- San Diego based
- Answering 24/7
- Over 20 years experience
- Licensed & insured
- CSLB #761040
- BBB A+ rated
What Hillcrest does to drywall
Hillcrest is old stock that has been worked on repeatedly. Kitchens opened up, bathrooms moved, apartments carved out of single-family homes — each round leaving a different surface behind at a slightly different thickness.
So the common job is not a clean new wall, it is new board meeting eighty-year-old plaster and having to read as one plane. That is a float-and-feather problem more than a hanging problem, and it is worth pricing honestly rather than discovering halfway through.
What we are called for here
- 01 Plaster-to-drywall transitions in period homes
- 02 Apartment conversions and unit turnovers
- 03 Hand-texture matching where no spray pattern will sit right
What a Level 5 finish includes in Hillcrest
A skim coat is a whole-surface job, not a joint job. The entire plane gets coated so compound and paper face take paint identically — which is the only way a wall stays flat under raking light.
Substrate first
Joints taped and filled, fasteners spotted, beads set true. The skim is only ever as flat as what sits under it.
Skim the whole plane
A thin coat pulled edge to edge across the surface, not just over the seams.
Cut and read
Sanded flat, then checked under a raking light from the angle the room will actually be lit.
Level 4 where it fits
Level 4 specified where lighting and sheen do not demand a full skim — we will say so rather than sell the upgrade.
Full detail on method, materials and timelines is on the skim coating and Level 5 page.
Drywall Installation
Hanging is the quick part.
Service in HillcrestMetal Stud Framing
Light-gauge steel partitions, soffits and ceiling grid, framed to the drawings and coordinated with the trades that follow.
OverviewAll services in Hillcrest
Everything we do in this community, on one page.
Rated 4.8 from 129 reviews
“Great same-day service, great repair!”
“This is the third time we’ve used this company to do plaster fixes in our house, and I would use them again.”
“Had a good sized hole in my drywall, Daniel came out same day and had it fixed within an hour.”
