We’ve got that summer sunshine, golden leaves in the autumn, winter
snows, and spring showers. Unfortunately, that can also cause your
plaster and drywall to expand and contract as the temperatures
fluctuate, and at some point you’ve likely seen the surface of the wall
crack with those pressures. Any time you’re faced with a problem like
plaster and drywall cracks, there are two ways you can fix it: you can
either patch over the issue and keep scraping by at the status quo, or
you can take the extra effort to solve the problem for good. If you’re seeing hairline cracks, there’s a pretty quick fix for that.
Nolan’s team will run a coat of Spackle over the crack and feather-sand
it. Structural cracks, on the other hand, tend to come back very quickly
with a Spackle fix. For structural cracks, we’ll cut open the rift and
clean it, then patch and fill it. After that, we run a two-inch
fiberglass mesh over the expanse of the crack. The fiberglass mesh makes
a tear-resistant surface, which we Spackle and feather-sand.