The ceiling in a Wilshire tower under the neighbor above, the student rental turned over by the room, the plaster crack in a Little Holmby house and the ordinary knob hole, patched and matched. Priced in writing on the call.
BBBAccredited BusinessKaminskiy Care and Repair repairs walls and ceilings in Westwood, where three kinds of building meet at one intersection: the condominium towers along Wilshire with a bathroom stacked over every bedroom for twenty floors, the duplexes and fourplexes toward the campus that turn over every June, and the 1920s to 1950s houses of Little Holmby, Westwood Gardens and Comstock with lath and plaster behind the paint. The ceiling ring from the unit above, the anchor holes in every room of a student apartment, the straight crack across a plaster dining room, the knob hole, the nail pops after a tremor: each is repaired in its own material, finished to match and primed. Water waits for the source to be fixed. 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.
Westwood walls turn over faster than almost anywhere on the Westside: a fourplex near campus changes tenants every summer, a Wilshire condo changes owners every few years, and the houses north of the boulevard change hands with a remodel each time. We patch the rental by the room and invoice by the room, repair the tower ceiling after the building fixes the leak upstairs, and patch the plaster in the flats as plaster. The office on Wilshire is ten minutes east.
AFTERBEFORE
Hole & Crack Repair
Water Damage Repair
Ceiling Repair
Texture Matching
Big Patches & Full Sheets
Nail & Anchor Holes
Corner Bead & Cracks
Primed & Ready for PaintTower, rental or house, our technicians see all three in Westwood every week. Say which building you are in and size the biggest hole against your hand; the price is in writing on the call before anyone drives over from Wilshire.
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 Westwood drywall repair.
The towers along Wilshire move as a building and show it at the corner beads and the ceiling joints, and the earthquake cracked the tape at the ceiling line in nearly every unit built before it. The houses of the flats are 1920s to 1950s plaster that cracks along the lath and goes hollow at the corners, with a remodeled kitchen in smooth drywall meeting the old plaster at a seam. The rentals toward campus crack where tenants crack them: the knob behind the door, the anchors in the shelf wall, the corner in the hall. We fix each in its own material and say which is cosmetic and which, rarely, wants an engineer.
Little Holmby, Westwood Gardens and Comstock 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. The duplexes, fourplexes and condos from the 1950s through the 1980s carry orange peel on half-inch board and a sprayed ceiling from before 1980 that is tested by a licensed lab before anyone scrapes it. The remodels and the newer towers run smooth, which gets the wide feather and the raking-light check before primer.
In a Wilshire tower the leak is almost always above you: a shower pan, a supply line, a washer, a failed caulk joint, showing as a ring on your ceiling weeks later. The building fixes the source, or the owner upstairs does; we wait for the meter to say the ceiling is dry, then the stained section comes out and new board goes in, taped, finished, matched to the ceiling and primed. If the ceiling is sagging, or there is dark growth wider than a dinner plate, a licensed mold remediation company goes in before we do, and we say so from the photo.
A fourplex near the campus turns over in June and the walls carry the year: anchors from the shelves, nail holes from the posters, a knob hole behind the bedroom door, a dented corner in the hall, a crack above the slider. Fifteen or fewer nail, screw and anchor holes in a room are one menu line; the anchors come out, the holes are filled flush, the orange peel is sprayed back and the wall is primed. The invoice lists each room, and most units are ready for the painter after a single visit.
Large houses from the 1920s to the 2010s: plaster under a fine skim in the older estates, smooth walls and tall ceilings in the remodels and the new builds, coved ceilings that crack at the line with every tremor, and roof water from the January storms on a high ceiling. Plaster patched as plaster, smooth finished smooth, ceilings over eight feet priced after a look.
1920s to 1950s Spanish, Traditional and ranch houses with lath and plaster walls, the first drywall in the 1950s ranches under a sprayed ceiling, and a remodeled kitchen in each where smooth drywall meets old plaster at a seam that opens every summer. Plaster cracks and hollows repaired with the plaster method; the seam taped and finished so the two eras read as one wall; older ceilings tested before anyone touches them.
Rentals that turn over every June with anchor holes by the room, and condominium towers with a bathroom stacked over every bedroom and the ceiling stain from the unit above. Orange peel on the 1950s to 1980s board, smooth in the newer towers. The CC&Rs decide what crosses the wall; we repair your side, match the finish and leave it primed for the turnover paint.
The office on Wilshire in Beverly Hills is ten minutes east; the Los Angeles drywall repair page explains the LADBS permit rule, the water-damage claim and the three generations of Los Angeles walls.
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.
Westwood is in the City of Los Angeles, whose building code exempts painting, papering and similar work from a permit; a drywall or plaster patch, a replaced sheet in an existing wall or a ceiling repair is that kind of finish work, and LADBS asks for a permit beyond it to alter or repair a building. A new opening, a removed wall or any framing is the permit kind, and in a condo tower the building's own rules add to it, so we say which on the call.
In a Wilshire condo the leak upstairs and the ceiling downstairs belong to different owners, 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. The state insurance department lists sudden and accidental water damage among the perils generally covered and seepage, slow leaks and neglect among those generally not, so photograph the ceiling the day the ring appears and tell the manager in writing. We repair your side after the source is fixed and the board reads dry, with the scope on its own line for the board and the adjusters.
Most rentals in buildings from before late 1978 fall under the city's rent stabilization ordinance, and a turnover there ends with a deposit statement that has to separate ordinary wear from damage. That call is the landlord's and the law's, not ours; what we do is patch room by room and list each room on the invoice so the statement can quote it. In the houses of the flats, the wall and ceiling between the house and the attached garage are fire separation under the California Residential Code, half-inch gypsum on the garage side and five-eighths Type X under a living space, and a full-sheet repair there goes back with the same board.
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Call 310-928-6211Usually within days; the office on Wilshire is ten minutes east. The price is in writing on the call in under ten minutes, and most patches are finished in one visit; a plaster repair or a full sheet may need a short second visit for the finish coat.
Tell the manager in writing and photograph the ceiling today. Once the source upstairs is fixed and the ceiling reads dry on the meter we cut out the stained section, replace the board, tape, finish, match and prime. 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 the board and the adjusters can read it.
Yes, and usually in one visit. A room with up to fifteen nail, screw and anchor holes is one menu line: the anchors come out, each hole is filled flush, the orange peel goes back over it and the wall is primed for the painter. Bigger damage, the knob hole or the dented corner, is sized on the same call, and the invoice lists each room so the deposit letter can quote it.
Yes, and as plaster: the broken keys are cleaned out, a bonding agent goes on, a setting compound is keyed into the lath and the surface is floated to the sand or smooth skim around it. Screwing a drywall patch into plaster is how the last repair failed. Where a remodeled kitchen meets the old plaster at a seam, the seam is taped and finished so the two walls read as one.
Yes, with the feather carried twice as wide, an extra coat and a check under a raking light before primer, because the afternoon light through a west window shows every ridge. That is the standard for every smooth-wall repair we leave, and the reason the last patch shows and ours will not.
The biggest hole against your hand, up to a whole sheet; the number of rooms; water or no water; plaster or drywall and which finish; and the ceiling height. With those five on the call the written price is back in under ten minutes.
Not for a patch, a replaced sheet in an existing wall or a ceiling repair: the city's building code exempts painting, papering and similar work, and this is that work. A new opening, a removed wall or framing is a different job and we say so first; a condo tower's own rules are checked with the manager.
All of Westwood: Holmby Hills, Westwood Hills, Little Holmby, Westwood Gardens, Comstock, the campus-side rentals and the Wilshire corridor, plus Bel Air, Brentwood, Century City, Beverly Hills and Sawtelle. 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.
