Eichler walls, sprayed 1960s ceilings, the condo ceiling after the unit above and the move-out wall, patched, textured and primed by technicians based downtown. Priced in writing on the call.
BBBAccredited BusinessKaminskiy Care and Repair patches and finishes drywall in Sunnyvale homes from an office on Murphy Avenue, downtown: the stain on a Fairbrae Eichler wall below a scupper that clogged, the sprayed 1960s ceiling in Cherry Chase or Birdland that is tested before anyone sands it, the knob hole in a Ponderosa Park hallway, the ring under the hall bath in a Raynor two-story, the ceiling in a Lakewood or San Miguel condo after the washer upstairs overflowed, the wall the plumber opened in the Heritage District to reach a valve, and the forty anchor holes after a tech lease ends. New board where the old is broken or soft, taped seams, three coats sanded flat, the texture matched, primer. Water waits for the source 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.
Sunnyvale was built fast in the 1950s and 1960s, and the walls came with it: orange peel on half-inch board and a sprayed ceiling in the ranch tracts, smooth drywall between the beams in the Eichlers, and sixty years of patches on both. The north side added condos and townhomes in the 1970s and 1980s, and the whole town turns over tenants every summer. Our office is downtown, so the knob hole, the stained ceiling and the move-out wall are usually looked at the same week, and the price is written down before anyone starts.
AFTERBEFORE
Hole & Crack Repair
Water Damage Repair
Ceiling Repair
Texture Matching
Big Patches & Full Sheets
Nail & Anchor Holes
Corner Bead & Cracks
Primed & Ready for PaintOur office is a few minutes from any of these. Hold your hand over the damage and say whether it is smaller than your hand, poster-sized or a whole sheet; the price is in writing on the call before anyone drives out.
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 Sunnyvale drywall repair.
Heat and age. Sunnyvale sits in the dry, sunny end of the Bay, and the roof trusses in the 1960s and 1970s houses arch as the attic bakes in August, lifting the ceiling tape off the upstairs walls on schedule every year. The 1950s tracts carry their first drywall and sixty years of patches, nail pops along the studs and corner bead rounded by furniture. A hard shake on the Hayward fault opens hairlines at the door corners across the whole town. The crack is taped, not caulked, so it stays closed; a crack that widens every year gets an honest word rather than a second patch.
Fairbrae, Sunnyvale West and the other Eichler streets have no attic and no drywall ceiling: the roof deck is the ceiling, the drywall is on the walls only and finished smooth between the beams, and a flat roof that ponds or a scupper that clogs shows as a stain on the wall below. Cherry Chase, Birdland, Las Palmas, Ponderosa Park and Raynor carry orange peel on the walls and a sprayed ceiling that is sampled by a licensed lab before anyone sands it if it dates from before 1980. The Heritage District houses near Murphy Avenue are older and some are plaster. Each is matched on a test board first.
A flat Eichler roof ponds behind a clogged scupper and the water runs down the inside of the wall; a 1960s ranch loses a roof flashing in a winter storm and the hallway ceiling shows a ring; a two-story's hall bath drips through the kitchen ceiling; a north-side condo takes the neighbor's washer. Each is fixed first by its own trade, and we come after the meter says the board is dry: the stained section out, new board in, texture and primer. Where there is dark growth bigger than a dinner plate, a licensed mold remediation company goes in before we do, and we say that on the first call.
A hole you can cover with your hand gets a backed patch. One you cannot, up to laptop size, gets a paper patch. Poster size gets a framed backer and a new section. Water-soaked, crushed or bigger gets a full sheet on the studs with every seam taped. Then every one of them gets three coats, a sanding, the matched texture and primer, and that is the difference between a repair you cannot find and the spackle patch you can.
Post-and-beam Eichlers with drywall on the walls only, finished smooth and stained from a ponded flat roof or a clogged scupper, and the ranch tracts around them from the 1950s and 1960s with orange peel, sprayed ceilings from before 1980 that get tested by a licensed lab before anyone disturbs them, and sixty years of patches to match.
Older houses with plaster and wood trim near downtown, patched as plaster, and 1960s and 1970s tracts with the hall bath over the kitchen, truss lift along the upstairs ceiling in August, and the knob hole in the hallway with no door stop. A pre-1978 painted surface is handled lead-safe by a certified firm.
Smaller lots, 1970s and 1980s condos and townhomes with shared walls and a neighbor above, knockdown and smooth to match, and rental turnovers every summer with anchor holes by the room. We repair your side of a shared ceiling, match the texture, leave it primed for the turnover paint, and write the scope the association can read.
Sunnyvale is the South Bay office of a crew that covers the whole region; the Bay Area drywall repair page puts the East Bay, the Peninsula and the South Bay side by side, with every city's permit desk and the water-damage paperwork explained.
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.
Sunnyvale publishes its own sheet of work that does not require a building permit, with painting and similar cosmetic work on it and a note that each code carries more exemptions, which is where the California Residential Code's ordinary-repairs clause comes in: no application for an ordinary repair to a structure, never the cutting away of a wall or a structural beam. A drywall patch, a replaced sheet in an existing wall or a ceiling repair is that. A new opening, a removed wall or an Eichler beam is a permit, and we tell you which on the call.
The state insurance department's homeowner guide lists sudden and accidental water damage as typically covered and water damage from seepage or leaks as generally not, which makes the date of the leak the adjuster's first question. Photograph the stain and the source on the day you find them, hold on to the roofer's or plumber's invoice, and ask us for the drywall scope as its own line beside theirs. The leak is fixed, the board dries and the meter says so, then we replace it. We never do it in the other order.
Sunnyvale's single-family streets mostly have no association, so the rule that matters there is the garage: the wall and ceiling between the house and an attached garage are fire separation under the state code, and a full-sheet repair there goes back with the same half-inch or five-eighths Type X board. The north-side condos and townhomes do have associations, and there the leak above and the ceiling below belong to different owners; California Civil Code 4775 makes the association responsible for the common area and each owner for the unit unless the CC&Rs say otherwise. We repair your side and write the scope so the board can read it.
Can't find your answer? Call 408-916-4022 and ask us anything.
Call 408-916-4022Fast. Our office is on Murphy Avenue, downtown, so a knob hole, a crack or a stained ceiling anywhere in Sunnyvale is usually looked at within days and often the same week. You get the price in writing on the call, and most patches are done in one visit; a full sheet may take a short second visit for the last coat.
Yes. The drywall is on the walls only, finished smooth between the beams, and it takes water from the flat roof above and the radiant slab below. Once the roofer or the plumber has fixed the source and the wall reads dry, we cut cleanly to the beam line, hang new board and finish it smooth so it reads as original. We do not touch the roof, the beams or the slab.
Only after a licensed lab has sampled it. Ceilings sprayed before 1980 may carry asbestos, so the lab goes first, a licensed abatement contractor second if the lab says so, and our patch third. An untested older ceiling is never scraped or sanded by us.
That is truss lift, and it runs on a schedule: the trusses in the attic arch as they dry in the August heat, pull the ceiling off the wall, and tear the tape at the corner through any caulk you put there. The fix lets the corner move, a floating corner or a crown line over the joint, and we tell you which your ceiling needs on the call.
Your side is ours: once the leak is fixed and the board reads dry we replace the ceiling section, match the texture and prime it. Who pays is for the CC&Rs and the policies, with California Civil Code 4775 as the default, and the drywall scope we write on its own line is what the board and the adjusters read.
Tell us four things on the call: the size against your hand (smaller, bigger, poster or sheet), whether water was involved, the finish (orange peel, knockdown or Eichler smooth) and the ceiling height. The written price comes back within ten minutes, before anything is scheduled.
Yes, and August is our busiest month for it. A room with up to fifteen nail, screw and anchor holes is one line on the menu: anchors out, every hole filled flush, texture matched, primer on, ready for the turnover painter. Extra rooms are added on the same call.
All of Sunnyvale from Murphy Avenue, Cherry Chase, Fairbrae, Birdland, Las Palmas, the Heritage District, Ponderosa Park, Raynor, Lakewood and San Miguel, plus Mountain View, Cupertino, Santa Clara, Los Altos and San Jose. Call 408-916-4022 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: 408-916-4022.
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.
