Cracks off the window corners after a dry summer, knob holes, the ceiling a frozen pipe soaked, anchor holes by the room: patched, textured and primed. Priced in writing on the call.
BBBAccredited BusinessKaminskiy Care and Repair patches, finishes and texture matches drywall in Dallas homes: the crack angling off a window corner in a Lake Highlands ranch after a summer without rain, the knob hole behind a Preston Hollow bedroom door, the ceiling under the upstairs bath in an M Streets Tudor, the tape that let go at the ceiling line when the attic pipe froze, the anchor holes down an Oak Cliff rental wall at the turnover. New board where the old is broken or soft, taped seams, three coats sanded flat, the texture matched and primer. Water waits for the plumber and a dry 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.
Dallas is built on the Blackland Prairie, and that black clay moves more than almost any soil in the country: wet and swollen in May, shrunk and cracked by September. A slab house rides it, the drywall shows it at the door and window corners, and a sprinkler on one side of the house and none on the other makes it worse. We tape the crack with paper, feather it wide, match the orange peel or the smooth finish, and say plainly when the pattern means the foundation needs a look before the wall does.
AFTERBEFORE
Hole & Crack Repair
Water Damage Repair
Ceiling Repair
Texture Matching
Big Patches & Full Sheets
Nail & Anchor Holes
Corner Bead & Cracks
Primed & Ready for PaintRanch, Tudor or two-story, our Dallas technicians see all of these every week. Hold your hand over the damage on the call and tell us hand, poster or sheet, dry or wet; the price is written down before anyone drives over.
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 Dallas drywall repair.
North Texas clay swells with the spring rain and shrinks through a dry summer, and a slab foundation lifts and settles with it. The drywall is the first thing to show it: a diagonal crack off a door or window corner, a seam opening at the ceiling line, a door that rubs by August. We tape and feather those so they stay closed. Watering the foundation evenly helps; a crack that widens every year, a stair-step crack in the brick outside or doors that no longer latch is a foundation question, and we send you to a foundation company before we patch it a second time.
The 1920s to 1940s houses of Lakewood, Swiss Avenue and Junius Heights often carry plaster, which is patched with a bonding agent and a setting compound keyed into the lath, not with a drywall patch. The 1950s to 1970s ranches of Lake Highlands, Preston Hollow and North Dallas carry the first drywall, usually orange peel, with ceilings sprayed before 1980 that get tested by a licensed lab before anyone sands them. The 1980s and later streets north of LBJ run orange peel and knockdown, and the remodels run smooth. Each is matched on a test board against your wall before the repair is textured.
Dallas keeps its water heaters and much of its plumbing in the attic, which is why February 2021 brought ceilings down across the city when the pipes froze and thawed. The ordinary water stories are the bath over the kitchen in a two-story and a slab leak under a 1960s ranch. The plumber fixes the source, the board dries and reads dry on the meter, then we cut out the soft or stained section and replace it. A small dry spot of discoloration we cut out; dark growth beyond that is a licensed mold remediation company's job first, and we say so on the call.
Dallas has a lot of rental turnover, and the move-out wall is a menu item of its own: up to fifteen nail, screw and anchor holes in a room, anchors pulled, every hole filled flush, textured and primed for the turnover paint. Knob holes, a dented corner bead and the crack above the slider are priced by size on the same call, and most rooms are finished in one visit so the painter can follow.
Tudors and craftsman houses from the 1920s through the 1940s with plaster walls, and 1950s ranches in Lake Highlands with the first drywall. Plaster cracks along the lath and goes hollow; the ranches carry seventy years of patches, sprayed ceilings from before 1980 that a licensed lab tests before anyone disturbs them, and a slab that moves with the clay. Plaster patched as plaster, drywall as drywall, the pre-1978 paint handled lead-safe under the EPA RRP rule.
Brick ranches and two-stories from the 1960s through the 2000s, orange peel on half-inch board, with the water heater and the supply lines in the attic. The damage is the attic leak and the freeze-burst ceiling, the bath over the kitchen, truss lift at the upstairs ceiling line in a dry summer, and the diagonal crack off a window corner on the side of the house the sprinklers miss. Matched texture, primed, ready for the color.
Older frame and brick houses on pier-and-beam and slab, plaster in the 1920s streets and drywall in everything since, and a rental stock that turns over. Pier-and-beam houses crack where a pier has settled, slab houses where the clay has moved; the move-out wall with its anchor holes and dented corners is weekly work. Patched, textured, primed, and the turnover paint goes on after us.
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.
The City of Dallas lists the work that needs no permit in Chapter 52 of the city code, and nonstructural interior remodeling of a single family home that adds no floor area and changes no exterior door or window is on it; a drywall patch, a replaced sheet or a ceiling repair in an existing wall is well inside that. A new opening, a removed wall or any framing change is a permit job, and in a conservation or historic district the exterior has rules of its own, so we say so before anyone opens a wall.
Most Texas home policies cover sudden and accidental water damage, a burst pipe included, and generally not a gradual leak or seepage, per the Texas Department of Insurance; floods need a separate policy. Water damage that was hidden usually has to be reported within days of first seeing it. Photograph the ceiling and the source that day, keep the plumber's invoice, make the temporary repair and keep the receipt, and hold the permanent repair until the adjuster has looked. We write the drywall scope on its own line, and we never touch the plumbing.
In the stacked condos of Uptown, Turtle Creek and Oak Lawn the leak upstairs and the ceiling downstairs belong to different people. The Texas Uniform Condominium Act, Property Code Chapter 82, puts the common elements on the association and the unit on its owner, makes whoever caused the damage liable for its prompt repair, and makes the association's policy primary; the declaration can change the details, so read it. We repair the ceiling on your side after the source is fixed and write the scope separately. The wall between the house and an attached garage is fire separation under the residential code, half-inch board on the garage side, five-eighths Type X under a room above, and a full-sheet repair there goes back with the same board.
Reviewed by Sergei Kaminskiy, founder, November 7, 2026.
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Call 469-871-8048Usually within days. The price is in writing on the call, in under ten minutes, and most patches are finished in one visit; a full sheet or a ceiling may need a short second visit for the last coat, booked before we leave.
One diagonal crack that opens in a dry summer and closes with the fall rain is clay movement showing in the drywall, and taped with paper and feathered wide it stays closed. A crack that grows every year, a stair-step crack in the brick outside or doors that stop latching is a foundation question first, and we tell you that instead of taking your money for a second patch.
Yes. The ranches north of Northwest Highway carry a fine, tight orange peel that is sprayed lighter than the 1990s tracts, and we test the mix and the pressure on a scrap board against your wall before the repair is textured. The patch the last owner left shows because it was never textured; ours will not.
After the plumber has fixed the pipe and the ceiling reads dry on the meter. Then the sagging or stained section comes out, the joists are checked, new board goes up, taped, three coats, textured and primed. A ceiling that is still wet is priced on the call after a look, not from the menu.
Yes, by the room. Up to fifteen nail, screw and anchor holes in a room is one menu item: anchors pulled, holes filled flush, textured and primed for the turnover paint. Knob holes, dented corners and the crack above the slider are priced by size on the same call.
By size, water, finish and height. Smaller than your hand, poster-sized or a whole sheet; dry or soaked; orange peel, knockdown, smooth or plaster; eight feet or a two-story entry. Say which on the call and the price is in writing before anything is scheduled.
We repair the drywall on your side once the source is fixed and the board is dry. Who pays is a question for the declaration and the association's insurance, with Property Code Chapter 82 as the default, and we write the scope as its own line so the adjusters can read it.
All of Dallas, Lakewood, the M Streets, Lake Highlands, Preston Hollow, Oak Cliff, University Park and Highland Park, plus Richardson, Plano, Garland, Irving, Carrollton and Mesquite. Call 469-871-8048 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: 469-871-8048.
Priced in writing before we start, matched to the wall, warranted in writing.
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