Drywall
Hanging, taping, and finishing drywall — new walls, ceilings, patches, and texture matching.
Drywall turns framing into rooms. Hanging goes quickly; taping and finishing decide how the wall looks once paint and side light hit it. Board type varies by location — moisture-resistant at wet walls, fire-rated at garage and mechanical separations — and patch work carries the extra problem of matching a texture that already exists.
What the work involves
- Hanging board on walls and ceilings, seams staggered and fasteners set to depth
- Moisture-resistant board and cement board at tubs, showers, and wet walls
- Fire-rated assemblies where the code requires separation
- Taping: bedding the tape, then fill and topping coats
- Corner bead — metal, paper-faced, and bullnose — at outside corners
- Sanding to a finish level appropriate to the light in the room
- Patching openings left by demolition, plumbing, and electrical work
- Texture application, and matching existing texture at the patch edges
Questions
- Why do patches show after painting?
- Texture and absorption. A patch with a different surface texture catches light differently, and unprimed compound takes paint at a different rate than the wall around it. Feathering the compound wide, matching the texture, and priming the patch are what make it disappear.
- What is a drywall finish level?
- A standard describing how much taping and sanding a surface receives. Higher levels mean wider, smoother joints, used where side light or gloss paint would reveal them. A room with large windows or a flush ceiling needs a higher level than a closet does.
- Which board belongs in a bathroom?
- Moisture-resistant board on the walls outside the shower, and cement or foam backer board with a waterproofing membrane inside it. Standard drywall behind tile in a wet area fails eventually, however good the tile work is.
Where Frasch Construction does this work
Rockford and Wright County, the Lake Minnetonka belt, the west metro, Minneapolis and St. Paul — 82 towns.
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