Settling cracks in a house under five years old, the knob hole in the bonus room, the ceiling under the upstairs bath and the wall the plumber opened, patched, textured and primed. Priced on the call.
BBBAccredited BusinessKaminskiy Care and Repair patches and finishes drywall in Apex homes from the Raleigh office, and most of Apex is young: the hairline cracks at the window corners of a Bella Casa or Sweetwater house still drying out in its first summers, the knockdown ceiling in Haddon Hall that cracked along the truss line in January, the knob hole in a Scotts Mill bonus room, the ring on the family room ceiling under the second-floor bath, the garage wall opened to reach a frozen hose bib line. New board where the old is broken or soft, taped seams, three coats sanded flat, the builder's orange peel or knockdown matched on a test board, primer. Water waits for the plumber and the meter. 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.
An Apex house built since the 1990s moves the most in its first few years, as the framing dries and the red clay under it settles, and the drywall shows it at the corners of the windows and along the ceiling of the two-story foyer. The builder sprayed orange peel on the walls and knockdown on the ceilings, and a patch that is not textured to match is the patch you see from the stairs. We match it, feather it wide, prime it and leave the HOA color for your roller or our painting crew.
AFTERBEFORE
Hole & Crack Repair
Water Damage Repair
Ceiling Repair
Texture Matching
Big Patches & Full Sheets
Nail & Anchor Holes
Corner Bead & Cracks
Primed & Ready for PaintEvery one of these is routine for our technicians, and the drive from the Raleigh office is twenty minutes down US 1. Say how big the damage is against your hand and whether the wall is orange peel or knockdown, and the price is in writing before anyone leaves.
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 Apex drywall repair.
Framing lumber dries for two or three summers after the house is closed in, the clay under the footings settles with the first wet winters, and the sheets crack where they were cut: the window and door corners, the long seam over the foyer, the corner where a knee wall meets the ceiling. Those are taped, filled and feathered wide so they stay closed; caulk alone opens again by the next dry August. A crack still growing after year five, or a door that rubs harder every year, is a question for the lot, and we say so instead of patching twice.
Nearly every Apex tract from the 1990s on carries a medium orange peel on the walls and a knockdown or a heavier splatter on the ceilings, with smooth in the remodeled kitchens and a level-five skim in a few custom homes on the west side. Orange peel is about the mix, the air pressure and the distance from the wall; knockdown is the same spray and then the right number of minutes before the knife. Our technicians test both on a scrap board against your wall before the repair is textured, and feather past the edge so there is none.
The baths and the laundry are upstairs and the living is below, so the water comes down: a shower pan, a toilet seal, a washer hose, and the ceiling under it shows a ring weeks later. In an ice storm the line to the hose bib or an attic bath freezes and the ceiling sags by morning. The plumber fixes the source, the ceiling dries and reads dry on the meter, then we cut out the stained section and replace it. A sagging ceiling, or dark growth beyond a dinner plate, goes to a licensed mold remediation company first, and we say so on the call.
A hole smaller than your hand gets a backed patch; bigger than your hand and up to a sheet of paper, a paper patch over a plug; poster-sized, a framed backer and a new section; a soaked or crushed area, or anything bigger, a full sheet screwed to the studs with every seam taped. Three coats, a sanding, the texture and primer finish all four the same way. The ceiling in the foyer is over eight feet and is priced on the call after a look, not from the menu.
The oldest houses in town near Salem Street, some with plaster and some with the first drywall over it, and around them the first 1990s subdivisions with orange peel walls and thirty years of patches. Downtown the painted surface may be older than 1978 and is handled lead-safe by a certified firm; in Haddon Hall and Abbington the work is truss-lift cracks, the hall bath over the kitchen and the move-out wall.
The newest streets, with ten-foot ceilings, two-story foyers, smooth and light-texture finishes and houses still settling into the clay. New-home cracks at the window corners and the foyer seam in the first years, second-floor laundries over the family room, tall ceilings priced after a look, and association schemes that stay untouched while the repair leaves primed for the matching color.
1990s and 2000s family streets with orange peel walls, knockdown ceilings, bonus rooms over the garage and attached garages on the fire-separation wall. Knob holes in the bonus room, nail pops down the stairwell, the ceiling under the upstairs bath, and the garage wall opened to reach a frozen line, which goes back with the same board the code asks for.
Our Apex crew works out of the Raleigh office on Centerview Drive, and the Raleigh drywall repair page carries the county-wide picture: the state permit rule, the water-damage paperwork and the plaster and sprayed-ceiling steps for older houses, 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.
Apex publishes the clearest handout in the county, and it puts the repair of non-load-bearing components and non-structural repairs on the list of work that needs no permit, with structural repair, floor joists, headers, piers and footings, on the list that needs one no matter the cost. A drywall patch, a replaced sheet in an existing wall or a ceiling repair is the first list. A new opening, a removed wall or a bonus room finished over the garage is the second, and we send you to the Building Inspections desk on Mason Street before that kind of job, not after.
Water damage is fixed in order: the plumber stops the leak, the ceiling dries and reads dry on the meter, then we replace the drywall. The state insurance department's homeowner guide lists sudden discharge from plumbing and a frozen pipe among the covered perils on standard forms and says a policy is not a maintenance policy, so the washer hose that let go is usually a claim and the shower pan that wept for a year usually is not. Photograph the stain and the source the day you find it, keep the receipts, and let the adjuster see it before anyone makes extensive repairs; our scope is written on its own line.
Bella Casa, Sweetwater, Scotts Mill, Haddon Hall and most Apex subdivisions are association communities with an exterior scheme; interior drywall needs no form, and the repair leaves primed for the approved color. The wall and ceiling between the house and the attached garage are fire separation under the North Carolina Residential Code: half-inch board on the garage side, five-eighths Type X on a garage ceiling under a bonus room. A full-sheet repair there goes back with the same board and taped joints, which is what the code asks.
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Call 919-585-1114Usually within days; the Raleigh office is twenty minutes up US 1. The price is in writing on the call, and most patches are finished in one visit. A full sheet or a foyer ceiling may need a short second visit for the final coat.
Almost always no. A new house dries and settles for its first few summers and the drywall cracks where the sheets were cut, at the window corners and the foyer seam. Taped and feathered wide they stay closed. If a crack keeps widening after year five we tell you to have the lot looked at rather than patch it again.
Yes. Knockdown is sprayed like orange peel and then knocked flat with a wide knife after the right number of minutes, and the width of the knife and the wait decide the look. Our technicians match it on a scrap board held against your ceiling before they touch the repair.
After the plumber has fixed the leak and the ceiling reads dry on the meter, yes: the stained section comes out, the joists are checked, new board goes up, taped, three coats, knockdown matched and primed. A ceiling that is still wet or sagging is priced on the call after a look.
No. One hole in the bonus room, one crack, one nail pop is exactly the visit we are set up for, and a townhome move-out wall with a room of anchor holes is a menu item of its own.
By size first: smaller than your hand, poster-sized or a whole sheet. Then by water, by the texture to match and by the ceiling height, because the two-story foyer is a different day than a bedroom wall. Tell us those on the call and the price is in writing in under ten minutes.
Not a patch, a replaced sheet or a ceiling repair in an existing wall: the town's own handout lists non-structural repairs as work that needs no permit. Finishing the bonus room, removing a wall or cutting a new opening is a permit job, and we say so first.
All of Apex, downtown, Haddon Hall, Abbington, Green Level, Bella Casa, Sweetwater, Beaver Creek, Scotts Mill and Salem Village, plus Cary, Holly Springs, Morrisville and New Hill. Call 919-585-1114 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: 919-585-1114.
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.
