Cost of drywall repair, after rewiring?

[Bienes Raices]

I know this is a very general question, but I'm looking for a general idea...

The house is small--2 bedrooms, 1 bath, 1 gar. I had an electrician come out and do an estimate for the rewire, which did not include drywall repair. He said the drywall repair would probably be "way under $1000" since they would be going through the attic mostly to do the wiring. I just wanted to doublecheck here about whether this is realistic?

[Eric D.]

If your electrician does it right, he will just need to cut out sections between the studs from the ceiling to the outlets/switches. In which case it will just be patching up those sections which isn't a lot of work. The hard part is getting the texture to match with the old (assuming the walls are textured)

It can be done without cutting any drywall if the box is easy to remove and you have no cross brace framing between those studs.

Another (best) option: If it has existing wiring, he can pull the new wire thru by attaching it to the old wire and pulling it down.