141 Traction St, Greenville, SC, 29611
Four crews working across the Upstate, most jobs starting inside two to three weeks, and every coat given the days a Carolina summer actually needs.
Light across a wall finds nothing to catch on, and the drywall in your Greenville house still reads flat after the first summer.
Greenville Drywall Elite is a drywall contractor in Greenville, trading since 2013 and running four crews across Greer, Simpsonville, Taylors and the towns between them. New jobs go in the book two to three weeks out.
Drywall installation is the bulk of it, whole houses and additions boarded from bare framing. Under that sit drywall repair, texture and finishing with knockdown matched off a test board, ceilings taken back from popcorn and skimmed flat, and water damage repair that starts with a meter.
Every surface is finished to a level named on the GA-214 scale before the first coat goes on, so a hallway does not show every joint by four in the afternoon.
Is a single patched corner enough drywall work to book a crew for? The smallest drywall job here is one doorway corner a mover clipped, phoned in by a homeowner, and the largest is a forty unit building hung to a general contractor's turnover date.
Call Greenville Drywall Elite at (864) 555-0119 for a free drywall measure in Greenville, Greer, Simpsonville or Taylors. Somebody comes out, measures the board and what is behind it, and leaves you holding an itemized quote.
Wes and Carolyn Tolbert
Founders and owners
Who we are
We have hung and finished board across Greenville and the Upstate since 2013, four crews out of one yard. Thirteen years on, the job still comes down to the finish level agreed in writing and the days a coat needs.
The visit and the measure cost nothing, and the quote comes back itemized so you can see what each line buys. We put a light in the crawl space before blaming a stain on the wall, and we time coats to the weather.
Services
For anybody who has framing standing and nothing on it yet. Builders come here with a spec house and a closing date, and homeowners come here with an attic, a garage or an addition that has reached the point where it needs walls. What people pick it for is the part before the board goes up, which is the string line across the studs and an honest answer about whether the lumber is dry enough to cover.
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For anybody looking at damage they have stopped seeing and a buyer would notice immediately. Landlords call between tenants, homeowners call the week before family arrive, and people call after a mover has clipped a corner. What makes people pick it is the texture matching, because that is the part that decides whether a repair reads as a repair or as a wall.
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For anybody looking at a wall where one patch of texture does not match the rest, and for anybody tired of knockdown in every room. Plumbers leave a stripe of fresh mud behind them, builders need a new house to match the four either side, and owners of nineties houses want the walls flat. What people pick it for is the test board, sprayed and drawn in front of you before anything goes near your wall.
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For anybody who has stopped looking up. Owners of 1960s and 1970s ranches call when the popcorn has to go before a house is listed, and landlords call when a ceiling has started to bow between the joists over somebody's bed. What people pick it for is the mess, or rather the handling of it. The room is sealed, the texture comes off wet instead of as dust, and the waste is bagged and gone the same day.
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For anybody standing under a stain that was not there last week, and for anybody with a wall that gives under a thumb. Homeowners call the morning after a storm, and landlords call when a tenant reports a bulge under a bathroom. What people pick it for is the meter. The wall goes back on two readings a day apart rather than on somebody's opinion that it feels dry, and the numbers come to you in writing.
Learn more about Water Damage RepairHalf inch on walls, five eighths on ceilings, Type X where code calls for it, mold resistant board in every bath.
Walls take half inch board and ceilings take five eighths, because half inch sags between joists at twenty four inch centers and that sag shows as a wave the first time somebody puts a lamp under it.
Type X goes on any garage ceiling with living space above and on the party wall of an attached unit. Every bathroom and laundry gets mold resistant board, not because code always demands it but because a Greenville bath sits above eighty percent humidity for months.
Flat seams are taped in paper rather than mesh, which is stronger across a joint and will not telegraph a crack. Outside corners take metal bead, bedded and screwed, so it does not pop when green framing moves through its first summer.
Ask the other two quotes which board is going on your ceilings, then call and we will tell you ours.
(864) 555-0119Compound gives up its water slowly in a Carolina July, the damp comes from a crawl space rather than a basement, and mill houses move. Three things that change the job.
Rated 5 out of 5
Screw pops all over the upstairs of a 2022 build. They pulled the board back where the framing had moved rather than just filling them. None have come back.
Rated 5 out of 5
Garage into an office, and the boarding was the part I dreaded. August air meant the coats wanted two extra days, and they told me that on day one rather than at the end. It reads like a real room now.
Rated 5 out of 5
The house is from 1986 and every ceiling had popcorn. My realtor said leave it alone. Wes put a light up there and showed me the ripples underneath, so we did the den first to see. Flat now.
Reviews are easy to write and hard to check, so ask us for a finished job near you and go and look at it.
Get a free quoteSix jobs finished in the last year, each one in a town the crews actually drive to. The constraint is named on every card, because that is the part that made the job what it was.
Whole house board and finish
Five Forks
Thirty two hundred square feet of new construction hung and finished to Level 4, with Level 5 in the two rooms that take afternoon light down a long wall.
Ceiling replaced after a roof leak
Taylors
A bedroom ceiling came down in a July storm. Framing was dried and read with a meter for four days before any new board went up over it.
Popcorn removed, ceilings skimmed
Augusta Road
Popcorn off five rooms in an occupied 1950s house, skimmed flat and primed, with the family staying in the two bedrooms at the back throughout.
Knockdown match on a hall repair
Simpsonville
A stairwell wall opened up for a plumbing repair. The texture was matched off a test board sprayed and knocked three times before anybody touched the wall.
Garage hung and fire rated
Mauldin
Type X to the ceiling and the common wall under a bonus room, taped and finished to Level 3 ready for the owner to roll two coats himself.
Bonus room over a garage
Travelers Rest
An unfinished attic space hung, insulated and finished, with the sloped ceiling furred down flat because the rafters had bowed a full inch.
A free measure at the house, and a finish level named in the quote.
Two rooms of the same size can quote a long way apart. What separates them is what sits behind the old surface and how good the finish has to be, and neither is visible from a doorway.
Which of these actually apply to your job gets settled on the visit rather than on the phone, and it is written down before anybody starts. Get a free quote
Drywall is the one thing a buyer sees in every room and never once thinks about when it is right.
No published remodeling study prices drywall as a line item. The Cost vs Value report from Remodeling magazine measures whole projects, and the board and tape inside a South Atlantic bath remodel is buried in the project figure. Anybody quoting a percentage return on drywall has made it up.
What holds value is decided by you rather than by the market. A finish level agreed in writing, mold resistant board in the wet rooms, and a crawl space problem fixed before the wall goes back are the three that still look right five years out. A skim coat over a wet stud bay is not, and it is the first place a buyer's inspector puts a moisture meter.
Three to seven days on site for most rooms, and the dusty half of it is done inside the first two.
Tell us which room it is and somebody comes out and measures it, free, and puts the days on paper before you commit to anything.
Get a free quoteFour crews have worked Greenville, Greer, Simpsonville and Taylors since 2013, and one of them takes a job from bare framing to a wall the painter can start on. The board order, the hanging, the tape, the coats and the sanding are all in the same contract. Each coat is given the days a Carolina summer actually needs rather than the days a schedule would like.
Call (864) 555-0119 or fill in the form for a free measure. The finish level, the coat count and what happens when the weather slows a coat are all written into the quote.
Drywall service area
Four crews run out of one yard in the Upstate, which puts most of it inside about twenty five minutes. Anything in that circle gets a measure visit the same week.
Primary service area
Greenville, SC
Greenville Drywall Elite 141 Traction St, Greenville, SC, 29611 (864) 555-0119Also serving
If your town is not on this list it is probably still a short drive. Call and ask rather than assuming the answer is no.
FAQs
Questions people ask before a crew gets booked
Yes, and it is common in the older neighborhoods. Plaster over lath can be skimmed if it is sound, or stripped back and hung if it is drummy and letting go in sheets. We tap the whole wall first and tell you which of the two it is, because the answer changes the days on site more than it changes the material.
Not for the whole job. Somebody needs to be there to let the crew in on the first morning and to walk the finished room at the end. In between, most customers leave a key or a code, and the crew works to the scope that was written down rather than asking questions through the day.
Less than you are picturing, because the sanders run on vacuum hoses and the doorways get zipped in plastic. Fine dust still finds its way past that, so anything that cannot be moved out gets sheeted, and the room is vacuumed rather than swept at the end.
We prime, and we stop there. A primer coat is part of the finish because it is what shows up any last flaw while the sander is still on site. Topcoat colors, trim and cutting in are a painter's work, and we will give you two names locally rather than pretend it is ours.
Until the compound is dry all the way through, which in July here is usually three or four days after the last coat rather than the day after. Paint over compound that is still damp underneath and it flashes, meaning the joints show through the finish as dull stripes in raking light.
Call us and we come and look at it. Most first year cracks are the framing settling rather than the tape failing, and they are a cut, a re-tape and a texture match, which is half a day. What we do not do is argue about whose fault it is on the phone before anybody has seen it.
Green board is fine on the walls of a bathroom and it is not enough behind tile in a wet area. Anything inside a shower or a tub surround takes cement board or a foam backer, because moisture resistant paper still soaks eventually. We board the wet area in one and the rest of the room in the other.
You can, and it usually costs you more than it saves. Board is bought by the pallet at trade rates and delivered by boom to the floor it is needed on, so a homeowner buying twenty sheets pays retail and then pays a crew to carry them upstairs. It also puts any defect in the sheets on you.
A truck and a trailer need about two car lengths on the street or the driveway for the delivery morning only, after which the trailer goes. Sheets come in through the widest door, and twelve footers sometimes come through a window opening on a new-construction house. We check both on the measure visit.
Regularly. We write the scope in the format an adjuster expects, photograph what was behind the wall before it is covered, and give you moisture readings with dates on them. We work for you rather than for the carrier, so if the settlement is short of the real scope you will hear that from us.
It depends almost entirely on the texture. A flat or a light orange peel ceiling patches invisibly, so there is no reason to touch the rest. Heavy knockdown from the eighties and nineties rarely matches across a seam, and on those the honest answer is often to skim the whole ceiling and retexture it.
We do, and the tear out is in the quote rather than added afterwards. Old board goes straight into the trailer as it comes off, which is why the demolition day is the day we ask for the parking. If you would rather strip it yourself to save the labor, say so before the quote is written.
The book runs two to three weeks ahead, so most rooms start inside the month.
Greenville Drywall Elite hangs, tapes, finishes and textures board across Greenville and the mill towns and new subdivisions around it, from crawl-space repairs to whole rooms hung from scratch. Four crews finish a little over two hundred and twenty jobs a year, residential and commercial alike. Trading here since 2013.
Why Greenville homeowners keep calling us back
If a baseboard is stained from the crawl space, a ceiling needs drywall, or a room needs finishing from scratch, call (864) 555-0119 and somebody will come out and measure it for free. The quote is itemized so you can see what each part of the job costs, and the coats are timed to the weather rather than rushed.
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141 Traction St, Greenville, SC, 29611
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