Hawkwood's early-1990s homes see regular ceiling crack and nail-pop calls. Matching the existing texture cleanly after repair is the part most people get wrong -- we don't.
Hawkwood sits in the mature NW belt -- homes here from the early 1990s that have been through 30+ Alberta winters. The combination of seasonal temperature swings and settling means crack repair is the most common call we get from Hawkwood. Most are stress cracks at header locations or long runs across the main-floor ceiling -- not structural, just the house moving with the seasons over decades.
The ceiling texture in most Hawkwood homes is knockdown from the early 1990s -- coarser than what you'd see applied today. Matching it requires hand-applying compound to approximate the original pattern rather than using a hopper and spray gun set for a finer modern knockdown. We've done enough Hawkwood homes to know what the texture looks like and how to match it.
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