Most of Tualatin was built from the 1980s on. Around Tualatin Commons, off Boones Ferry, up near Byrom, and in the newer builds by the river, the houses are subdivision homes with machine-sprayed texture over the drywall. The wear on them comes from a few decades of family life, not a century.
That shapes the calls we get in Tualatin. Most are for doorknob holes and stress cracks, a line of nail pops down a hallway the winter after the framing settled, a ceiling seam that cracked open over a bedroom, and remodels where a wall comes out or a bonus room gets finished. We see very little lath and plaster. Most jobs are original drywall that needs a section repaired to match the rest. In a newer home, the patch is the easy part. The harder part is getting machine-sprayed orange peel or knockdown to look like one continuous surface again. Sprayed texture is hard to copy by hand, and a close-but-wrong match shows under hallway lights.
