Settling cracks and slab-leak walls in the Conejo and Simi tracts, damp-stained board and rusted corner bead on the coast, knockdown and orange peel matched, primed. Priced in writing on the call.
BBBAccredited BusinessKaminskiy Care and Repair patches and finishes drywall across Ventura County, and the county is two climates with two sets of problems. In the Conejo and Simi valleys the 1960s to 1990s tracts of Thousand Oaks, Newbury Park, Simi Valley and Moorpark carry orange peel and knockdown, trusses that lift the ceiling tape in the dry heat, and the slab leaks of the pipe era that soak a wall from the bottom. Down the grade in Camarillo, Oxnard, Port Hueneme and Ventura the marine layer keeps the lower walls damp, the steel corner bead rusts and blisters the paint, and a stacked condo passes every leak down. Add the knob hole, the ring under an upstairs bath and the move-out wall everywhere. Broken or soft board comes out and new goes in, the seams get tape and three coats, the finish is matched and the association's color scheme is left alone under the primer. The price is written on the call; a patch is normally done the day we come.
Eight repairs, one crew, priced in writing before we start.
Which side of the Conejo Grade you live on decides what your walls do. Up top the summer heat dries the lumber and the attic, the planned communities carry knockdown and an association color scheme, and a copper slab line from the 1970s lets go under the kitchen. On the coast the fog sits on the houses until noon for half the year and the damage is damp, salt and rust rather than heat. We match the texture on a test board first, dry a wet wall before we touch it, and leave every repair primed for the HOA color or your own.
AFTERBEFORE
Hole & Crack Repair
Water Damage Repair
Ceiling Repair
Texture Matching
Big Patches & Full Sheets
Nail & Anchor Holes
Corner Bead & Cracks
Primed & Ready for PaintWhichever side of the grade you are on, a Kaminskiy-certified technician has seen your wall before. Measure the damage against your hand, text the photo, and the written price is back before a truck is dispatched.
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.
Heat in the valleys, damp on the coast, and the ground under both. The Conejo and Simi tracts sit on soils that swell with the winter rain and shrink by late summer, so the same crack over the same door opens every August; the attic bakes, the trusses bow upward and the ceiling tape pulls off the wall corners. The newer hillside villages above Thousand Oaks and Moorpark are cut-and-fill lots that settle toward the slope. On the coast the house barely moves; the wall fails from the damp instead. We tape and feather the cosmetic cracks and say plainly when a crack is really a drainage or soils question.
The 1960s and 1970s tracts carry a fine orange peel and sprayed ceilings that nobody sands until a licensed lab has tested a sample; the 1980s and 1990s planned communities a heavier orange peel or a knockdown; the 2000s villages and the remodels smooth or a light skip trowel that forgives nothing. Matching knockdown is spraying the right size of splatter, waiting the right number of minutes and knocking it down with the width of knife the original finisher used, and our technicians do it by eye on a test board before the wall.
A valley tract from the 1960s through the 1980s carries the supply lines of its decade under the slab, and when one lets go the wall is soaked from the bottom up before anyone sees a stain: a warm spot on the floor, a baseboard that swells, drywall that is soft behind it. The plumber locates the line and fixes or reroutes it; the wall is left to dry until the meter agrees; then the soft board is cut out and replaced. If the dark growth behind it has spread beyond a dinner plate, a licensed mold remediation company goes in ahead of us, which you hear on the call.
West of the grade the marine layer keeps the beach streets damp most mornings from spring into summer, and the lowest foot of an exterior wall, the board behind a window frame and every outside corner soak it up: a tide line of stain the paint lets go of, a soft spot, a steel corner bead rusting under the mud and lifting the paint in a seam. Whatever lets the water in, stucco, window or grade, is sealed first, the wall dries, and then the stained board is replaced along with the bead, in vinyl or galvanized this time, finished to match.
1960s to 1990s planned communities in association streets: orange peel and knockdown, trusses that lift the upstairs ceiling tape in August, the bath over the kitchen, 1970s copper under the slab, and HOA color schemes that stay untouched while the repair leaves primed. Sprayed ceilings from before 1980 are tested by a licensed lab before anyone disturbs them.
The hottest summers in the county, the driest attics and the most truss lift; 1970s and 1980s tracts with orange peel and the slab leaks of the era, and 1990s and 2000s hillside villages on cut-and-fill lots with knockdown, smooth entries over eight feet priced after a look, and settling cracks from the window corners on the slope side.
Beach houses and 1950s to 1970s tracts in the fog belt with damp-stained lower walls and rusting corner bead, stacked condos at the harbors where the unit above leaks through the ceiling, and newer planned communities with smooth walls. Seal and dry first, replace the board and the bead, match the finish, prime. The CC&Rs decide who pays for what crosses a shared wall.
The Ventura County crew works alongside the Los Angeles offices; the Los Angeles drywall repair page has the basin-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.
Each Ventura County city runs its own building counter and the county's Building and Safety handles the unincorporated land; the county says most construction needs a permit and exempts small projects and most finish work in a house, and every one of them builds to the California codes, under which patching and finishing a wall is finish work with no permit and an ordinary repair needs no application; Oxnard goes further and writes the drywall allowance down as fifty square feet outside a fire-rated wall. Cutting a new opening, removing a wall or changing framing is permit work at every counter, and we say which side of that line your job is on before it starts.
A burst slab line and a window that has wept for three winters are two different claims, and the state insurance department's guide draws the line for a standard policy: sudden and accidental water damage is a covered peril, water damage from seepage or leaks is not. The guide's advice is what we tell every caller: stop the leak at the source, photograph the damage, and hold the extensive permanent repairs until the adjuster has been through. Our estimate is a separate drywall line beside the plumber's; the pipe is theirs, and the new board goes in when the meter says the wall is dry.
Most of the Conejo and Simi planned communities and the harbor condos are association properties, and no association needs to approve an interior patch. When a leak crosses a shared wall or comes down from the unit above, Civil Code 4775 sets the starting point, common area to the association and separate interest to the owner, and the CC&Rs finish the argument; the drywall in your unit is ours, written up on its own page. In a single house the rule to know is the garage: the residential code treats the wall and ceiling to an attached garage as a fire separation, half-inch board on the garage face and five-eighths Type X under a room above, and that is what a full sheet there goes back as.
Can't find your answer? Call 805-774-1151 and ask us anything.
Call 805-774-1151Within days on either side of the grade, as a rule; the call itself produces the written price. A patch is normally finished the day we come, and a full sheet, or a coastal wall that is still drying, may bring us back once for the last coat.
Yes. The 1960s and 1970s tracts run a fine orange peel, the planned communities knockdown or a heavier orange peel, and the newest villages smooth. Before the wall gets any of them, the technician sprays the sample on scrap, compares it against your wall, and only then textures the repair and feathers the edge away.
Often a slab leak in a valley tract of the pipe era: a warm spot on the floor, a swollen baseboard, soft drywall behind it. The plumber finds and fixes the line, the wall dries and reads dry on the meter, then we replace the soft section. We never patch a wall that is still wet.
Salt air has reached the steel corner bead under the compound, and rust takes up more room than steel, so the paint is pushed off in a seam. We cut the bead out, set vinyl or galvanized bead in its place, finish and texture over it and prime, and that corner stops blistering.
Your ceiling is our repair, as soon as the upstairs source is fixed and the board meters dry. Paying for it is a CC&Rs question with Civil Code 4775 as the fallback, so the scope we write stands on its own for the association and the two adjusters.
Four things: how the damage measures against your hand, whether water caused it, which texture is on the wall, and whether the ceiling is a flat eight feet or a two-story entry. Give us those on the call and the price is written before we hang up.
Not for patching, finishing or a sheet replaced in a wall that stays put: every Ventura County city builds to the California codes, which treat that as finish work and ordinary repair, and the county's own page exempts most finish work in a house. New openings, removed walls and framing are permit jobs, and we name them before the work.
Ventura County, including Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, Newbury Park, Oak Park, Simi Valley, Moorpark, Camarillo, Oxnard, Port Hueneme and Ventura, plus Agoura Hills and Calabasas on the county line. Call 805-774-1151 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: 805-774-1151.
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.
