922 N 3rd St, Harrisburg, PA, 17102
Three crews working out of Harrisburg, rooms sealed and zipped before a sheet is cut, and every joint checked under a work light held flat to the wall.
The drywall in your Harrisburg house ends up flat enough that a low winter sun crosses it without finding a seam or a screw.
Harrisburg Drywall Pros is a drywall contractor based in Harrisburg, working both sides of the river from Camp Hill and Lemoyne out to Hershey. A hundred and ninety jobs a year since 2012, and new work is booked two to three weeks out.
Most of the year is drywall installation, new board and whole reboards. Under it comes drywall repair on cracked and knocked-through walls, then texture and finishing to match knockdown or old plaster, ceilings including popcorn removal, and water damage repair after a wet basement.
Joints follow ASTM C840, which asks for 50 degrees for 48 hours before compound goes on and while it dries. Compound that dries cold bonds weakly, and the tape edge cracks out inside a year.
How small a drywall job is worth calling about? The smallest drywall job worth a call is one cracked bedroom ceiling for a Midtown landlord, and the largest is fourteen units in Middletown boarded and finished to a builder's dates.
Harrisburg Drywall Pros covers drywall in Harrisburg, Camp Hill, Mechanicsburg and Hershey, so ask for a free measure at (717) 555-0164. Somebody comes out, measures the room and leaves you a written quote naming the finish level.
Dave and Sandra Kreider
Founders and owners
Who we are
We have boarded, taped and finished houses on both sides of the river since 2012, three crews working out of Harrisburg. Fourteen years on, the job comes down to what is behind the wall and how flat the finish has to be.
We sound the plaster and look at the lath before putting a number on anything, and the quote names Level 4 or Level 5 room by room. A flooded basement or a burst pipe gets looked at ahead of the ordinary line.
Services
For anyone building something new or opening a wall right back. Basements and garages turned into rooms, additions hung between the electrician and the painter, and old rowhouse rooms taken to the studs and done properly. People pick this over a patch when the wall is coming out anyway, or when they want the stud bay filled and the services made accessible while it is the cheap moment to do it.
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For anyone living with one thing they keep meaning to sort out, and for landlords turning a unit around on a date. A doorknob hole, a crack that opens every spring, a wall of nail pops, or a ceiling that has started to sound hollow. People pick this rather than a full reboard because the wall around the damage is still sound and there is no reason to lose the room for a week.
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For anyone who can see the wall rather than the room. Somebody repainting and tired of the knockdown, somebody whose repair is invisible until the sun comes round, or a builder who needs a whole house taped to a date. People pick this when the board itself is fine and it is the surface that is letting the room down, and when they want to see a sample before anybody commits.
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For anybody whose ceiling has started to announce itself. Popcorn that dates the whole house, a lid bowing away from the lath in an old rowhouse, or an attic room to board out. People pick this when the walls are fine and the problem is above them, and when they want the texture gone rather than drywalled over and left for somebody else to find.
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For anybody standing in a room that has been wet, wondering how much of it has to come out. A basement after the river, a ceiling ringed after a February thaw, or a pipe that split in January and ran when it thawed. People call this rather than a repair because the wall is still holding water, and because an insurer wants readings and photographs rather than an opinion.
Learn more about Water Damage RepairHalf-inch board on walls, five-eighths on ceilings, Type X where a rating is called for, named per room on the quote.
Walls take half-inch board and ceilings take five-eighths, which is what keeps a lid from sagging between joists on twenty-four-inch centers.
Bathrooms and laundry rooms get a mold-resistant board, and a garage ceiling under living space gets Type X where the code asks for a rating. Flat seams are taped with paper rather than mesh, then run in three coats of setting compound and finished in all-purpose.
Finish levels follow ASTM C840, and Level 4 or Level 5 is written against each room on the quote instead of being argued about at the end. Corner bead is metal anywhere it can be knocked and paper-faced on curves and arches.
Call and somebody will come and look at the wall, say which of these your job actually needs, and put the answer in writing.
(717) 555-0164The Susquehanna still reaches Shipoke basements, older stock is plaster on lath rather than board, and freeze and thaw open cracks at the same door heads each spring.
Rated 5 out of 5
Tenant moved out and left four holes and a kicked-in closet door. Patched, matched and primed in a day and a half. I had the keys back on the Thursday.
Rated 5 out of 5
A plumber cut a two foot strip out of our kitchen ceiling to reach a leaking supply line and left it open. They hung new board and matched the texture, and I cannot find the line from the table now.
Rated 5 out of 5
Water came up through the basement floor after the August storm and I thought it was a mop and a fan job. They cut the board back higher than I wanted and ran the fans four extra days. No smell since.
Call and ask for a couple of addresses near you where we finished a job this year.
Get a free quoteSix jobs finished in the last year, each one with the town it was in. Every picture is our own work, handed back and being lived in.
Whole-house reboard after flooding
Shipoke
River water to eighteen inches. Board cut back to four feet, cavities dried for a week, then rehung off the floor with the bottom edge held clear.
Plaster ceiling swapped for board
Midtown
A sagging lath ceiling in a rowhouse front room, taken down and rehung in five-eighths. Existing crown molding worked around rather than lost.
Popcorn ceilings taken off
Colonial Park
Three bedrooms and a hall in a 1960s ranch. Ceilings scraped, skimmed to Level 5 and primed, with the loft insulation left undisturbed above.
Basement finished to Level 4
Mechanicsburg
A family room and utility built out from bare block. Mold-resistant board on the wet side, and the bottom track set an inch off the slab.
Fourteen units hung and taped
Middletown
A builder's schedule with two units handed over each week. Hung, taped and finished to Level 4 throughout, priming included per unit.
Knockdown texture matched
Camp Hill
A stairwell wall opened for wiring, then patched and retextured. Sample boards knocked down and compared on the wall before committing.
A free measure, and a straight answer about what is behind it.
Board itself is cheap and the labor around it is not, so what actually moves a quote is access, what is already on the wall, and how flat you want the finish to end up.
Which of these apply to your job is settled on the visit rather than on the phone, and the quote names the ones we found. Get a free quote
Drywall is the trade a buyer notices immediately and can never quite name.
There is no honest figure to put here. Remodeling Magazine's Cost vs. Value report prices kitchens, baths, decks and siding for the Middle Atlantic region, and it has never priced drywall as a line item, because it is nearly always inside another job. Anybody quoting a percentage return on a skim coat has invented it.
What does hold value is which of your own decisions get made properly. A ceiling rebuilt after a leak rather than painted over, a Level 5 finish in the room with the biggest window, and a cut line above the flood mark in a basement, so the next inch of water costs a patch instead of a wall.
Three to five days on site for a typical room, and the loud, dusty half of it is finished in the first two.
Call and we will book the look, usually inside the same week, so you know what the job involves before you commit to it.
Get a free quoteSince 2012 this crew has boarded houses on both sides of the river, from Camp Hill and Lemoyne out to Hershey. One contract covers the delivery, the hanging, the tape, the coats and the sanding. The person who quoted the job is the one who walks it with you at the end, and nothing is passed to a second outfit part way through.
Call (717) 555-0164 or send the form and somebody comes out to measure at no charge. The finish level and the coat count go into the quote in writing rather than into an assumption.
Drywall service area
We work out of Harrisburg and cover roughly twenty-five miles from it, which takes in the East Shore, the West Shore towns and out as far as Carlisle.
Primary service area
Harrisburg, PA
Harrisburg Drywall Pros 922 N 3rd St, Harrisburg, PA, 17102 (717) 555-0164Also serving
If your town is not on the list it is probably still a yes. Call and ask, and you will be told straight whether it is worth the trip.
FAQs
Questions people ask before they book us
Yes, general liability and workers compensation cover, and we will send the certificate before the first day rather than after you ask twice. Property managers and landlords usually want it on file, so it goes out with the quote as a matter of course.
Less than you are picturing, but not none. Sanding is the dusty part and it lasts a day or two per room; doorways get zipped, floors get covered and cutting is done outside when the weather allows. Expect a fine film on anything left in the room, which is why we ask you to clear it.
Almost always, yes. One room at a time is normal and people live around it, though a whole-floor reboard is easier on everybody if you are out for the two sanding days. We do not turn off water or power without warning you first.
Yes, it goes with us. Lath and old plaster are heavy and a rowhouse job can fill a truck twice over, so removal and tipping are priced into the quote rather than left as a surprise. Nothing gets stacked in your yard waiting for a second trip.
We finish and prime, and we do not paint. A primed Level 4 or Level 5 wall is what a decorator wants to be handed, and pretending otherwise means two trades arguing about whose mark is on the wall. We will tell you what the surface needs and when it is ready.
Level 4 coats the joints, screws and beads and leaves the board face bare between them. Level 5 adds a thin skim over the whole face so the wall is one surface. Level 4 is fine under matt paint or texture; a big window and a satin paint will find every seam without Level 5.
Two to three weeks for planned work, and we hold slack in the diary for water damage, so a burst pipe or a flooded basement gets looked at within a day or two. If a date matters, say so on the first call and we will tell you honestly whether it is possible.
Yes, and it is a large part of what we do each spring. The first job is not board, it is getting the wet material out and the cavity dried, which usually means cutting the board back above the waterline and leaving it open for several days with air moving through it.
Power, yes, from an ordinary outlet. Water for a bucket and clean-up, yes. Parking is the real question on the older streets, so tell us about permits or a narrow alley before the day, because carrying sheets an extra hundred yards is time somebody is paying for.
Call us and we will come and look. A crack returning through a taped joint usually means the framing behind it is moving, not that the tape failed, so the fix is at the joint rather than another coat of filler. We would rather see it than have you live with it.
On a flat painted wall, invisible once it is primed and painted. On a textured wall or old plaster it depends on how well the texture can be matched, and we will tell you before starting whether a patch will disappear or whether the whole wall wants skimming.
Yes, and a good share of the book is turnarounds between tenants. That work runs on dates rather than on conversations, so we quote per unit, take keys, and send photographs at the end rather than expecting somebody to come and stand in an empty apartment.
Flood and burst-pipe damage moves ahead of the ordinary line, no matter what else is booked.
Harrisburg Drywall Pros hangs, tapes, finishes and repairs board across Harrisburg and the river towns nearby, in rowhouses with plaster on lath as often as new construction. Three crews finish around a hundred and ninety jobs a year, and flood or burst-pipe damage is fitted in ahead of the ordinary line. Trading here since 2012.
Why the river towns call Harrisburg Drywall Pros first
If the river has left a stain on a lower wall, an old ceiling needs opening up, or a room needs drywall from scratch, call (717) 555-0164 and somebody will come and look at it. The written quote follows the visit, broken down room by room, and nothing gets added to it later without you agreeing first.
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