Spokane Drywall Pros
Texture and Finishing in Spokane, WA
Matched from a sample off your own wall and sprayed by the crew that finished the board — with the level agreed before a coat goes on.
What it takes to make new work disappear into old
You get new work that stops looking like new work, and a wall that reads as one surface end to end.
This is the surface itself — the finish level on new board, and matching or changing a texture that is already on the wall. Getting board onto the framing in the first place is drywall installation, one page across.
We match texture in around a hundred rooms a year, most of it knockdown and orange peel, and take three or four whole houses back to flat.
Most of it is matching — a drywall repair or an addition that has to disappear into a texture already on the wall — then finishing new board to a chosen level, then whole-house changes where a dated spray comes off and a flat finish goes on. Every match is sprayed from a sample taken off your own wall and knocked back on a test board first, because a texture matched by eye off the truck is the thing that makes a repair visible from the doorway.
Homeowners who had a repair done and can still see exactly where it was, and people redecorating throughout who want the nineties knockdown gone before a painter starts.
Call for a free sample match at (509) 357-5705. You will go from pointing the patch out to visitors before they can spot it themselves, to letting them look.
What texture and finishing work covers
Matched to what is already there, or changed across the whole house — decided on a test board, not on your wall.
- Knockdown matched from a sample off your wall
- Orange peel and splatter matching
- Level 5 skim for flat and low-sheen finishes
- Dated texture taken off and reskimmed
- Popcorn ceilings scraped and refinished
- New board finished to Level 4 or Level 5
- Test boards sprayed before anything is applied
What goes into a texture that matches and stays matched
Nothing is sprayed on your wall before it has been sprayed on a board and held up against it.
Every match starts with a sample taken off the wall it has to blend into, then a test board sprayed at the same pressure, tip and mix, knocked back at the same timing and held against the room in the light it will live in. Pressure and knock-down timing change the pattern more than the mix does, which is why the board is sprayed on the day rather than matched from a photograph.
Underneath it, setting compound for the bedding coat and lightweight for the finish, sanded with a vacuum rather than open. Where the finish is flat or low-sheen the whole surface is skimmed to Level 5 rather than coated at the joints, because a low-sheen paint over a Level 4 wall shows every seam by evening.
- Sample lifted from your wall before quoting
- Test board sprayed at the same tip and pressure
- Level 5 skim under flat and low-sheen paint
- Setting compound bedded, lightweight finished
- Sanded with a vacuum rather than open
- Knock-down timed to the room, not the clock
Ask your other two quotes whether they spray a test board first, then call us and we will match a sample off your wall for free.
(509) 357-5705Why one texture match costs more than another
A match is priced by how hard it is to disappear into, and that is decided by the existing wall rather than by the size of the new work.
- What the existing texture is
- A heavy knockdown forgives a great deal and goes on quickly. A fine orange peel or a flat wall shows every variation in pressure and timing, so it takes more test boards and more care to land.
- How old the original spray is
- Texture weathers, takes paint and softens at the edges over twenty years. Matching new material to an aged pattern is the slowest part of the job, and sometimes the honest answer is to carry it to the corner.
- The finish level underneath
- Level 5 skims every square foot rather than the joints alone, which is an extra coat and sand across the whole area. Under flat paint it is not optional, and under a heavy texture it is money on a wall.
- Whether the old texture comes off
- Scraping a whole house back and skimming it is a different job from spraying over it. It is dust, drying time and several days per floor, and it is the only route to a genuinely flat finish.
- Masking and what is in the room
- Spraying needs the room sealed, floors covered and everything either out or wrapped. An empty house is quick. A furnished room with fitted carpet takes longer to protect than it does to spray.
- Ceiling or wall
- Everything overhead is slower and messier, and a ceiling is lit across rather than down, so it shows a mismatch a wall would hide. Ceilings are quoted separately from the walls in the same room.
Which of these apply is settled by looking at the wall and lifting a sample, and it comes back to you as a written price. Get a free quote
From your call to a swept floor, in six steps
Three to six days on site, and most of the noise is over in the first two.
Call for a free look at the wall and we will lift a sample and tell you honestly how close a match will get.
Get a free quoteWhat a matched finish is worth later
A texture that stops halfway across a wall is the first thing a buyer sees and the last thing they forget.
No published report puts a resale figure on drywall texture, and anybody quoting one has invented it. What is real is what a mismatch communicates: a patch that reads as a patch tells a buyer that something happened here and was dealt with cheaply, and they will price the whole house on that suspicion rather than on the four square feet in front of them.
That is the part no report covers and the part you control. A finish that runs to the corner and matches the light on both sides of the room is invisible, which is exactly what you want it to be — nothing for an inspector to note, and nothing for a buyer to stand in front of working out what it was hiding.
What the light and the air in Spokane do to a texture match
Compound sets ahead of the bag time, low winter sun rakes across every wall, and most local texture is nineties knockdown — three things that decide how a match is sprayed.
- Compound sets ahead of the bag time
- Air this dry pulls water out of a knockdown before it is ready to be knocked back, and the window is minutes rather than the quarter hour the bag allows. Mixes are made smaller and the timing is set by the room on the day rather than by the label.
- Low winter sun rakes across every wall
- From November the light comes in low and long and crosses walls at the angle that shows a joint. It is why a match is judged in the room's own light rather than under a work lamp, and why flat finishes here want a full skim underneath.
- Most local texture is nineties knockdown
- A great deal of the housing built out through the valley between 1985 and 2005 carries the same heavy knockdown, aged and painted over twice. Matching it means matching a pattern that has softened, which is a different exercise from matching a new one.
Walls and ceilings we have finished around Spokane
Finishes we have matched or changed, with the town each job went into. Every one was sampled, tested on a board and sprayed by our own crews.
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Knockdown matched after an opening
Spokane Valley
A wall opened for a doorway and closed again, with the texture carried to the corner so the painter had a clean edge rather than a blend line.
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Whole house taken back to flat
South Hill
Two floors of nineties knockdown scraped, skimmed to Level 5 and finished flat, with the rooms handed back as each one was done.
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Orange peel matched on one ceiling
Nine Mile Falls
A ceiling repaired after a leak, sampled and sprayed from a test board, and judged in the room's own afternoon light before signing off.
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Level 5 under low-sheen paint
Liberty Lake
A great room the owners wanted flat and eggshell. Whole surface skimmed rather than coated at the joints, which is what makes that paint work.
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Addition blended into a 1978 wall
Colbert
Existing splatter texture aged and painted twice. Matched on three test boards before anything was sprayed in the room itself.
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Garage finished, house matched
Deer Park
New board taken to the same knockdown as the hallway it opens onto, so the two rooms read as one surface through the doorway.
What people said once the wall was one surface
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Rated 5 out of 5
Three test boards before they touched the room. I cannot tell you which part of that wall is new.
Colin B. Colbert Texture and Finishing -
Rated 5 out of 5
We wanted flat walls and two other people quoted to spray over the knockdown. These ones explained why that does not work and what taking it off actually involves. More money, more mess, and right.
Sandra L. South Hill Texture and Finishing -
Rated 5 out of 5
The blend on our ceiling took them two goes and they said so rather than leaving it. Second one is perfect and they did not charge me for the first.
Greg A. Nine Mile Falls Texture and Finishing
Every one of these started with a look at the room and a price. Yours can start the same way.
Get a free quoteQuestions people ask before matching a texture
Can you texture over plaster walls in an older house?
Yes, once the plaster is sound and still keyed to the lath. A lot of Browne's Addition and the lower South Hill is plaster on wood lath, and any loose section has to be refixed or cut out before texture goes near it, because texture over a wall that still moves cracks along the same line inside a year.
Can you texture the ceilings and leave the walls flat?
Yes, and it is a common ask in a room being updated. The ceilings take a light spray and the walls are skimmed flat, which means two finishes and two sets of masking in one room. It costs more than doing both the same way, and it is worth it where the ceiling has a repair to disguise.
Do you paint as well, or just finish the walls?
We finish and texture; we do not paint. It is a different trade, and pretending otherwise is how ceilings end up rolled before the mud has properly gone off. We will tell you when the wall is ready for primer, which is usually the day after we leave.
Is the texture the same compound used for the taping?
It is joint compound in both cases, but not the same mix. Bedding and taping use setting compound, which hardens chemically to a timetable. Texture is a lighter compound thinned to the pattern being sprayed. Spokane air pulls water out of both faster than the bag says, so we mix small and work in sections.
How long before a newly textured wall can be painted?
A day for most sprayed textures, and longer for anything heavy. What matters is that the material is dry all the way through rather than dry to touch, because paint over a damp knockdown flashes and dries patchy. We give the painter a date at the quote and it is rarely the same afternoon.
How long does it take to retexture a whole house?
About a week for an average house, spread across more days than that. Masking is a day on its own, the spray itself is a day, and what sets the calendar is the wait between the knockdown pass and the sanding rather than the labor. Dry Spokane air shortens that wait; it does not remove it.
Does everything have to come out of the room first?
Everything soft, and anything you would mind fine dust on. Furniture can go to the middle under sheets if there is nowhere else for it, but overspray carries further than paint does and it dries where it lands. Floors are covered, doorways sealed and return vents taped over before a hopper is filled.
Do you need power and water on site to spray?
Both, and it is worth checking before the day rather than on it. The compressor runs off a standard outlet but wants a circuit of its own rather than one already carrying a heater, and mixing and cleaning out needs a running tap. On a house with the utilities off we bring a generator and water if we know.
Does doing every room at once work out cheaper?
Usually, and the reason is setup rather than material. Masking, mixing and cleaning down the gun happen once instead of five times. The bigger gain is that every room comes off the same batch, because texture mixed on two different days lands slightly differently and you see it where two rooms meet.
Should I match the old texture or redo the whole room?
It comes down to how much of the wall is coming out. A patch smaller than a sheet is worth matching, and a good match reads as nothing at all. Once the repair covers most of one wall, matching costs more than retexturing the room and still leaves a join for the light to find. We say which at the visit.
Does texture hide a poor taping job underneath it?
It hides a little and it hides less than people hope. A heavy knockdown will cover a slightly proud joint; nothing sprayed on top will fix a joint that is out of flat, because the texture follows the surface it lands on. If somebody has offered you texture as a fix for bad taping, get a second opinion.
What if a seam shows up a year later?
Call us and we will look at it. A hairline at a seam in the first year is usually the house settling or the framing drying, and it is a bed, a coat and a touch-up rather than a rip-out. What is covered and for how long is set out on your quote, so it is worth reading that before you sign.
Spokane Drywall Pros
One crew is kept off the schedule all year, for the ceiling that drops on a Tuesday.
Spokane Drywall Pros hangs, tapes, finishes and textures board across Spokane and the towns out to the county line. New construction and additions, repairs after a leak, popcorn ceilings taken down, and whole houses hung to a turnover date. Four crews, a little over two hundred jobs a year, residential and commercial alike.
Why people call us rather than the next name on the list
- Twelve years hanging drywall in this valley, since 2014
- The measure is free and the quote names the board and the finish level
- One crew held back for repairs, so a small job is not queued behind a build
- Dry air here sets compound early, and the schedule is built around that
- The room is swept, vacuumed and handed back before the van leaves
If you have a wall that has cracked, a ceiling that has started to sag or a room that needs drywall from scratch, call (509) 357-5705 and somebody will come and look at it. You get a written price off the measurements rather than a number guessed over the phone, and if a patch will do the job we will tell you so.
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304 W Pacific Ave, Ste 210, Spokane, WA, 99201
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