922 N 3rd St, Harrisburg, PA, 17102
Nights and weekends where the space has to trade, dust walls and zipped doorways instead of a closed floor, and invoices with the unit or the suite named on them.
You end up with the space back on the date you were given, and an invoice that matches the scope you signed.
Harrisburg Drywall Pros is a drywall contractor in Harrisburg running three crews, and around a third of the book is commercial and managed property. Offices, retail units, restaurants, medical suites and apartment buildings, booked by date rather than by conversation.
The work is hanging and finishing partitions in office and retail buildouts, turning apartments around between tenants, punch-out after leaks, break-ins and fire, and rated assemblies where a wall or a ceiling has to hold a fire rating. Type X board and the joint and penetration detailing that goes with it are what make a rated assembly worth anything, so the sheet and the assembly reference are named on the quote and your inspector has something to check rather than a promise.
What is the smallest commercial job worth booking? One apartment patched and primed between tenants is, and so is a whole floor of offices hung and taped to a turnover date for a general contractor.
Send the drawings or the scope to (717) 555-0164 and ask for a fixed date. You will stop building slack into the schedule for a trade that goes quiet on you and start closing the wall out on the day you planned!
The work is the same as it is in a house. The hours, the paperwork and who signs it off are not.
A homeowner asks how long it takes and how dusty it gets. A property manager asks whether the certificate of insurance names the building, whether a crew can badge in at six, and what happens when a tenant calls about noise at nine.
A general contractor asks how many days the wall sits on the critical path and who is there to close out the punch list after the inspector has been. Those are the questions this page answers.
We work to a schedule rather than to a general week, we send the certificate with the building named on it before the first day, and we invoice per unit or per suite so nobody is splitting one number across six leases.
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 RepairThree 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 quoteBoard 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
FAQs
Questions contractors and managers ask before booking us
Yes, and a good share of the retail and restaurant work runs that way. Say so when you book, because it changes the crew and the rate rather than being something we absorb quietly. Sanding is the part that most often has to happen after hours, and we can split a job so only that stage falls outside trading time.
Yes. We carry general liability and the certificate goes out with the quote, with the building or the managing agent added as certificate holder when that is asked for. It is a two-day turnaround from our broker, so ask early rather than on the morning the crew is due to badge in.
However the property runs. We work from keys and a unit list on apartment turnarounds, and we badge in and out where a building requires it. Give us the access rules with the scope and we will build them into the schedule rather than discovering them at seven on the first morning.
Usually. A temporary dust wall with a zip door closes off the working area, negative air pulls the dust back into it where that matters, and the route in and out is covered. Tenants keep their doors, their exits and their lifts. It costs setup time, which is on the quote as its own line.
Yes, and we detail them properly. Type X board, the right fixings and spacings, joints and penetrations firestopped, and the assembly reference named on the quote so the inspector can check what was specified against what is on the wall. A rated wall with an unsealed penetration in it is not a rated wall.
Two to three weeks for planned work, and less when a date is already in a schedule we have seen. Tell us the sequence rather than only the start date, because the trade before us is the one that usually moves. We will say honestly whether a date is possible instead of taking it and then calling you.
We tell you what it does to the date the same day we find out, rather than absorbing it and quietly missing the turnover. Where a partial start is possible we will take it and phase the rest. What we will not do is board a wall the electrician has not finished behind, because it comes back out again.
Per unit, per suite or per phase, itemized to match the scope you signed, and on the terms agreed before the start rather than the ones printed on an invoice afterwards. Progress billing on a long job is normal. Anything outside the scope is quoted and agreed in writing before the crew does it.
Yes, and it is a regular part of the book. We work from a key list, quote per unit so your accounts do not have to split a lump sum, and send photographs at the end of each unit rather than expecting somebody to walk an empty apartment before the next tenant signs.
The same foreman who ran the job, and usually within the same week. Send the list with photographs and we will book a date back rather than argue item by item over email. Small items get done on one visit; anything we disagree with we will come and look at with you instead of writing about it.
Yes, and a good part of the managed property book is exactly that. We quote in the detail an adjuster expects, itemized by room with photographs and moisture readings where water is involved, and we will talk to them directly. What we will not do is trim a scope to fit a settlement figure.
We frame partitions, soffits, bulkheads and headers in timber and light gauge steel, and we board and finish them. Structural work and anything wanting an engineer is not ours and we will say so at the walkthrough. Where another trade is framing, we will tell you what we need from them before we board it.
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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