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The repair nobody can find
Texture is where most drywall repairs fail. The patch holds fine; it just looks like a patch. Matching the texture around it is a skill, and it's the one this company is named for.
Walk through any house in DFW and you'll find one: a smooth square on an orange-peel wall, a shiny spot on a knockdown ceiling. Somebody patched the hole and skipped the hard part. Texture matching is hard because no two walls are sprayed the same; the pattern depends on the mud thickness, the spray pressure, the knockdown timing, and even how many times the wall has been painted since.
Matching it means reading the existing pattern first. How big are the splatters, how flat were they knocked down, how much has paint softened the profile over the years. Then we replicate it on the repair and feather the edges, so there's no line where new texture meets old. After 31 years of finishing walls, we have matched most textures DFW builders have ever used.
We match textures on our own repairs, on new walls that need to blend into old ones, and on work other people left unfinished. If a previous patch is bothering you every time you walk past it, that's a normal job for us: we re-float the area and blend it in properly.
Some textures are also just done. If you'd rather lose the popcorn ceiling or take a dated texture to smooth, we do that too, full walls and full ceilings, finished ready for paint.
“The patch holds fine. It just looks like a patch. That's the problem we fix.”
Textures we match
- Orange peel
- the most common DFW wall texture, in light to heavy profiles
- Knockdown
- matched for splatter size and trowel timing
- Hand textures
- skip trowel, hawk-and-trowel, and older hand-applied patterns
- Smooth finish
- level 5 skim coats where any flaw would show
- Popcorn ceilings
- patched to blend, or removed entirely
Blends, not squares
Feathered edges and a matched pattern. The eye slides right past where the repair was.
Three decades of finishes
We have been matching Texas wall textures since the early nineties.
Fix old patches too
Bad patches from past repairs get re-floated and blended in right.
How it works
- 1
Read the wall
We identify the texture type and profile from your photos or in person.
- 2
Match and test
We replicate the pattern on the repair area and adjust until it blends.
- 3
Feather and finish
Edges feathered out so there's no visible seam between new and old.
Who calls me for this
- Homeowners with a visible patch from an earlier repair
- Sellers who need walls looking clean for listing photos
- Anyone adding on and wanting new walls to match old
- Owners ready to remove popcorn or dated texture
About the estimate
Texture matching is included in our repair estimates. Photo estimates work here too; a straight-on shot and a raking-light shot tell us most of what we need.
Common questions
Can you really make the patch invisible?
On most textures, yes, especially once it's painted. Heavy hand textures on walls with decades of paint are the hardest; we'll tell you honestly what to expect before we start.
Someone else's patch looks bad. Can you fix it?
Yes. We float over the old repair, rebuild the texture across the whole area, and blend it into the surrounding wall.
Other ways I can help
Got a hole in your wall?
Send a few photos and you'll have your estimate the same day, anywhere in DFW.