plaster itself is patched as plaster, and we say which wall you have on the first look.
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Call 858-330-5590Usually within days, from our office in Rancho Bernardo. The price is in writing on the call; most drywall patches are finished in one visit, and a plaster repair or a smooth-wall finish can take one more short visit for the final coat.
If the house is from before about 1950 and the wall sounds dense and solid when you knock, it is probably lath and plaster, and it matters: plaster is patched with a bonding primer and a setting compound locked to the lath, not a drywall patch screwed in. Our technicians repair both and tell you which you have on the first look.
Usually the steel corner bead under the compound rusting in the salt air and pushing the paint off. The fix is new vinyl or galvanized bead, finished, textured and primed, and the paint holds afterward.
The ceiling on your side is ours to repair once the leak is stopped and the board has dried. Who pays is a question for the CC&Rs and the insurers, with California Civil Code 4775 as the fallback, so the drywall is itemised on its own for the association and the adjusters.
Yes, with a wider feather, an extra coat and a check in raking light before primer, because the afternoon light off the water shows every edge. That is the standard for every smooth-wall repair we leave.
Size, water, the material and the finish decide it: hand-sized, poster-sized or a whole sheet; dry or water-damaged; drywall or plaster; orange peel, skip trowel or smooth; eight feet or a tall view room. Answer those on the call and the price is written up in ten minutes.
Yes. One knob hole, one crack, one blistered corner is a welcome call, and a room of nail and anchor holes after a lease is a menu item of its own.
All of La Jolla, Bird Rock, Windansea, the Shores, the Village, the Muirlands and Hidden Valley, plus University City, UTC, Pacific Beach, Del Mar, Carmel Valley and Clairemont. Call 858-330-5590 to confirm your address.
Tell us what the wall or ceiling looks like, or text us a photo. We'll call you back with a price and a time. Calling is still the fastest way: 858-330-5590.
Priced in writing before we start. Kaminskiy-certified technicians. A one-year workmanship warranty on every job.
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.
