Drywall Repair in Hollywood Park, TX for Older Sprayed Walls and Ceilings

When a Hollywood Park House Still Carries Its First Wall Finish

Hollywood Park sits north of the loop on wooded lots, with live oaks standing over most of the roofs and ranch houses underneath them. That is what San Antonio Expert Drywall looks at first. Drywall repair in Hollywood Park, TX is mostly a question of matching what went on your walls when the house was built.

These are mostly houses built in the sixties and seventies, which puts them at a useful point for drywall. By then the sprayer had taken over, so texture on the walls and popcorn on the ceilings were simply what a builder did rather than something an owner added later. That's the sprayed texture era, and this town sits squarely inside it.

Where the Original Texture Usually Survives in Your House

Which helps us, and it helps your price. A finish that has never been chased through three remodels is one thing to match rather than four, and the sample we need is usually already in your house. The original spray survives in the spots nobody ever bothers to redo:

• Inside a linen closet or a coat closet
• The wall above the kitchen cabinets, up near the ceiling
• Behind a door that has stood open against the same patch of wall for years
• The garage wall, if the garage was boarded out with the house
• High on a hallway wall, above anywhere a piece of furniture has reached

We read the finish off one of those rather than off a guess about the era, so your repair gets the same spray the rest of the room has. Usually we've found it before we've finished walking the house.

When Years of Paint Have Changed Your Wall Texture

A wall that has been repainted every few years no longer has the texture it started with. Paint fills the fine stuff first, so sharp edges soften and low points fill in, and a heavy roller leaves a grain of its own on top.

So on an older wall we match what the paint has done to it as well as the spray underneath. Orange peel, the light spatter these walls were sprayed with, mixed the way it went on originally will read slightly too crisp against everything around it. It's a small adjustment, and it's most of the difference between a repair you notice and one you don't.

One more thing a ranch house does: it runs long, and so do its hallways. A hall wall can carry from one end of the house to the other with a light at each end of it, which leaves a repair halfway along nothing to sit behind. Those are the ones we test twice before we commit.

When a Popcorn Ceiling Can Stay

Plenty of ceilings here are still the original popcorn, and plenty of those are perfectly sound. Say yours is marked in one corner after a wet week and the rest of it is fine. That's a ceiling repair rather than a ceiling removal, and it's the shorter of the two jobs by a good way.

Big oaks over a roof are part of why a ceiling is where you first notice water. When one does have to come down, it's a longer day than most people expect and it gets priced as its own job. What we do at your house is look up, tell you which of the two you have, and write the price down while we're standing under it.