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Basements, additions, garages, and gut remodels boarded from open framing and taken to paint-ready. Panel type is decided room by room — moisture-resistant where humidity lives, Type X where the code requires a rated assembly — and the finish level is set before the first sheet goes up rather than argued about after.
Cracked seams, nail pops, doorknob holes, and damaged panels cut back, patched, textured, and primed. Recurring cracks get treated as a movement problem rather than a cosmetic one — filling the same seam a third time without asking why it keeps opening is how it opens a fourth.
Sagging, stained, or cracked ceilings patched or reboarded after a check of the framing and fasteners overhead. Ceilings get looked at from twenty feet away in flat light, which is exactly the condition that shows a texture mismatch, so matching happens on scrap before it happens overhead.
Board removed, replaced, and refinished once a leak, seepage event, or backup has been stopped and the cavity is dry. Finding where the moisture stopped travelling matters more than matching the stain, since gypsum draws water upward past anything visible. Plumbing work and mold remediation are handled by other trades.
Taping, coating, and sanding brought to the finish level the room actually needs. Level 4 covers most walls under flat or eggshell paint. Level 5 is a full skim coat, and it earns its cost in rooms with big west-facing windows or a light washing down a wall at a low angle.
Orange peel, knockdown, and smooth finishes sprayed new or matched into existing work. Because most of Madison's housing was built in the drywall era, texture matching is the everyday job here rather than the exception — and matching means sampling the original and testing it, not eyeballing the spray pressure.
Texture scraped, the ceiling reskimmed or reboarded, and a smooth or light knockdown finish applied. Ceilings in anything built before the mid-1980s are tested for asbestos before a scraper touches them. That test comes first, every time, and it sets the schedule.
Plaster patched and skim-coated where it's sound, converted to board where the lath has failed. This is the near-east-side job — the bungalows off Williamson Street and around Tenney-Lapham where original plaster is still on the wall and needs to be blended into any new board rather than butted against it.
Tape bedded into a wet first coat, corner bead set true, then fill and finish coats feathered wider each pass. Compound is chosen by stage rather than convenience — adhesion where tape has to hold, sandability on the coats that get seen — and every coat dries through before the next one goes on.
Walls and ceilings taken out and reboarded when patching has stopped paying. Repeated repairs that no longer sit flat, board softened by a basement water event, or a ceiling that has taken a permanent set. Covers removal, disposal, framing inspection and finishing back into the surrounding surface.
Lower-level walls and ceilings framed, boarded and finished with the below-grade decisions settled first. Foam against the foundation, framing held off the concrete, unfaced cavity insulation, and moisture-resistant panel — which matters more on the isthmus than almost anywhere in Dane County.
Office, lab, clinic, and retail drywall built to requirements residential work never sees: fire-rated assemblies, sound ratings between tenant suites, and finish schedules written into the project documents. Installation is sequenced against whatever the other trades have already been promised.
Corridor and ceiling damage in occupied space repaired around business hours instead of through them. Work can run after close or in phases so part of the floor stays open while the rest gets patched, textured, and primed.
Level 4 and Level 5 schedules taped, coated, and sanded to written spec for offices, labs, and retail build-outs. Where the documents name a finish level, that's what the wall gets — a spec is a number, not a suggestion about how smooth is smooth enough.
Interior partitions, office improvements, and retail build-outs framed and finished to a general contractor's schedule. Coordinated around electrical, mechanical, and fire-suppression rough-in so drywall isn't the trade that pushes the inspection date.
Light-gauge steel partitions framed and boarded for commercial interiors. Gauge is selected for wall height rather than habit, deflection is detailed where a partition meets a moving deck, and rated assemblies are built to the listed detail instead of approximated on site.
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