Drywall is the most visible surface in a house and the one most people never think about until it cracks. In Houston it cracks more than most places, and the reason is under the building rather than in the wall.
Service
Drywall Installation and Repair in Houston, TX
Hang, finish, texture and repair, including the seasonal cracks that Houston's clay soil leaves above every other doorway.
What We Do
New Installation
Hanging and finishing on remodels, additions and new construction. Correct fastener spacing, proper seam placement away from door and window corners where stress concentrates, and moisture-resistant board in wet areas. Finish level is specified up front, because a wall destined for a flat sheen and raking light needs more finishing than one getting texture and eggshell.
Crack and Nail Pop Repair
The routine maintenance of any slab-on-grade Houston home. Diagonal cracks running from door and window corners, horizontal cracks at ceiling joints, and nail pops appearing in rows across a ceiling. We repair them properly, meaning tape and multiple coats rather than a smear of compound that reopens with the next dry season.
Texture Matching
Orange peel, knockdown, skip trowel and hand textures, matched to what is already on your walls. This is the skill that decides whether a repair vanishes or announces itself, and it is why we sample before committing.
Popcorn Ceiling Removal
Common in homes across the FM 1960 corridor, Spring Branch and the older west side. If the texture predates the early 1980s, it gets tested for asbestos before anyone touches it. Clean removal is followed by skim coating or a new texture, and it changes the feel of a room more than most homeowners expect.
Water Damage Repair
After a roof leak, a supply line failure or a freeze event. The rule is simple and non-negotiable: the source gets fixed and the cavity gets verified dry before anything closes up. Our plumbing crew handles the source when it is a pipe, so there is no gap between trades while the wall sits open.
Why Houston Is Hard on Drywall
Soil movement
The expansive clay under most of the metro swells with rain and shrinks in drought, moving slabs enough to telegraph through finished walls. This is why the diagonal crack above your door is the single most common drywall complaint in this city, and why an honest contractor sometimes tells you to call an engineer instead.
Humidity in the finishing process
Joint compound dries by evaporation. When the air is already carrying moisture, each coat takes longer, and stacking coats too quickly produces shrinkage cracks along the seams a few months later.
Water events
Storms, roof failures and the February 2021 freeze all put water inside walls across the region. Rebuilding those walls correctly means treating the drying step as real work rather than a delay to skip.
Part of a Larger Job
Drywall rarely travels alone. It follows electrical and plumbing rough-in, and it precedes painting. Because those trades are all in house, the sequence runs without the waiting that happens when three companies are trying to coordinate calendars. See our process page for how a full project is scheduled.
Where We Work
Drywall installation and repair across Houston, Jersey Village, Cypress, Spring, Katy, Pearland and the rest of our service area.
Every detail matters. From the foundation to the finish, quality is never an accident.
- Years of experience
- 28+
- Trades under one contract
- 11
- Communities served
- 11
- Building since
- 1998
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Because the crack is a symptom of foundation movement, and patching it treats the drywall rather than the cause. Expansive clay soil across Houston swells and shrinks seasonally, which opens diagonal cracks above door and window corners. If a repaired crack reopens within a year, the honest next call is a foundation engineer, and we will tell you that instead of selling another patch.
Yes, and matching is the part that separates a real drywall finisher from a handyman with a bucket. Orange peel, knockdown and hand textures all take different tools and different mud consistency. A patch with the right texture disappears, while a patch with almost the right texture is more visible than bare drywall. We test the match on the repair before committing to the wall.
Ceiling texture applied before the early 1980s can contain asbestos, so testing before disturbing it is the safe path. Testing is inexpensive relative to the alternative. If the sample comes back positive, the removal belongs with a certified abatement contractor rather than a drywall crew, and we will tell you that plainly rather than sanding first.
Longer than the label suggests, which is why rushing a finish here produces cracked and shrunken joints. Each coat of joint compound has to dry fully before the next, and in humid conditions that stretches. A three-coat finish is normally a multi-day process, and any crew promising same-day finish and paint on new drywall is skipping a step.
Yes, but only after the source is fixed and the cavity is verifiably dry. Closing a wet wall traps moisture against framing and grows mold in this climate within days. We cut back to sound material, confirm the framing is dry, then hang, finish and texture to match. Insurance repairs are welcome and we will work from the adjuster's scope.
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Paint is 20 percent product and 80 percent preparation. On the Gulf Coast that ratio is not an exaggeration.
Wood & Tile Flooring
Over a Houston slab, the floor is decided before the first plank or tile goes down. Moisture testing and substrate prep are the job.
Electrical
Panels, circuits, lighting and rough-in for remodeled space, permitted and inspected rather than quietly done.
Get It Looked At
Cracks that keep coming back mean something. So do stains on a ceiling. We will tell you which is cosmetic and which is not.
Monday - Friday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM | Saturday: 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM | Sunday: Closed | Holidays: Closed