100 Pearl St, 14th Floor, Hartford, CT, 06103
Hartford Drywall Pros
Night and weekend shifts booked in advance, a foreman who signs in at reception every morning, and dust barriers up before the first sheet is moved.
You get the space handed back on the morning you were promised it, with the barriers down and the floor swept.
Hartford Drywall Pros is a drywall contractor in Hartford with four crews, working for general contractors, property managers and business owners since 2007. Commercial work is booked by the shift, and a date held four weeks out is a date we keep.
Office buildouts, retail units turned round between tenants, restaurant and medical build outs, corridors and common areas in apartment buildings, and rated assemblies where a wall separates one tenancy from the next. Rated work is built to the tested assembly rather than to a thickness, so the board, the fixing centers and the firestopping match the UL number on the drawing, because an inspector checks the assembly and not the intention behind it.
Is one corridor worth your time? A property manager with a single damaged common hallway to patch is a two day job we will take, and the largest last year was a thirty thousand square foot office buildout for a general contractor, hung floor by floor.
Send the drawings or call for a free take off at (860) 847-8709. You will stop building your schedule around a subcontractor who might not show and start giving your client a date you believe!
The work is the same as a house. The paperwork, the hours and the sign off are not.
A homeowner wants to know how much dust there will be. You want to know whether the crew is on site at six, whether the certificate of insurance names your entity as additional insured, and whether the invoice will match the schedule of values you already sent your client. Those are different questions and this page is the answer to them. We take a scope off drawings rather than off a walk round, we come back inside a day of the take off with whether the date on your schedule is one we can hold, and where a job is phased each area is signed off before the next barrier goes up.
For anybody standing in front of bare studs, whether that is an addition you have just had framed, a basement you are finally finishing, or a wall the electrician opened three weeks ago and left. People choose this over a general contractor's own crew because the framing gets straightened before the board is ordered, and that one step is what decides whether the finished wall looks flat.
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For anybody living with damage they have stopped seeing, a tenant with a walk-through booked, or a landlord turning a unit around between lets. People pick this over a handyman because a patch backed on four edges and taped in paper stays flat, while a hole filled from a tub comes back as a visible ring inside a year and shows in every photograph after that.
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For anybody whose repair is invisible in flat light and obvious in the evening, and for landlords who want one pattern through a building so the next patch is not a guessing game. People choose this over a painter with a hopper because the match is settled on a dried sample board, held against the wall in the light of the room, before the compressor is ever switched on.
Learn more about Texture and Finishing
For anybody standing under a ceiling that has started to bulge, crack or shed, and for anybody tired of the popcorn texture in every room upstairs. People pick this over a general contractor's crew because the joists get strapped level before any board goes up, and that one step is what decides whether a ceiling reads flat under a window's side light or shows every joint in it.
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For anybody who has just found a brown ring over the stairs, a ceiling gone soft after February, or a bathroom that has been leaking into the room below for longer than anyone admits. People call us rather than a general restoration outfit because the meter goes into the framing before the board goes on, and that is what decides whether the repair holds or comes back next winter.
Learn more about Water Damage RepairThree to seven days on site for most jobs, and the dust and the noise are done inside the first two.
Call and we will come out, look at the actual wall and tell you what it needs.
Get a free quoteSquare footage is the smallest part of a drywall price. What the wall already is, what has to come off it first and how good the finish has to look under your own lights account for most of the rest.
Which of these apply to your job is settled on the visit rather than on the phone, and the quote says which ones we found. Get a free quote
The foreman on your job, by name and by mobile, from the first morning to the sign off. The owner does the take off and the pricing and is on site weekly on anything running more than two weeks. You will not be routed through an office that has to call somebody else to answer you.
Poly screens with zip doors at every opening, floor protection out into the corridor, and a negative air machine venting the work area so air moves in rather than out. Sanding is scheduled for the quietest shift available. Adjacent tenants get told which nights are the noisy ones.
You or your general contractor does, because the permit follows the overall scope rather than the drywall. We give you what the application needs from our side, including the assemblies we are building and the product data for them, and we work to the inspection dates once they are set.
Yes. We sign your subcontract, provide conditional waivers with each application and unconditional ones on payment, and we hold retainage on the terms in the contract. Send the documents with the drawings and anything we cannot agree to comes back marked before the job is booked.
We firestop the head of wall, the joints and any penetration we make. Penetrations made by other trades through our walls are theirs to seal, and we say so at the pre-construction meeting rather than at the inspection, because an unsealed sleeve fails a wall somebody else built.
Two to four weeks for a booked start, and we will hold a date that far out once a scope is agreed. For punch-out work in a building you manage, a small crew can usually be on site within a week. Emergency work after a flood or a break in gets looked at the same day.
Yes, and the sample goes up on the wall before the repair does. Corridors in buildings from the seventies and eighties are usually orange peel or a light knockdown, and a matched patch in a hallway with wall washers on it needs the spray pressure set from a sample, not from memory.
Yes, that is most tenant improvement work. What we ask for is a written change rather than a conversation on site, priced before it is built, so nothing turns up on the final invoice that you have not already seen. Layout changes after board is up are quoted as their own line.
Whichever you prefer, and it is worth settling before the first delivery. Board scrap and old material fill a container faster than most trades expect, so on a strip out we normally bring a trailer and take it away rather than fill a shared dumpster the whole site is using.
Yes, and it is a real cost worth naming early. Tiles come out and go back, the grid gets protected, and rated walls carried above a grid are slower to build and to firestop. Where a wall only needs to run to the underside of the grid, say so, because that is a different price.
Everyone on site holds an OSHA 10 and the foremen hold an OSHA 30. Copies go into your site file at mobilization along with the certificate of insurance and the workers compensation certificate. If your building or your client needs a specific orientation, we will send people to it.
We are back on site the next working day to correct it and we carry the cost where the work was ours. Most failures on rated walls are penetrations sealed by somebody else or a missing firestop detail at the deck, which is why we photograph the head of wall before the ceiling goes in.
Small repairs start inside two weeks, no matter how far out the big jobs are booked.
Hartford Drywall Pros hangs, tapes, finishes and repairs walls and ceilings across Hartford, in houses that range from new construction to pre-1940 plaster over lath. Four crews finish about two hundred and forty jobs a year, and a small repair usually starts inside two weeks even while a whole floor is booked further out. Trading here since 2007.
What nineteen years in Hartford's oldest houses taught us
If a wall has gone soft after a storm, an old ceiling needs opening up, or a room needs drywall from scratch, call (860) 847-8709 and somebody will come and look at it. We will tell you on that visit whether it is board or lath and plaster behind the surface, and the written quote follows the visit, never before it.
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100 Pearl St, 14th Floor, Hartford, CT, 06103
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