Nail pops and screw pops in Manchester, NH
The bumps that come back every winter
Little circular bumps in a line, sometimes with the paint cracked in a ring around them, running vertically down a wall or across a ceiling. They are fasteners pushing back out through the surface, and in this climate they are a winter phenomenon: as framing lumber dries and shrinks around a screw that stays put, the wood moves back and the screw head ends up proud of it.
Why re-filling them does not work
The usual response is to knock the bump flat, skim over it and repaint, which lasts until the next heating season because the fastener is still loose in wood that is going to keep moving. The repair that holds drives the original fastener back below the surface, adds a new screw an inch or two away where it can bite into sound timber, and treats the pair as one repair. Then it is filled, built up and sanded.
Doing a whole room at once
Pops arrive in families. If you can see four you almost certainly have fifteen, most of them only visible when the afternoon sun comes across the wall at a low angle. Walking a room with a lamp held against the surface and marking every one takes ten minutes and turns a series of irritating little call-outs into a single tidy job — usually cheaper than two separate visits.
When it is a sign of something else
Fasteners popping in a straight line along a ceiling near an outside wall, rather than scattered, can be truss uplift: the roof structure bowing upward in cold weather and lifting the ceiling away from the wall below. That is repaired differently, with the ceiling edge deliberately left free to move rather than fixed hard to the wall, and it is worth identifying before somebody fills the same gap for the third year running.
Often turns up alongside
People dealing with Nail pops and screw pops usually also ask about our a hole in the wall service, professional cracks over doors and windows and a brown stain on the ceiling services — call and we'll tell you which one your job needs.
Towns we cover
We take this work across the Merrimack Valley, including drywall repair in Bedford, Goffstown drywall repair calls, serving Hooksett, drywall repair for Londonderry property owners, Derry, drywall repair in Auburn, Candia drywall repair calls, serving Merrimack, drywall repair for Litchfield property owners, Bow, drywall repair in Concord and Nashua drywall repair calls, and the surrounding communities.
Send a photo of it
A photo of the damage is usually enough for a number the same day.
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