Plastering
Interior plastering, drywall, and exterior stucco — smooth, code-compliant finishes prepped correctly for paint or texture.
The wall you never notice is the one done right.
Plastering and drywall are the trades that make every other finish possible — a wall has to be flat, sound, and correctly prepped before paint, tile, or millwork goes on. We run this as a dedicated scope: patching and skim-coating interior walls, hanging and finishing new drywall, and re-stuccoing exteriors to current Miami-Dade standards.
On older homes this is often where problems hide — cracked or hollow plaster, water-damaged drywall, deteriorated exterior stucco. We assess the substrate honestly before quoting the finish, so the smooth wall you get actually stays smooth.
Scope of Work
- Interior skim-coat & patching
- Drywall hanging & finishing
- Exterior stucco & re-stucco
- Texture matching (knockdown, orange peel)
- Substrate assessment & repair
- Crack & hollow-spot remediation
- Corner bead & trim detail
- Paint-ready finish prep
What Miami Owners Ask About Plastering
Specific answers for plastering in Miami-Dade and Broward — the questions that actually decide the scope.
What should be checked before sanding or removing old wall and ceiling finishes?
Whether the material contains asbestos, and on painted surfaces whether lead sits underneath. Textured ceiling coatings and some older wall compounds are the usual candidates. Testing costs little and has to happen before anyone touches a sander, because disturbing the material creates the exposure. Leaving it undisturbed does not.
A positive result changes the method more than the outcome: encapsulation or licensed abatement instead of a sander. What it does change is the schedule, so it belongs at the start of a project rather than the morning the crew arrives.
What is the difference between drywall repair and plastering?
Drywall work hangs and finishes board; plastering skim-coats and repairs solid wall surfaces. The distinction matters on older Miami-Dade houses, where a new drywall patch meets original plaster and the two have to finish to the same plane and take paint the same way. We do both, which is what lets that joint disappear.
Matching an existing texture, knockdown, orange peel, or smooth, is its own skill, and a mismatched patch reads as a repair from across the room even when the wall is flat.
Have a Plastering project?
Tell us the scope. We’ll come back with a real plan and a real number.