Historic plaster repair for houses built before drywall existed.
Canton Plaster Repair is a plaster restoration crew based in Canton, Ohio, serving Stark County. Four in ten Canton homes went up before 1939, all of them lath and plaster, and the trades that answer a search for help are drywall crews and template pages. We repair the original walls, print our prices, and match the finish so you cannot find the fix.
- Published pricing, invoice matches
- Test patch before the full room
- Lime materials for lime-era walls
- Lead-safe on pre-1978 paint
Ceiling doing something worrying? Call (330) 919-7626. A Canton line, answered by the plasterer.
Plaster repair in Canton, Ohio typically costs $250 to $650 to fix a cracked area properly, $600 to $1,500 to stabilize a sagging ceiling with plaster washers and adhesive, and $900 to $2,200 to skim-coat a whole room, with national guides putting the average plaster repair job near $3,840 and typical projects between $2,000 and $7,200. Canton Plaster Repair is a historic plaster repair service based in Canton serving Stark County, where about 41 percent of the city’s homes were built before 1939 and carry original lath-and-plaster walls. The crew repairs cracks with mesh bridging, saves sagging ceilings before they fall, skims damaged rooms, and uses lime-compatible materials on pre-1900 walls, including homes in the Ridgewood and Central Ridgewood historic districts. Every price is printed on the public cost page, estimates come with a room-by-room written plan, and the line at (330) 919-7626 reaches the plasterer directly.
Canton built its walls by hand. They deserve better than burial.
A lath-and-plaster wall is three coats of real masonry: a scratch coat keyed through wood lath, a brown coat for body, and a finish coat troweled by someone who did it every day of his life. Those walls crack when foundations settle and furnaces swap, ceilings sag when a century of gravity breaks the keys, and finish coats scar when wallpaper leaves. None of that is a death sentence. Washers and adhesive reattach a ceiling. Mesh bridges a moving crack. A skim coat renews a tired room. The wall that survives is denser, quieter, and straighter than any overlay that would have buried it.
What Canton has lacked is a trade to call. Search plaster repair here and the results are drywall generalists, a fire-restoration company, a template site with the same page for forty cities, and a Cleveland brand with no Canton anchor. Canton Plaster Repair is the dedicated answer, with published prices nobody else in the county will print.
Six ways old walls ask for help.
Crack repair that stays closed
Settling cracks off door and window corners, stair-step cracks along lath lines. Cut back to sound plaster, bridged with mesh, refinished to match. Caulk and paint is the six-month version; this is the twelve-year one.
Sagging ceiling stabilization
A bellied ceiling means broken keys, and it can usually be saved with plaster washers and injectable adhesive if the call comes before gravity wins. Half the cost of replacement, and the original ceiling stays.
Skim coats that rescue rooms
Alligatored finish, wallpaper-removal scars, and decades of patchwork disappear under a proper skim. The room reads like new plaster while the sound base coats keep doing their job.
Water-damage repair
Stained, soft, or fallen sections assessed honestly: what seals, what stabilizes, what has to come out. We fix plaster after you fix the leak, in that order, on purpose.
Lime-era and district work
Pre-1900 walls want lime-compatible materials and breathable finishes, the method the National Park Service prescribes. Ridgewood and the canal towns get the restoration version of this trade.
Trade-chase patching
Rewires and re-pipes leave channels an electrician should never be the one to patch. Setting plaster in lifts, bridged and matched, so the walls never testify to the surgery.
The prices are printed. No plaster trade in Stark County prints any.
Crack areas run $250 to $650. Ceiling stabilization runs $600 to $1,500, replacement of a failed section $800 to $2,400. Room skims run $900 to $2,200, and water-damage work $600 to $2,500 depending on how far the wet traveled. Everyone else quotes after the walk-through and hopes you were not comparing. Our cost guide puts the whole table in the open, explains what moves each number, and the invoice matches it.
Stark County, ranked by the age of its walls.
Massillon’s pre-war blocks, North Canton’s Hoover-era homes, the canal towns’ 1800s lime plaster, Alliance’s Victorians: each area page covers what that town’s walls are made of and what their repairs cost.
Tell us what the wall is doing. We’ll tell you what it costs.
Photos help: text the crack, the belly, or the stain with your call, tell us roughly what year the house is, and the quote comes off the published table.