Walls and ceilings in your Hanover Park home without the row of bumps and craters from popped nails and screws, fixed so they stay down.
A nail pop is a fastener that has worked loose and pushed its compound out, leaving a bump or a ring on the wall. Tapping it back in and dabbing on filler lasts until the next change of season. We set a new screw an inch or so away to pull the board tight to the framing, then sink or pull the old nail and finish over both. Two or three thin coats, a light sanding, primer and paint make each spot disappear, and holes, cracks or dented corners elsewhere in the house get fixed on the same visit.
We work in Hanover Park every week, reaching it on Irving Park Road, Barrington Road and Lake Street, with the Metra station in town. It straddles Cook and DuPage counties, with Schaumburg, Roselle and Bloomingdale around it. Pops tend to show up in a line along a stud or across a ceiling joist, often after a dry winter when the framing shrinks a little. If your ceiling has a row of them, it usually makes sense to reset the whole run while we are there rather than chase them one at a time.
A new screw set beside each one to pull the board tight, then both spots finished.
Screws that have backed out reset below the surface and covered with fresh compound.
Whole rows reset across the ceiling so the repair is consistent.
Loose rings of compound around fasteners scraped off and refinished.
Wall damage elsewhere cut back to sound board, patched and finished.
Each spot primed and painted, or the wall or ceiling painted where a touch-up would flash.
We look at every wall and ceiling you point out, mark each pop and hole, and leave a free written estimate that counts them by room. If a pop turns out to come from a twisted stud or a loose ceiling joist, we show you, price that repair in writing and wait for your approval. We start same-day when the schedule allows and return while the compound dries between coats. At the end we check each spot with you under a light held at an angle, since that shows what a straight-on look misses.
Text a photo of the worst wall to (815) 585-1750. We count every spot and put the fix in writing.
Call or text (815) 585-1750
Email matt@onitcc.com