Hawkwood's early-1990s homes are ideal skim-coat candidates -- enough settling and crack history that a full skim often makes more sense than chasing individual patches.
Hawkwood homes from the early 1990s have been through 30+ Alberta winters. The ceiling condition in many: knockdown texture from that era (coarser pattern than modern), multiple small cracks at header locations, and at least one or two previous repair attempts. When a homeowner is preparing to repaint or renovate, patching individual cracks in this kind of ceiling can produce a surface that still looks like it's been repaired. A skim coat delivers a fresh, continuous flat surface that paints cleanly.
Skim coating in Hawkwood also comes up for walls -- particularly in kitchens and bathrooms where moisture and multiple coats of paint have built up unevenly over 30 years, or where wallpaper was removed and the drywall face is damaged.