Services
Six services, one outfit, one schedule.
Drywall is four separate jobs that get spoken about as one, acoustic ceilings are a fifth trade, and painting is usually a sixth outfit entirely. Buying them together is cheaper in coordination, faster on the calendar, and better in the finish — because nobody is inheriting somebody else's work.
Take the whole run or take one piece of it. Either way you are talking to the person doing it.
Hanging
Board cut and fixed to framing, laid out to keep joints away from door and window openings where movement concentrates and cracks start. Get this wrong and every step after it is a repair.
New construction drywall
Whole houses and additions, hung to the framing schedule.
Ceiling board
Flat and sloped ceilings, including high and vaulted work.
Basement and garage finishing
Bare studs to a finished, paintable room.
Soundproofing assemblies
Double layers, sound board and isolation where a room needs to be quiet.
Moisture-resistant board
Bathrooms, laundries and anywhere else water gets at a wall.
Board removal and disposal
Old wall out and off the site before the new one goes up.
Taping and finishing
Joints taped, bedded and coated to a chosen level — not a default. A wall taking raking light from a window needs more than one that does not, and choosing correctly is most of what separates a good wall from an expensive one.
Level 3 finish
For walls taking a heavy texture or a wall covering.
Level 4 finish
The usual choice for flat paint in a normally lit room.
Level 5 finish
A full skim coat, for gloss paint and for walls under raking light.
Skim coating
An old, patched or textured wall brought back to flat.
Corner bead
Metal, vinyl and bullnose, run so the corner stays true.
Sanding and dust control
Cut back clean, with the mess kept to the room it belongs in.
Texture and matching
Matching an existing texture so a repair disappears into the wall around it, rather than reading as a patch somebody painted over. The hardest part of the trade, and the one most often skipped.
Knockdown texture
Sprayed and flattened, the most common finish around here.
Orange peel texture
A fine spray finish for walls and ceilings.
Hand and swirl texture
Trowel-applied patterns, matched by hand.
Texture matching for repairs
An existing pattern read and reproduced so the patch vanishes.
Smoothing over texture
Textured walls or ceilings taken back to flat and modern.
Acoustic ceilings
Ceilings that manage sound as well as cover a room — grid and tile where access matters, and the quiet assemblies that go above them. Also the trade that takes a popcorn ceiling off without wrecking the wall it meets.
Suspended ceiling grid
Grid set level and square, for basements, offices and anywhere with services overhead.
Acoustic tile
Tile laid in, replaced or matched into an existing grid.
Popcorn ceiling removal
Acoustic texture taken off and the ceiling finished flat.
Sound-dampening ceilings
Assemblies built to stop a room above being heard in the room below.
Ceiling tile replacement
Water-stained or damaged tiles swapped without redoing the grid.
Access panels
Fitted where a valve or a junction has to stay reachable.
Painting
Primed and finished by the same hands that did the drywall. No handoff, no waiting on a second contractor, and no debate about whether the flaw is in the finish or the paint — because it is all ours.
Interior walls and ceilings
Cut in and rolled, in the sheen the room calls for.
Priming new drywall
The coat that decides whether the finish underneath shows.
Trim, doors and casing
Brushed and finished to the same standard as the walls.
Repaints and colour changes
An occupied room turned around without wrecking it.
Ceiling paint
Flat white or matched, sprayed or rolled as the ceiling needs.
Stain blocking
Water marks, smoke and knots sealed so they stay covered.
Repairs
Damage cut back to sound board and framing before anything is filled, then finished and painted through. Filling over a soft edge buys a season; doing it properly buys the life of the wall.
Water damage repair
Wet board out, the cause checked, the ceiling or wall rebuilt.
Settling and stress cracks
Cut, taped and finished so the crack does not walk back.
Nail and screw pops
Refastened properly rather than filled over.
Holes and knocks
Doorknobs, furniture and everything else that meets a wall too hard.
Corner bead damage
Dented and split beads cut out and re-run.
Ceiling patches
Fixture and access holes closed and textured to match.
Tape seam failure
Bubbled or peeling tape stripped back and redone.
Surfaces we work on
If your room is not on this list, it is still worth asking.
- Walls
- Flat ceilings
- Vaulted and sloped ceilings
- Basements
- Garages
- Stairwells
- Bathrooms and laundries
- Closets and pantries
- Soffits and bulkheads
- Attics and bonus rooms