Drywall repair and installation in Hillsboro.

Most of Hillsboro was built in the last few decades as the tech corridor grew. The walls are drywall with a sprayed texture on top, not the lath and plaster you find in inner Portland. In these houses the patch itself is usually the easy part, and matching the texture is the hard part. Production builders around Orenco Station, AmberGlen, and Tanasbourne sprayed orange peel and knockdown across whole subdivisions, and each crew's spray came out a little different in how coarse it is and how far apart the bumps sit. A patch that doesn't match looks like a flat or blotchy spot on an otherwise even wall.

That's why most of our time on a Hillsboro repair goes into the match. We study the spray pattern on your wall, feather the new texture into it, then prime and paint out to the nearest corner or edge so you can't see where the repair stops.

As a drywall contractor in Hillsboro, we do the full range of drywall work. These are the jobs that come up most in local homes:

• Drywall installation for remodels and additions. We hang, tape, and finish the new walls and ceilings.
• Garage and basement finishing in newer houses where the builder left those spaces unfinished. We build the wall the garage shares with the house to fire code.
• Texture matching on the orange peel and knockdown that came standard in these subdivisions.
• Drywall repair for holes, cracks, and nail pops. These show up even in a house that's only ten or fifteen years old, because the framing keeps drying out and settling.

A repair here is a different job from a repair in a 1910 bungalow across the river. There's almost no plaster or lath, just drywall with a machine-sprayed texture. People expect a newer house not to crack, but it does. The lumber in the framing keeps drying and settling for years after the drywall goes up. The calls we get most are cracks over doors and windows, nails and screws popping out along the studs, doorknob holes, and remodels where a wall was opened up and now needs to be closed cleanly. New homes are still going up along the western edge of town, and we hang and finish drywall for those builds too.

The Drywall Repair Co. is a service-area business. We come to your Hillsboro home, and there's no shop for you to visit. To get started, send a few photos of the damage or the room along with your ZIP code. We'll reply with a written estimate, usually within one business day. If you'd rather talk it over first, give us a call.

We also cover nearby Beaverton and Aloha on the same terms as Hillsboro.