100 Pearl St, 14th Floor, Hartford, CT, 06103
Hartford Drywall Pros
One room sealed at a time, the dusty day named before it arrives, and the furniture back where it was before anybody leaves.
You get the room back clean, in the number of days you were told, without having to move out to get it.
Hartford Drywall Pros is a drywall contractor in Hartford, and most of what four crews do is inside houses people are still sleeping in. Around two hundred and forty jobs a year, and a single room usually books about two weeks out.
One room is three to five days, a ceiling is two days and a drying day, and a whole floor is two to three weeks. Only one of those days is a dusty one and you are told which on the first morning. The room is sealed with a zip door and a fan in the window pulling air out of the house rather than through it, and the flat surfaces are sanded with a vacuum sander and the edges by hand, which is what keeps the dust in that room instead of on the stairs and in the hall.
Do we have to move out? Almost nobody does. A family with one ceiling coming down loses that room for a week and keeps the rest of the house, and the only people we tell to book a few nights elsewhere are those doing a whole floor with a baby or somebody asthmatic in the house.
Call for a free visit at (860) 847-8709. You will stop planning your week around the mess you are dreading and start counting the days until you get the room back!
The work takes three days. Living around it is the part nobody else quotes for.
A contractor wants a schedule and a certificate. You want to know whether you can cook, where the children are sleeping, whether the dog can be let out and what the house looks like on Friday night. So the answers here are about the house rather than about the wall. We work eight to four thirty on weekdays and nobody runs a sander after four. One room is sealed at a time and the rest of the house stays yours. The stairs and the hallway are covered and swept every evening rather than at the end of the job, and the day before the sanding you are told, because that is the one worth planning around.
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.
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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
Yes, from any room but the one we are in. Hanging and screwing is the noisy part and it is loud enough to be heard through a wall, so if you take calls all day it is worth knowing that those are the first two mornings. Taping and coating days are quiet enough to work through.
Behind a shut door in another part of the house, or out for the day if they are the sort that will push through plastic sheeting. We prop the front door open while board is coming in, which is the moment cats leave, so tell us on the first morning that there is one and we will watch for it.
Power yes, water usually, and the bathroom only if you offer it. Compound is mixed with water and the buckets get washed out, so we ask for an outside tap or a utility sink rather than a kitchen one. We bring our own leads and we will not run everything off a single old circuit.
Not while the ceiling is open above it, and that is usually two days rather than a week. We sheet the counters and the units the whole time, seal the room at the end of each day and leave the kettle somewhere else in the house. Most people plan the takeaways around those two evenings.
No. Plenty of our customers give us a key or a code and go to work, and we lock up and text at the end of each day. What we do ask for is somebody available on the phone, because these houses throw up questions that are better answered in ten seconds than guessed at.
The first two days. Screwing board off is a constant high pitched noise, cutting is louder still and taking an old ceiling down is the loudest thing we do. After that it goes quiet, because taping and coating are almost silent. Nobody works before eight or runs a sander after four.
For the sanding day, yes, and it is worth booking that one night out. The room is sealed and vented outside and we use a vacuum sander on the flats, which keeps most of it contained, but gypsum dust is fine enough that no barrier is perfect. Tell us at the quote and we will schedule it.
Occasionally, on a job that has to fit around a family who are all out during the week. It has to be agreed at the quote rather than asked for halfway through, because crews are booked weeks ahead. Compound needs its drying time either way, so a weekend does not make it faster.
The same afternoon we finish. Primer is touch dry in a couple of hours and the room is vacuumed before we take the sheeting off, so the furniture comes back off the middle of the floor that day. What you should wait for is the painter, because putting it all back twice is nobody's idea of a good week.
You hear about it the hour we find it, standing in the room, with what it does to the finish date. Old fire damage, buried openings and pipework in the wrong bay all turn up in these houses. Most of them cost half a day. The ones that cost more get priced before anybody carries on.
Please. Anything on the walls, anything on the windows and anything breakable is better out of the room before the first morning, because sheeting stops dust and not ladders. Everything else, including the heavy furniture, we move to the middle and sheet ourselves on day one.
Vacuumed, primed white and empty of our things, with the furniture back where it started. We walk the room with you before anybody leaves and mark anything you are not happy with, because the time to fix a joint is while a crew is still in your driveway with the compound open.
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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