Drywall Repair in Buffalo, NY
Wall repair is one of the most common calls we get around Buffalo, and the reasons are pretty local. So much of the city's housing stock is a century or more old, built with lath and plaster that cracks as the frame settles and shifts through decades of freeze and thaw. Add a winter ice dam that let water track down an interior wall, the flex of a house heaving in the cold, and the plain dings of everyday life, and every home eventually needs patching.
We repair both plaster and modern drywall — cutting bad sections out clean, tying new material into old, and skim-coating so the fix disappears instead of standing out. Where a plaster wall is sound but crazed, we'll bridge and re-coat rather than tear it out. We prime the patch, add paint if you want it, and vacuum down the dust on the way out so you aren't left breathing a chalky haze for days.
What this covers
- Plaster crack and settling repair
- Lath-and-plaster patching and skim coating
- Nail pop and screw pop correction
- Doorknob and impact hole patching
- Ice-dam and water-stain ceiling repair
- Texture matching and blending
- Corner bead and outside edge repair
- Priming and paint touch-up
Neighbors often ask
The same crack keeps coming back over my doorway — why?
In an old Buffalo home that's usually the house working, not bad patching. Freeze-thaw cycles heave and settle the frame, and plaster reopens along its weakest lines. We can repair it so it stays hidden longer, and if the movement is severe we'll flag whether it's worth a structural look.
Do you fix real plaster, or only drywall?
Both. A lot of these homes are original lath and plaster, and we patch and skim-coat it rather than gut a wall that's otherwise solid. Where a section's too far gone we'll tie in drywall and blend it so the transition doesn't show.
There's a brown stain on my bedroom ceiling after the snow melted — drywall or roof?
Likely an ice dam, and it's both, in order. Melt backed up under the shingles and found its way in, so the ice-dam issue has to be addressed first. Once it's dry, we cut out the damaged material, replace it, and blend the finish so there's no trace.
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