Wall Repair & Patching in Durham, NC

Plaster cracks differently than drywall. The old mill houses and bungalows around downtown Durham and Trinity Park have been settling for years, and the cracks that show up — along a ceiling line, around a window, in a corner — need to be opened up a little, filled, and sanded flat before paint goes over them, or they just show back through in a season. Layers of old paint on top of the plaster make the patch trickier too, since the new material has to bond to whatever is already there. Ceiling cracks need particular care, since plaster overhead moves with the house differently than a wall does, and a patch that isn't feathered out wide enough shows up as a faint ring once the light hits it.

Rental turnover is the other steady source of wall damage in Durham. A house near the university or the hospital changes tenants, and the walls carry the marks of it — holes from furniture and pictures, dents near doorways, sometimes a section that has to come out and get replaced rather than patched. Paint 3cero repairs those sections and repaints over them so the wall looks untouched, usually working around the same move-out and move-in dates the landlord is already juggling. Move-out damage isn't always obvious from the doorway either — a dent behind where a dresser sat, a hairline crack over a doorway that opened up during the lease — so part of the job is walking the whole house before pricing anything.