Drywall Repair in Bulverde, TX for Cracks, Ceilings and Whole Rooms

How a Drywall Job in Bulverde Usually Runs

The city you drive through now was put together out of five separate cities, and it took twenty-two elections to finish the job. Bulverde is in Comal County, and it got there the long way around. Boerne Drywall covers the whole of it. A drywall repair in Bulverde, TX runs the way it does everywhere else we work: we look at what's actually there, put a price on it, and nothing starts until that price suits you.

The city calls itself the Front Porch of the Texas Hill Country, which is a fair description of how it's laid out. Houses are scattered instead of gridded, strung along the Cibolo, up the Honey Creek valley and onto the ridges between them. So the calls come in every size. A hairline in a hallway one week, a room stripped back to studs the next, and both of them ordinary days for us.

The two kinds of ground under a Bulverde wall

Bulverde publishes its own soils, which isn't something many cities bother to do. Up on the high ground it's shallow undulating soil sitting on limestone or hard chalk. Down on the stream terraces and the valley fills it's deeper loamy, clayey and gravelly ground. Two houses a mile apart can be standing on two different things, and we'd sooner know which one is under yours before anybody turns up with an opinion about your wall. If you're not sure which you're on, the drive up to your own house usually tells you.

How the old rock walls ended up in the farm road

Plenty of the property lines out that way still carry dry-laid stone: rock walls stacked without mortar and shimmed with chips so they hold each other up. The city's own history records that a lot of them were sold off by ranchers and crushed for fill when the farm road was widened.

Your own walls are simpler: board over studs with a sprayed finish on top, and most of a repair is getting that finish to match again.

Is yours a patch, or a new piece of board?

You can get most of the way to the answer from your side of it. Press the wall gently a couple of inches out from the damage. If everything around it is firm, the damaged part is all that's coming out, and that's a patch. If the board gives or crumbles under your hand, that's a sign whatever caused it went further than the hole did, and a new piece is the better result.

A photograph tells us more than a description does. Hold something ordinary against the wall for scale, a phone or a tape measure, and take the picture square on instead of at an angle. Most of the time that's enough for us to tell you which of the two you're looking at, and what the work involves, on the call itself.

What happens when we come out to price your drywall job

We come out, look at the damage with you, measure what's involved and write the price for that. If a wall turns out to be bowed rather than damaged, you'll hear that too, along with what it takes to flatten it. The list below is roughly the range we're called for in Bulverde, smallest first.

• A hairline over a doorway, filled, textured and handed back ready for your paint
• Damage behind a door handle or where a foot went through, patched into the wall around it
• A ceiling seam that has opened up, or a corner overhead that's started to bow
• A wall opened for plumbing or wiring and closed back level with the wall around it
• A room taken to studs, boarded out, taped, finished and textured to match the rest
• A house still being built, boarded and finished while it's empty and easy to work in

Whichever of those is yours, most of what you're paying for is time on site, and most of that time goes on the finish rather than on the board. The blend has to run well out past the new work, so a hole the size of your hand can still mean working a fair stretch of wall around it. Done that way, what you end up looking at is a wall rather than a repair.

Dust is the other thing you'll want to know about before we start. Doorways get sealed and floors get covered before any sanding begins, so it stays in the room we're working in and your kitchen stays a kitchen. When your wall is ready to take paint, we'll walk the room with you and say so.