Paint Cannot Hide Bad Walls
A lot of Central Connecticut homes are older homes, and older homes have plaster that cracks with the seasons, corners that split, and the occasional hole from moving day. Painting over damage just makes it shiny. Fixing it first is the only way the finish looks right.
We patch and tape drywall, repair cracked plaster, skim coat rough areas, and sand everything flush so repairs disappear. Then we prime and paint to match, and you stop noticing the wall ever had a problem. That is the point.
Every repair project is backed by our workmanship guarantee and covered by full general liability and workers compensation insurance. We will not leave your project until you are satisfied.
Drywall repair in Central CT, and why the same crack keeps coming back
Almost every call for drywall repair in Central CT is really one of four problems, and they need four different answers. Getting that wrong is why so many patches reappear a season later.
Seam cracks
Straight cracks that follow a joint are tape failure. The old tape has let go and the answer is to cut it out, re-tape, and feather wide enough that the repair disappears under a roller. Filling the crack with compound and painting over it is a repair with a shelf life of about one heating season.
Stress cracks
Cracks running diagonally from a door or window corner are the house moving. Connecticut houses go through a full freeze and thaw every year, and framing moves with it. These need the crack opened, reinforced, and filled with a compound that can handle a little movement, otherwise it just reopens along the same line.
Plaster losing its keys
Plaster over wood lath holds on by squeezing through the gaps and forming keys behind the lath. When those break, the plaster goes hollow and starts to bulge. You can hear it by tapping. Wall crack repair contractors who skim over a hollow section are decorating a problem, not fixing it. Plaster repair services in Connecticut worth hiring will either re-anchor the field or cut back to sound material and rebuild it.
Water damage
Stained, soft, or crumbling material means water, and water has a source. We find it and make sure it is dealt with before we close anything up, because patching a wet wall traps the problem inside it. Ceilings are their own version of this and have a page of their own.
All of it is finished to match the surrounding texture and primed ready for paint, so the repair does not flash through the topcoat. In most cases this happens as the first stage of an interior painting project rather than as a standalone visit.