Spokane Drywall Pros
Drywall Installation in Spokane, WA
Board hung on new framing, taped, finished and textured by the same crew — with the finish level agreed room by room before the first sheet goes up.
What has to be right before the tape goes on
You get a house hung true, taped tight and finished to the level you chose, ready for paint the day we finish.
This is board going onto new framing — new builds, additions, basements, garages and any room that has been opened up and reframed. Board already on the wall that has cracked or been wet is drywall repair, one page across.
We board around fifty-five houses, additions and light commercial units a year across the county, from a single added bedroom to a forty-unit build-out.
Most of it is new construction and additions, then basements and garages finished for the first time, then remodels where walls have moved and the framing is new again. We hang, tape, finish and texture as one job rather than three. Ceilings go up in five-eighths board and any wall that takes raking light is finished to Level 5 — the whole surface skimmed, not just the joints and screws — so nothing shows when the sun comes across it.
Builders booking the phase between the insulation inspection and the painter, and homeowners finishing a basement who want the board hung and taped properly before they take the rest on themselves.
Call for a free estimate at (509) 357-5705. You will go from putting the drawings off until you know what the walls are going to cost, to booking a painter for a date.
What a drywall job covers, studs to paint-ready
Bare studs to a wall the painter can start on, as one job with one crew.
- Hanging board on new framing and joists
- Five-eighths board to ceilings and rated assemblies
- Taping and finishing to Level 4 or Level 5
- Corner bead, archways and bulkhead returns
- Texture sprayed to match the rest of the house
- Soffits, drops and stairwell staging
- Scrap, buckets and dust taken away with us
The board, the tape and the compound we hang a house with
Every sheet on your walls is specified by room before the truck is loaded.
Half-inch board goes on the walls and five-eighths on every ceiling, whatever the joist spacing allows, because half-inch sags between joists at twenty-four inches once it has taken up any moisture and no amount of finishing corrects it afterwards. Moisture-resistant board goes into bathrooms and laundries, and Type X wherever a rated assembly is specified — a garage ceiling under living space, or a party wall.
Screws are set to spec rather than to the gun's clutch, and every external corner takes metal-reinforced bead rather than paper alone. Paper tape is bedded in setting compound and finished in lightweight, which is what keeps a joint from opening in the first dry winter.
- 1/2" board to walls, 5/8" to every ceiling
- Type X where a rated assembly is specified
- Moisture-resistant board to baths and laundries
- Screws to spec, 12" ceilings, 16" walls
- Paper tape bedded in setting compound
- Metal-reinforced bead on external corners
Ask your other two quotes what thickness is going on your ceilings, then call us and we will walk the framing for free.
(509) 357-5705Why two houses the same size board out differently
Board and tape starts as a price per square foot and stops being one the moment the house stops being a set of plain rectangles.
- Sheet count and ceiling height
- Board goes on by the sheet, so the count is the first number. Anything over nine feet needs staging before a sheet moves and two people on every board after that, which is time rather than material.
- How cut up the rooms are
- A long plain wall is quick. Small rooms full of doors, windows and returns take more cutting, more bead and more coating per square foot than a great room twice their size does.
- The finish level you choose
- Level 4 coats the joints and the screws. Level 5 skims the whole surface, which is another coat and another sand across every wall it applies to, and it earns its money only where the light will show it.
- Ceilings, vaults and stairwells
- Ceilings are hung overhead in five-eighths, which is heavier and slower than anything on a wall. A vault or an open stairwell adds staging, and staging goes up and comes down whatever the room measures.
- How true the framing is
- Framing out of plane has to be shimmed or planed before a sheet touches it. That is half a day on a good house and two on a bad one, and it is the thing most often found rather than quoted.
- What is booked behind you
- A house where the painter starts the day we finish runs in one block. A job we have to come back to for a second phase carries a second mobilization, which is the same crew driving out twice.
Which of these apply to your house is a ten-minute question once somebody is standing in it, and the answer comes back as a written price. Get a free quote
From your call to a swept floor, in six steps
Three to six days on site, and most of the noise is over in the first two.
Call for a free look at the framing and we will tell you what it takes to hang and when we could start.
Get a free quoteWhat a properly hung house is worth later
Nobody buys a house for its drywall. They walk away from one because of it.
There is no resale figure for drywall the way there is for a kitchen, and anybody quoting one has made it up. What there is, on nearly every inspection report written in Spokane, is a line about the condition of the walls and ceilings — because a cracked ceiling or a texture that stops halfway across a wall reads to a buyer as a roof that has leaked, whether or not it ever has.
That is the half no report can price and the half you control. Board hung true and finished to one consistent level through the whole house is invisible, and invisible is the point: nothing for an inspector to write up, nothing for a buyer to stand and look at, and no conversation about a stain that was only a stain.
Hanging drywall in Spokane: what the air and the framing do
New framing dries hard and moves as it goes, compound sets ahead of the bag time, and ceilings carry snow load above them — three things that change how a board job is specced.
- New framing here dries out hard
- Lumber closed into a house through a winter here gives up moisture fast in air this dry, and it moves as it goes. Screw pops and hairline corners in the first year are that rather than bad taping, which is why they are bedded and coated rather than cut out.
- Compound sets ahead of the bag time
- Semi-arid summers and dry winter heating pull water out of a joint faster than the label allows for. Coats are mixed smaller and timed to the room rather than to the clock, because a bedding coat rushed in that air cracks by spring.
- Ceilings here carry a snow load above them
- Roof framing that deflects under snow puts every ceiling joint in tension across the winter. Five-eighths board, screws at twelve inches and a floated corner at the wall junction are what keep that movement out of the finish below it.
Walls and ceilings we have finished around Spokane
New work we have hung and finished, with the town each job went into. Every one was hung, taped and textured by our own crews.
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Two-story addition hung
South Hill
Framing signed off on the Friday and hung the following Tuesday, then finished to Level 5 on the wall the stair light crosses.
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Basement finished from bare studs
Spokane Valley
Nine hundred square feet of storage turned into two bedrooms and a den, hung, taped and knockdown textured to match the floor above.
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Vaulted great room hung
Liberty Lake
Staging up before a sheet moved, and the ceiling hung from the ridge down so no joint landed where the west light rakes across it.
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Garage ceiling to a fire rating
Cheney
Type X to the ceiling under a bonus room, taped and finished flat, with the inspection booked before the board went on rather than after it.
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Forty-unit build-out on schedule
Airway Heights
Hung and taped a floor at a time so the painters could follow two units behind us, and nobody waited on anybody for six weeks.
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Bedroom addition over a garage
Mead
Five-eighths to the ceiling, half-inch to the walls, and a Level 5 skim on the gable end because that is the wall the morning sun crosses.
What people said after the board went up
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Rated 5 out of 5
Hung between the inspection and the painter and neither date moved. The stair wall is flawless.
Ellen K. South Hill Drywall Installation -
Rated 5 out of 5
Basement went from studs to painted in three weeks. They told me at the start which day the sanding fell on and that it was worth being out of the house for it, which turned out to be true.
Ron M. Spokane Valley Drywall Installation -
Rated 5 out of 5
Got three quotes and these were the only ones who said five-eighths on the ceilings and why. The other two had priced half-inch and had not mentioned it at all.
Teresa H. Liberty Lake Drywall Installation
Every one of these started with a look at the room and a price. Yours can start the same way.
Get a free quoteQuestions people ask before a house is hung
Does the price include the taping and the texture?
Yes. Board, tape, finish and texture are quoted as one job, because splitting them is how people end up with a hung wall and no one booked to finish it. What is not in it is paint, and the quote says so rather than leaving you to notice.
Can you start before the insulation is inspected?
No, and nobody reputable will. Board over uninspected insulation and it comes back off at your expense. We book from the inspection date rather than the framing date for exactly that reason, and we would rather move you back a week than board a wall twice.
How long between the board going up and it being paintable?
Hanging is fast and finishing is not. A normal house is hung in two or three days, then taped and coated over the following week, with drying time between each coat. Spokane air is dry enough that compound sets ahead of the bag time, which shortens it but is not something to plan a painter around.
Do you install the insulation as well?
No, and it is worth knowing where the line falls. Insulation is a separate trade and it has to be inspected before we can cover it, so on most jobs somebody else is in ahead of us. We will tell you who we have worked with, and we book our start from the inspection date rather than from theirs.
Do you charge for the estimate?
No. Somebody comes out, measures the room, counts the sheets and looks at what is behind the board, and you get a written price from that. A number given over the phone without any of it is a guess that gets revised once we are standing in the room, which helps nobody.
Do we take the old plaster off or board over the top?
It depends on what the plaster is still holding onto. Around Browne's Addition and the lower South Hill most of it is plaster on wood lath, and where the keys have let go there is nothing behind it to screw to, so it comes off. Where it is sound and flat, drywall over it and keep the trim reveals.
Can you hang board before the windows go in?
We would rather not, and on a winter job we will say no. Board that gets rained or blown on before the building is closed swells at the edges and the paper lifts, which does not dry back out. Once the openings are glazed and the roof is on, the house is ready for us whatever else is unfinished.
Do you hang board on steel studs?
Yes, and most of our light commercial work is on steel. It takes fine-thread screws rather than coarse, and the sheet has to be run in the direction the framing was designed for, which is the thing most often got wrong by crews who mostly hang on wood. Tell us at the measure and it is priced accordingly.
What is the worst day for us to be in the house?
Sanding day. Hanging is loud but contained and coating is quiet. Sanding puts fine dust into every room the taped doorways do not stop, and it is the one day worth being out of the house if anybody in it has a chest. We tell you which day it falls on at the start, not on the morning.
Where do the sheets go while you work?
Stacked flat in the room they are going into, or the nearest one that will take them. Board is heavy, and stood on edge for days it bows, so we deliver close to the day rather than dropping it a week ahead. We agree where at the measure, along with where the truck can park.
Can you work in winter with the house shut up?
Yes, and most of our repair work is winter work. The house being closed and heated actually dries compound faster, so coats are mixed smaller and timed to the room. What we do need is somewhere to vent the sanding, which is a window and twenty minutes rather than an open front door.
What happens if the framing moves as the house dries?
New lumber gives up moisture for a year after it is closed in, and screw pops and hairlines at the corners are what that looks like. They are refixed, bedded and coated rather than cut out. Call us when you see them rather than living with them. What is covered and for how long is set out on your quote.
Spokane Drywall Pros
One crew is kept off the schedule all year, for the ceiling that drops on a Tuesday.
Spokane Drywall Pros hangs, tapes, finishes and textures board across Spokane and the towns out to the county line. New construction and additions, repairs after a leak, popcorn ceilings taken down, and whole houses hung to a turnover date. Four crews, a little over two hundred jobs a year, residential and commercial alike.
Why people call us rather than the next name on the list
- Twelve years hanging drywall in this valley, since 2014
- The measure is free and the quote names the board and the finish level
- One crew held back for repairs, so a small job is not queued behind a build
- Dry air here sets compound early, and the schedule is built around that
- The room is swept, vacuumed and handed back before the van leaves
If you have a wall that has cracked, a ceiling that has started to sag or a room that needs drywall from scratch, call (509) 357-5705 and somebody will come and look at it. You get a written price off the measurements rather than a number guessed over the phone, and if a patch will do the job we will tell you so.
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304 W Pacific Ave, Ste 210, Spokane, WA, 99201
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