Smooth and sand-finish walls in the 1950s and 1960s houses, the monsoon stain on a flat roof, the older ceiling tested before anyone sands it, and the condo leak from above, patched, matched and primed. Priced on the call.
BBBAccredited BusinessKaminskiy Care and Repair patches and finishes walls and ceilings in Palm Springs homes, where the wall is most often a 1950s or 1960s smooth or sand-finish skim on drywall furred over block, the roof is flat, and the ceiling may have been sprayed before 1980. The ring on a Racquet Club Estates ceiling after an August storm, the hairline cracks across a Twin Palms wall where sixty years of joint compound finally dried out, the condo ceiling in Sunrise Park under the unit above, the wet patch beneath a rooftop air conditioner in Deepwell, the knob hole, the anchor holes after a winter rental. Each is repaired in the material it was built in, finished to match in raking light and primed. Water waits for the roof or the pipe to be fixed and the board to dry. The price is in writing on the call and most patches are finished in one visit.
Eight repairs, one crew, priced in writing before we start.
Palm Springs is a mid-century town, and its walls are a mid-century problem: smooth skims that show every edge of a careless patch at four in the afternoon, sand finishes that have to be matched by grit, post-and-beam ceilings that are wood and not drywall at all, sprayed ceilings from before 1980 that a licensed lab tests before anyone touches them, and flat roofs that the monsoon finds every August. We bring the wider feather, the extra coat and the raking light, and we tell you on the first look which wall you have.
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 Racquet Club Estates house and a Sunrise Park condo are different repairs and our technicians do both, from our office on Highway 111 in Palm Desert. Say what the wall is made of if you know and the size against your hand, and the price is in writing before anyone drives up.
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 Palm Springs drywall repair.
A Palm Springs house built in 1958 has spent sixty-odd summers above a hundred and ten, and the joint compound of that era simply dries out: the tape lines open across a smooth wall or a ceiling on their own, with no settling to blame. The block behind a furred wall grows by day and shrinks at night until the drywall cracks from the corner of a window opening. Then the monsoon arrives and finds the flat roof, or the rooftop air conditioner's drain clogs in July, and the water comes through a ceiling that has not seen rain from inside in years.
Racquet Club Estates, Twin Palms, Vista Las Palmas and Deepwell carry a smooth skim or a sand finish; the 1970s streets of Sunrise Park and Demuth Park carry orange peel; the Movie Colony and Old Las Palmas remodels run smooth; and many post-and-beam houses have tongue-and-groove wood ceilings that are not ours to patch at all. A smooth wall gets the wider feather, an extra coat and a check in raking light before primer, and a sand finish is matched by grit and roller on a scrap board first.
Most Palm Springs ceilings were finished before 1980, and a sprayed ceiling or the joint compound of that era may carry asbestos; paint from before 1978 may carry lead. A licensed lab samples the ceiling before anyone sands, scrapes or cuts, abatement, if it is needed, is a licensed contractor's job before our patch, and painted surfaces are handled lead-safe. It is one extra step, built into the plan on the call, and it is not unusual anywhere in this town.
On a single-story house the water is the roof in a monsoon, the scupper that clogged, or the air conditioner on the roof with a condensate drain that stopped draining. In the stacked condos of Sunrise Park and the south end it is the unit above, and the CC&Rs decide who pays. The roofer, the plumber or the air conditioning company fixes the source, the ceiling dries and reads dry on the meter, then we replace the stained section. Dark growth beyond a dinner plate is a licensed mold remediation company's job first, and we say so.
Houses from the 1930s through the 1960s with smooth and sand-finish walls over block, flat roofs, rooftop air conditioners, sprayed ceilings from before 1980 that get tested by a licensed lab before anyone disturbs them, and post-and-beam wood ceilings that are not drywall. The finish standard is the one the architect set, so the repair gets the wider feather and the raking-light check before primer.
The 1960s and 1970s tracts and the condos among them: orange peel on half-inch board, truss lift along the ceilings in the summer heat, water from the roof rather than a bath, forty years of patches to match, and year-round families and winter rentals side by side. Corners rounded by decades of furniture, rebuilt with new bead; move-out rooms by the room.
Stacked and attached condos from the 1960s on with a neighbor above and a seasonal owner below, hillside custom homes on the slope lots of the Mesa and Araby with diagonal cracks from the window corners and tall ceilings priced after a look. The unit above is the CC&Rs' business; the ceiling on your side is ours after the source is fixed and the board reads dry.
The Highway 111 office works the whole valley, and the Palm Desert drywall repair page has the Coachella Valley picture, the Palm Desert permit rule and the seasonal-house insurance notes 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.
Palm Springs adopts the 2025 California codes with its own amendments, and the city's amendments to the list of work that needs no permit are about fences and retaining walls, not interior work: painting, papering and similar finish work stay on the list as the state wrote it, and a drywall patch, a replaced sheet or a ceiling repair in an existing wall is that kind of work. A new opening, a removed wall or a framing change is a permit, and in a designated historic home an exterior change can be more than that, so we say so before anyone opens a wall. If you are unsure about a repair, the Building Safety counter will tell you.
A flat roof that failed in one August storm is a sudden loss and usually covered; a scupper that has seeped at the same corner for three summers usually is not, and the state insurance department's guide lists seepage, wear and neglect among the common exclusions, and a house vacant for sixty days or more. Photograph the ceiling and the roof the day you find the stain, keep the roofer's invoice, and we write the drywall scope as its own line. The roofer first, the drying second, the drywall third.
In a house built before 1978 the paint may carry lead and a ceiling finished before 1980 may carry asbestos: a licensed lab tests the ceiling before anyone sands or scrapes it, abatement if needed is a licensed contractor's job before our patch, and painted surfaces are handled lead-safe. In the stacked condos, water from the unit above and a shared wall are settled by the CC&Rs and the association's insurance, with California Civil Code 4775 as the default; we repair your side and write the scope separately.
Can't find your answer? Call 760-284-6993 and ask us anything.
Call 760-284-6993Usually within days from our office on Highway 111 in Palm Desert. The price is in writing on the call; most patches are finished in one visit, and a smooth-wall repair may need a short second visit for the final coat and the raking-light check. In summer we start early.
Yes, and it takes more than a patch on a textured wall: a wider feather, an extra coat and a check in raking light before primer, because the afternoon sun through a wall of glass shows every edge. That is the standard our technicians finish to in Racquet Club Estates and Twin Palms.
We patch it after it is tested. A ceiling sprayed before 1980 may carry asbestos, so a licensed lab samples it first; if abatement is needed a licensed contractor does that before our repair. We never scrape or sand an untested older ceiling, in any house in this town.
No. A roofer fixes the roof, the scupper or the flashing, the ceiling dries and reads dry on the meter, and then we cut out the stained section and replace it, taped, three coats, matched and primed. Patched before the roof is fixed, the stain is back with the next storm.
A tongue-and-groove post-and-beam ceiling is carpentry, not drywall, and we tell you that on the first look rather than patch the wrong material. The drywall walls under it, and any drywall ceiling in the house, are ours.
We do, once the source upstairs is fixed and your ceiling reads dry. Who pays is a CC&Rs and insurance question with California Civil Code 4775 as the default, and we write the scope as its own line so the association and the adjusters can read it.
Size, water, finish and height: hand-sized, poster-sized or a whole sheet; dry or water-damaged; smooth, sand or orange peel; eight feet or a tall living room. Say which on the call and the price is in writing in under ten minutes.
All of Palm Springs, Racquet Club Estates, Twin Palms, Vista Las Palmas, Deepwell, the Movie Colony, Sunrise Park, Demuth Park and the Mesa, plus Cathedral City, Rancho Mirage and Desert Hot Springs. Call 760-284-6993 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: 760-284-6993.
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.
