Working Hours: Mon - Fri: 9:00 to 18:00 | Sat - Sun : Closed
Working Hours: Mon - Fri: 9:00 to 18:00 | Sat - Sun : Closed
Pickering to Clarington, we patch the wall and move on to the next one — a hole from moving day, a crack over a door in a subdivision that's still settling, a ceiling stain nobody's gotten around to yet. Cut back, filled, feathered, sanded flush, primed and left ready for a paintbrush. One flat price in writing before we touch anything, sized to fit around a working household's week instead of the other way around.
Drive the 401 corridor from Pickering through Ajax, Whitby and Oshawa into Clarington and the housing stock changes every few exits — glass-and-brick towers rising near the GO stations, subdivisions still shedding builder's dust two winters after closing, post-war streets in Oshawa where the plaster is older than the paint sitting on top of it. IntraBuild works all of it. A hole punched on move-in day, a crack that shows up over a bedroom door, a ceiling stain nobody's called about yet — cut back, filled, taped, feathered, sanded and primed, one visit at a time, priced and agreed on paper before the first cut goes in.
A door handle through the wall on move-in day in Ajax, a dolly ding in a Whitby stairwell — we back it with board or mesh, build the fill in layers, and feather it out until the wall reads flat again.
New streets in north Pickering and Ajax throw a crack over a doorway as the frame finishes drying out; older Durham houses pop nails as the seasons cycle. Either way, it gets cut back, re-set and finished flush.
Tape gone bubbly, a seam ghosting through the paint, a joint that let go as the house settled in — stripped back, re-taped with mesh or paper, and buried under fresh compound.
A slow leak off an Oshawa roof, an old ice-dam mark nobody dealt with — cut to dry material, locked down with a stain-blocking primer, rebuilt overhead.
Seaton, north Ajax, north Whitby — houses only a couple winters old still shift as framing finishes drying and the ground settles under them. The crack over the door is normal; leaving it isn't required.
Eastdale, Vanier and the rest of the GM-boom streets still carry plaster and lath under decades of paint. It moves differently than drywall, and it gets patched accordingly instead of forced.
Rental houses along Simcoe Street and Conlin Road cycle tenants every August — scuffed corners, a hole behind a door, the usual pre-lease list, closed up before the next key gets cut.
An access panel from three renovations ago, a thermostat hole from a swapped-out system — closed properly instead of hidden behind a picture frame.
What it costs depends on what's actually wrong — a nail pop in an Ajax townhome is a different job than a stretch of Oshawa ceiling that's been leaking for a season. Plan on $120–650 per repair by tier, with a $200 service-call minimum, before HST. Match your damage to a tier below; the table further down breaks it out job by job.
| A single patch | $120–200 |
|---|---|
| Hole with new backing | $220–380 |
| Stained ceiling section | $350–650 |
| Full room / whole-house skim | quoted on site |
Every price includes the patch, the tape, the sanding and a coat of primer — no separate mileage charge anywhere between Pickering and Clarington. These are before-HST guide numbers; a free written quote locks in the exact figure once we've seen photos or been out.
Seaton in north Pickering and the growing edges of north Ajax are only a couple winters old in places, and drywall over doorways and stairwells is usually first to show it as framing finishes drying out.
Newer Whitby subdivisions bring the same first-winter cracking as Ajax, while streets closer to the downtown core mix in older plaster that needs a different touch.
Eastdale and Vanier carry GM-era plaster behind the paint, while houses off Simcoe Street and Conlin Road near Ontario Tech and Durham College see the familiar late-August tenant scramble.
Newer Bowmanville and Courtice streets bring builder-warranty cracks over doors and windows; we're out this far as often as we're in Pickering.
Towers and townhomes along the lakefront pick up the odd moving-day ding and, once in a while, a ceiling stain from the unit above — condo boards want these handled fast, elevator bookings and all.
A lot of Oshawa bungalows had their basements finished decades back — panelling and a drop ceiling often hiding plaster or early drywall that's due for a proper look once the reno finally happens.
Older main-street buildings mix ground-floor storefronts with apartments above, usually over century-plus plaster and lath — these repairs move slower, matching an old wall instead of just patching it.
Builder walkthroughs in Whitby and Clarington subdivisions regularly flag drywall cracks over doors and windows in year one or two — normal for a settling house, and quick to knock off the list.
A single patch doesn't wait behind a bigger renovation on our books — most Durham families want the hole gone this week, without burning two days off work to make it happen.
Sanding compound throws fine dust that travels fast — the work area gets sealed off with poly and sanded with vacuum-attached tools wherever we can, so the rest of the house stays livable.
Nothing changes once the wall's open — the number is set on paper first, by the same insured crew that builds our new drywall installs across Durham.
Every patch leaves sanded and primed, ready to go. If matching the paint yourself isn't appealing, our interior painting crew can blend it in the same visit.
Text or email a few clear shots — most jobs get sized and priced by tier from photos alone, before a truck is ever booked.
Floors, furniture and anything nearby get protected, poly goes up around the work area, before the first cut.
Damaged material comes out to sound board, backed with mesh, a backing board or new framing so the patch has something to grip.
New board or filler goes in, seams get taped with mesh or paper, and the first passes of compound go on.
Compound builds up thin, feathered wide, then sanded until the patch is impossible to find by hand or by eye.
Stain-blocking primer goes on where it's needed, we walk the repair together, and you're left with a wall ready for paint that day.
Most jobs run through all six steps in a single visit — a water-damaged ceiling might need a short second trip once the compound's cured. Same crew either way, start to finish.
Most jobs land between $120 and $650 depending on tier — a small patch at the bottom, a water-damaged ceiling section at the top — with a $200 service-call minimum, before HST. Send photos for a free written number.
Written quotes usually turn around within 48 hours of photos, and repair calls don't sit behind bigger renovation jobs on our schedule — most Durham patches book within the week.
We can usually work from a spare key, a lockbox, or a neighbour, once the scope's confirmed by photos and agreed on paper — plenty of Durham repairs get done without the homeowner missing a shift.
Most patches, cracks and nail pops finish in a single visit — cut, backed, taped, feathered, sanded and primed the same day. A water-damaged ceiling sometimes needs a short second trip once compound has cured.
Yes — Clarington, Uxbridge, Port Perry and the townships around them are inside our regular Durham run, no separate mileage charge.
Yes — bundling every flagged crack and nail pop into one visit is common with newer Whitby and Clarington builds, and it's usually quoted as a single job rather than several call-outs.
Yes — plaster and lath move differently than drywall, and we know when a repair needs a plaster patch versus a drywall infill. If a wall's too far gone to blend, full re-board through our drywall installation service is sometimes the cleaner fix.
Yes — property owners with rental houses near Ontario Tech and Durham College often bundle several small patches into one visit ahead of a tenant walkthrough or city inspection, quoted from photos in advance.
Drywall repair isn't limited to Durham Region — IntraBuild works right across the GTA and Southern Ontario, all on one written per-square-foot price with no separate travel fee.
Send photos of the damage — a crack in an Ajax subdivision, a stained Oshawa ceiling, a scuffed rental wall near Ontario Tech — and we'll size it to a tier and send back a number in writing, usually inside 48 hours. Small jobs get the same straight answer as big ones. Free to ask, no pressure either way.
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