Ceiling Repair in Houston, TX

What ceiling repair covers

Drywall and plaster ceilings are what's in most Houston homes — a finished, painted surface that cracks as the house moves, sags when it was hung poorly or has aged, and takes holes and impact damage. Older homes often have plaster over wood lath overhead, which cracks and repairs differently than modern drywall. Either way it's finish work — drywall or plaster, texture, and paint.

That's what this page covers: cutting out and replacing a sagging section, patching cracks and holes, removing popcorn, and matching texture and paint so the repair disappears.

Drywall and plaster ceiling repair — sagging, cracks, and plaster

The most common drywall and plaster ceiling calls in Houston are sagging, cracking, and failing plaster.

Sagging ceilings: drywall that's bowing or pulling down was usually fastened poorly or has aged, and a sagging ceiling can come down, so it's worth looking at sooner rather than later. We cut out the compromised section, re-support it, and replace it.

Cracks and holes: cracks that run off corners and reopen each season are usually slab movement; holes and impact damage are straightforward patches. Either way, a ceiling repair is only invisible if the texture and paint are matched, which is the next section.

Plaster ceilings: in older homes, plaster over wood lath cracks and can pull away from the lath in sections that sound hollow when tapped. We re-secure or rebuild failed plaster to match the surrounding ceiling rather than boarding over it.

Popcorn removal and ceiling texture matching

Two things separate a ceiling repair you can see from one you can't.

Popcorn ceiling removal: scraping off dated popcorn texture and refinishing the ceiling smooth or with a modern texture. On older Houston homes we handle pre-1980s texture carefully, since it can contain materials that shouldn't just be dry-scraped and thrown around.

Ceiling texture matching: Houston ceilings run heavy on knockdown and orange-peel textures, and matching the existing spray pattern is the whole game on a patch — get it wrong and the repair stands out under every light. We match the texture and prime before painting, because fresh mud takes paint differently than the surrounding ceiling, and on a ceiling that difference "flashes" straight at you. Where a spot repair would show, we'll tell you when finishing the whole ceiling gives a better result.

If your ceiling is tile and grid, not drywall

If the ceiling overhead is lay-in panels dropped into a metal grid rather than a solid painted surface, that's a different trade and we handle it separately. See our dedicated page for that work.

If your ceiling is water-damaged

A brown ring, a stain, or a ceiling that's gone soft and sagged from a leak is water damage, and it's a different repair — the leak has to be found and stopped first, the saturated board replaced, and the stain sealed so it doesn't bleed back. We handle that as its own job; see our ceiling water damage repair page.

What ceiling repair costs in Houston

A drywall or plaster patch with texture and paint is modest. A sagging ceiling cut out and replaced, a full popcorn removal, or plaster that has to be re-secured or rebuilt scales up from there.

What moves the number: how many areas and how big, drywall versus plaster, texture matching, and how much painting the repair pulls in. Several repairs done in one visit cost less per repair than separate trips. These are ranges, not quotes — we look at the actual ceiling and give you a real number.