A brown ring that keeps spreading, a seam that opened after the last hot summer, drywall that sagged after the swamp cooler overflowed. We repair ceilings in Bakersfield homes. We replace the drywall that has to go and match the texture so it looks like nothing happened. Text 2-3 photos to (661) 706-3565 and get a quote in about 10 minutes.
This is usually the first thing a Bakersfield homeowner asks us, and you can answer most of it from the floor by looking at three things.
The drywall got wet and has already dried out. Nothing is coming down tonight. Get the leak fixed, then text us a photo, and we seal the stain, re-texture and paint in a single visit.
Water is sitting in the drywall right now. It will hold for a while, but every day it stays wet is more ceiling we have to cut out. Set a bucket under it, shut off the water source if you can, and text us the same day.
Soaked drywall gets heavy fast and the screws start to pull through. Clear the room of people and pets. Punch a small hole at the lowest point so the water drains into a bucket instead of spreading across the ceiling, and text us photos right away. Sagging ceilings go to the front of our Bakersfield schedule because they get worse by the hour.
Water damage ceiling repair is the ceiling drywall job where sequence matters. Here is ours.
We repair drywall, not roofs or plumbing. If the leak is live, we wait. A ceiling closed over a live leak is a ceiling you pay to open again.
Water travels along the top of the ceiling drywall and the stain is rarely where the leak is. We probe for the soft area.
Soft, sagging or crumbling ceiling drywall comes out to a clean line. Firm drywall with a stain stays and gets sealed.
New drywall screwed to the ceiling joists, taped, and smoothed with three coats of compound.
Stain-blocking primer first, or the ring bleeds through. Then the ceiling texture is matched and the section painted.
Most Bakersfield ceilings are knockdown or orange peel. Popcorn is still common in homes built before the mid-1980s in Oleander, Westchester and East Bakersfield, and smooth finishes show up in the newer Southwest tracts. Overhead drywall texture is unforgiving because light rakes across it and shows every difference.
Nearly every Bakersfield ceiling job comes with this question. Three things decide it.
Under about 4 square feet, and the drywall around it is firm, it gets a patch. If the drywall is soft all the way across a bay between two joists, that whole section comes out and new drywall goes in. A full-ceiling replacement only happens when most of the room is wet or sagging, which is uncommon.
Popcorn and heavy knockdown take a patch and a re-spray well. A smooth ceiling that has been patched more than once sometimes looks better skimmed flat as one surface and repainted.
A ceiling that has been patched twice in the same place gets a look at the cause before we patch it again.
Send photos and we tell you which of the three your Bakersfield ceiling needs, with a price for each, before anyone drives out.
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A supply line let go above a kitchen and part of the ceiling came down. The wall and ceiling drywall were opened, the wet material removed, new drywall set, finished and textured, and the ceiling painted.
A remediation crew had removed a water-damaged ceiling section and the surrounding drywall. We rebuilt the ceiling and wall with new drywall, taped and smoothed the seams, matched the texture and painted.
A foot came through the ceiling drywall during an attic project. We squared up the hole, braced it, set new drywall, textured and painted it in one visit.
These are Google reviews of Precision Patch Pros, the licensed contractor we are a division of. Same crew, same license, now with a Bakersfield office.
Bakersfield gets about 6.4 inches of rain a year, nearly all of it between January and March. Roofs that sat dry for nine months leak in the first big storm, and the drywall below takes the hit. Evaporative swamp coolers are still common on roofs in Oildale, East Bakersfield and the older Southwest, and a clogged overflow line drips straight through the drywall. Summer attic temperatures under a Bakersfield roof climb far past the 105 degree air outside, drying out old drywall tape and opening the seams overhead.
Tule fog from November through March keeps the air damp for weeks, so small leaks stay wet long enough to soften drywall. Add the settling from the 1952 earthquake in the older core, and Bakersfield ceilings crack, stain and sag for reasons that have nothing to do with the homeowner. Our crew is based in Bakersfield and sees the same ceiling failures from Rosedale to Rio Bravo.
Overhead work costs more than the same size wall repair because of the staging and the texture.
Yes, when the ceiling drywall is still firm. We seal the stain with a stain-blocking primer and repaint. Soft or sagging drywall has to be cut out and replaced.
Most Bakersfield ceiling repairs take one visit of three to five hours. Water damage repairs that need drying time may take two visits.
Yes. We patch the drywall and re-spray acoustic texture to blend in. Full popcorn removal is a separate service; see the link above.
Yes. We will not close a ceiling over an active leak. Send a photo and we will tell you what we see.
Not when the texture and paint are matched and blended properly. On some ceilings we paint corner to corner so the sheen is even.
Yes. We work with the thinner drywall panels and lighter joists used in manufactured homes across Bakersfield and Kern County.
Text 2-3 photos of your ceiling drywall to (661) 706-3565 or use the form below. Most quotes come back in about 10 minutes during business hours.
