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Our Lexington team installs new sheetrock and repairs damaged drywall for homes and businesses across Columbia, Cayce, West Columbia, and the wider Midlands. Whether you need a small patch before listing a home, wall repair after a plumbing leak, or a full room of new drywall for a renovation, we hang, tape, mud, sand, and prime to a paint-ready finish. Homeowners and general contractors hire us because we are licensed and insured, give free written estimates, match textures by hand, use dustless sanding, and coordinate timing with other trades.
Clean Drywall Patches That Disappear Under Finish Coats
Drywall repair that reads invisible under paint takes more steps than most homeowners expect. We tape every seam, apply three coats of mud with sanding between, feather patches eight to twelve inches past the damage, and prime before any finish coat. Texture matching is its own craft. Orange peel, knockdown, and hand-applied patterns all read different at different sizes. A good patch stays invisible in every light.
We offer flexible scheduling — evenings, weekends, and phased work — to ensure your business continues running smoothly during painting.
We use heavy-duty coatings made for commercial buildings, offering excellent resistance to scuffs, stains, and fading in high-traffic environments.
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Installation, Patching, and Texture Matching
New sheetrock installation covers renovations, additions, and retrofits where old lath-and-plaster comes down. We hang, tape, mud, sand, and leave the surface ready for paint. Repair covers everything smaller, including nail pops, fist holes, stair-rail damage, water stains, and old patches. We match existing textures by hand when it matters, using hawk and trowel rather than canned spray, because spray rarely blends with existing walls on repair work.
Drywall Services That Lead Straight Into Painting
Drywall repair is almost always the step before paint. We coordinate straight into interior painting so the patched area gets primed and finished in the same visit.
For ceiling-specific work, we also coordinate popcorn ceiling removal and water damage repair.
Drywall Work Across Lexington and the Midlands
We handle drywall install and repair across Lexington, Columbia, Cayce, and West Columbia. Whether you need a small patch before listing or a full room of new drywall, we fit the scope. See examples on our Lexington interior painting and Columbia interior pages.
Wall Damage Before the Repaint Starts?
Good paint over bad drywall never looks right. If you have nail pops, cracks, or holes before your next interior project, or need a room built back after renovation, our licensed, insured crew would be glad to take a look. Contact us to schedule a free walkthrough today.
Everything from a pinhole to a wall’s worth of damage. Nail pops, hairline cracks, doorknob holes, TV-mount damage, fist holes, and old patches that never blended are all standard work. Larger damage includes water intrusion, sagging ceilings, and drywall that has to come out and go back in. We also handle small corner bead damage, wall-to-ceiling seam cracks, and the bumpy patches left behind by a previous fast repair job done before a move or a listing.
Yes. We hang, tape, mud, sand, and prime new drywall for room additions, basement finishes, closet builds, and whole-room remodels. We coordinate with the general contractor, framer, or electrician to time hanging correctly relative to framing inspection and electrical rough-in. For homeowners doing their own renovations, we can come in after framing and handle drywall through primer as a drop-in scope so the finish carpenter arrives to a paint-ready surface.
Large holes get a cutback to a clean rectangle, a backer block behind the drywall, a cut piece of new drywall screwed into the backer, and three mud coats with sanding between. Corners of the patch get taped with mesh or paper tape. We feather the mud eight to twelve inches past the patch edge so the patch disappears under primer and paint. Done right, you cannot find the location after the finish coat cures. Done wrong, you see the outline forever.
Yes. That’s where the real quality of drywall work shows. Tape locks seams; mud fills and levels them over three coats; sanding flattens them between coats and before primer. Shortcuts at any step show as ridges, bumps, or outlines under the finish paint. We use dustless sanding where we can, which keeps airborne drywall dust out of your HVAC system, and we wet-wipe the repair area before primer so no powder stays on the surface to hurt adhesion.
Joint compound dries slower in humid weather, particularly from June through September in Lexington and Columbia. A coat that would dry overnight in January can take 24 to 36 hours in August. We plan for it. Staging coats across multiple days, running HVAC dehumidification where available, and avoiding the temptation to sand tacky mud. A rushed repair in humid weather is the easiest way to create visible shadows and ridges that show up after paint cures.
Yes: orange peel, knockdown, heavy hand-applied, light skim. We match by hand rather than canned spray when the existing wall is textured. Spray textures from a can almost never blend with an aged wall, and the patch outline shows up after paint. We use hawk and trowel, thinned mud, and practice on scrap until pattern and density match. If the wall had popcorn texture, we’ll recommend popcorn ceiling removal instead of matching.
Yes. Cut-in patches for plumbers and electricians are regular work for us. After the trade is done and the area is accessible, we piece drywall back in, tape, mud, sand, and prime. For full-renovation clients, our painting company coordinates drywall timing with the other trades so the project doesn’t lose days waiting for us. Same approach for bathroom leaks, ceiling access, or wall repairs after an HVAC run.
Yes, once the leak is fixed and the drywall is fully dry. We cut out soft or stained material, confirm the cavity behind is dry, piece in new drywall, tape, mud, sand, and prime. Painting over active moisture never holds. Stains come back, paint bubbles, and mildew can grow behind the wall. For larger moisture-origin jobs we coordinate with water damage repair scope so the underlying cause is addressed, not painted over.
A good repair is invisible once primer and two finish coats have fully cured. The visible signs of bad drywall work are ridges where tape runs, mud outlines where patches were feathered too short, texture that doesn’t match, and flashing where primer missed the repair area. We prime every repair before finish coats. A non-negotiable step that a lot of rushed jobs skip. If you can still see where the repair was after we’re done, we come back and fix it.
Yes. Soda City Painting is licensed as a general contractor in South Carolina and carries general liability insurance and workers’ compensation on every job we take. Certificates of insurance are provided on request, and we document drywall product used (manufacturer, type, thickness) for any structural or insurance-claim situation where that record matters. We treat residential and commercial clients the same on documentation standards throughout.
