Drywall & ceiling repair across the Diablo Valley
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Orinda has some of the oldest and most architecturally distinctive housing in the valley — 1930s and 40s Tudors and Spanish revivals in the village core, mid-century moderns tucked into the hills, and a lot of walls that are not actually drywall at all.
That matters. Opening a wall in Orinda and finding plaster over wood lath is routine, and patching it like drywall produces a repair that cracks out within a year.
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Describe the damage — photos help us give you a range straight away.
Sleepy Hollow and Glorietta carry a lot of pre-war housing where plaster, not drywall, is the base — and where the right repair is a keyed plaster patch or a full skim, not a drywall square. The hillside mid-century homes off Ivy Drive and Charles Hill bring the other Orinda problem: steep lots, seasonal soil movement and cracks that reopen. Newer Orinda Downs construction behaves like standard modern drywall.
Housing note: Expect plaster over lath in the older village neighbourhoods, and expect hillside movement everywhere else.
We check what is behind the paint before quoting. Plaster and drywall are different repairs and pretending otherwise wastes your money.
More on drywall & plaster repair →Orinda ceilings run from low plaster in older homes to open-beam mid-century. Both need care and neither is a fast job.
More on ceiling repair →Period Orinda finishes were applied by hand decades ago. Matching them is a craft job and we treat it as one.
More on texture matching →Need something not listed? We also handle water damage repair , popcorn ceiling removal , drywall installation in Orinda.
A push-pin tells you a lot — plaster is hard and will resist, drywall gives. If you are unsure, we check during the quote. It changes both the method and the price.
Yes, including the narrow ones. Access is worth mentioning when you request a quote so we bring the right vehicle and staging.
It depends far more on access, height and texture than on the size of the hole. A single small patch at standard ceiling height is the least expensive job we do; the same patch on a two-storey entry wall costs several times more because of staging and protection. We give written quotes before any work starts.
Yes — orange peel, knockdown, skip trowel, hand-troweled and Level 5 smooth. For unusual or hand-applied finishes we prepare a sample panel and get your sign-off before touching the visible wall. Where a blend genuinely will not disappear, we will tell you that re-texturing the whole wall is the better answer rather than leaving you with a patch you can see.
We finish, texture and prime every repair so it is ready for paint and the sheen matches. Final colour coats are usually best handled by your painter, who has your exact paint — but ask, because on small jobs we can often finish it out.
Joint compound has to dry between coats, so most repairs are one long day or two shorter visits. Anyone promising a finished, textured, invisible repair in ninety minutes is skipping a coat.
Send a photo and a short description — most quotes come back the same business day.