Ceilings
Smooth Ceiling Refinishing.
Ceilings are the hardest surface to hide and the easiest to get wrong.
On the job
Real work from Durham Region homes and job sites.
Ceilings live under the worst possible lighting conditions — light travels across them at a shallow angle and reveals every imperfection.
We resurface ceilings that have been patched too many times, cracked along seams, stained by an old leak, or roller-stippled by a previous paint job.
What's included
- Seam and crack reinforcement
- Stain-blocking primer on water and nicotine marks
- Skim coat to level texture and patch marks
- Fine sanding with dust extraction
- Two coats of high-hide flat ceiling paint
- Crisp cut lines at the wall and crown
The details
Why ceilings crack along the walls
Truss uplift. Ontario attics move seasonally and pull the ceiling away from the top plate. Filling the crack over and over does not work; the fix is either a reinforced repair or a crown detail that lets the joint move.
Sheen matters
Anything above a dead flat sheen on a ceiling will telegraph every imperfection. We use ultra-flat ceiling paint unless the room is a bathroom, where a scrubbable flat or matte is safer.
Common questions
Can you paint over a water stain?
Only after the leak is fixed and the area is dry, and only with a shellac- or oil-based stain blocker. Latex primer alone will let the stain bleed back through.