Drywall & Painting in Los Angeles
Patches, crack repairs and fresh paint to keep your walls and ceilings looking sharp.
Older houses on the Westside and around Highland Park have lath and plaster behind the paint, not drywall. Plaster cracks along the lath, and a patch mixed for drywall opens again by the next dry spell. We match what is already on the wall. Drywall repair runs $120–$350. Interior painting is $300–$800, exterior $400–$1,500, and the exterior number moves with how much stucco prep the walls need first.
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Test the ceiling first
Popcorn texture in a house built before 1980 gets a lab test before a scraper touches it. That texture often holds asbestos, and dry scraping sends it into the air of a room where someone sleeps. We take a sample and wait for the result. Comes back clean, removal runs $350–$1,200: we tent the room, wet the texture, pull it and skim the ceiling flat. Comes back positive, we stop. Asbestos removal belongs to a licensed abatement crew, and we tell you that instead of quoting it.
Salt air on stucco
Exterior paint in Santa Monica, Venice and the South Bay gives out sooner than the same paint in Sherman Oaks. The marine layer works under the film at trim joints and fascia, so the seaward wall goes chalky while the back of the house still looks new. On stucco we open the hairline cracks, fill them and let the patch cure before primer. Rushing that cure is why a fresh coat maps every old crack by January.
Worth your own weekend
Repainting a bedroom is a fine weekend. Tape, cut in by hand, second coat if the first one goes thin. Patching is where homeowners lose the money they saved. If the same crack opens a second time after a proper patch, the framing is moving and a structural pro should look at it before you buy more paint. Short of that, the usual culprit is sealer: a patch sanded flat but primed with the wrong one flashes through the topcoat, and you see every one of them at four in the afternoon when the sun rakes across the wall.
What customers say
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“Thank you Sergio for coming on such short notice and making yourself available! Sergio was able to fix a door hanging incorrectly, plumbing, bath spout, electrical and wall-mounted a TV in minutes! Very knowledgeable and professional. Thanks again!”
“Sergio went beyond the call to fix a hole in the wall. He found the cause, fixed the hole, but also replaced the gutter, sealed all the cracks in the area and repainted everything to match. He also did some highly skilled drywall work (the ceiling has curved corners). I'm impressed and would definitely use him again.”
“Sergio was really good and honest. He knew exactly what he was doing when replacing my garbage disposal and fixing one of my kitchen cabinets. I would recommend him to other people who need a good handyman.”