Calgary Drywall Services · Calgary, Alberta
Holes, cracks, water damage, ceilings, basements and full renovations. Tell us about the job and a local drywall contractor will look at it and give you a free estimate.
Drywall services
Pick the page closest to your job for what is involved, what affects the price and what to mention in your request. Plenty of projects need more than one of these.
Dents, nail pops, cracked seams, damaged corners and patches that never looked right. Blended so the repair disappears under paint.
New drywall for renovations, additions, moved walls and rooms taken back to the studs, hung and fastened ready for finishing.
Doorknob holes, anchor and TV-mount holes, and the cracks that keep reappearing above doors and along ceilings.
Tape embedded in compound, then built up and feathered out coat by coat, so seams and screw heads stop showing.
Finish levels, skim coating over rough or patched walls, and sanding to a surface that is genuinely ready for paint.
Cracks, holes, stains and sagging sections in ceilings, including what to check before a textured ceiling is disturbed.
Boarding and finishing a basement development, from the decisions to make before the first sheet goes up.
Cutting out wet or stained drywall and rebuilding the area, after the leak itself has been found and fixed.
When a section, a whole wall or a ceiling is past patching and should be cut out and replaced instead.
Offices, retail bays and tenant improvements, with work planned around business hours and building rules.
Why homeowners use this service
Good drywall work is invisible. What people notice is the flashing seam, the halo around a patch or the crack that came back. Most of that is decided before the paint goes on.
Drywall prices depend on things a photo rarely shows: what is behind the wall, how the old finish was done, and how far a repair has to be blended. The estimate is based on the actual job.
A patch that is flat to the touch can still show as a bump or a halo once painted. The goal is a surface that disappears under primer and paint in normal light.
Every service page explains the work, the choices and what moves the price, so you know what you are asking for before anyone visits.
Your request is passed to one independent Calgary drywall contractor, not sold to a list. Read exactly how it works before you send anything.
Drywall repair
Most drywall damage is patched rather than replaced. The patch is the easy part; making it invisible is where the time goes.
Small dents and screw holes are filled and sanded. Anything bigger than a fist usually gets a new piece of drywall cut in and fastened to backing, then taped and built up over several coats. Cracks are opened up and re-taped rather than just filled, because filler alone tends to crack again along the same line.
If the damage came from water or from movement, the cause matters as much as the patch. See why some cracks keep coming back, what to do about water-damaged drywall and ceiling repairs.
Renovations and new drywall
New drywall is three trades in sequence: hanging, taping and finishing. Each one sets up the next, and shortcuts in the first show up in the last.
Sheets laid out to keep joints few and away from where light rakes across them, fastened on the right spacing, with clean cut-outs around boxes and openings. Good hanging makes finishing faster and flatter. Typical jobs: kitchen and bathroom renovations, moved or new walls, additions, and rooms opened to the studs.
Tape bedded in joint compound over every seam and inside corner, metal or paper bead on outside corners, then two or three more coats, each wider and thinner than the last. Rushing the drying time between coats is the most common reason seams shrink and show.
The final coats, sanding and, where needed, a skim coat over the whole surface, so walls look flat under side light and take paint evenly. The industry describes this as finish levels 0 to 5; most painted rooms are finished to level 4.
Many Calgary basements are developed years after the house is built. The drywall is the last step before paint, so framing, insulation, vapour barrier, wiring and any inspections should all be done before it goes up. Low ceilings, bulkheads and the stair all need planning.
Ceiling repair
Ceilings show every flaw under window light and are harder to work on, and damage there often points to something above.
A crack along a ceiling seam, a stain from an old leak, a hole from a light fixture that moved, or a section that has started to sag are all common ceiling repairs. A sagging or bulging ceiling is a warning sign, not a cosmetic problem: it can mean the drywall is wet or has pulled off its fasteners, and it should be looked at before anyone stands under it for long.
Textured ceilings in older homes may contain asbestos, so they should be tested before they are sanded or cut. The ceiling repair page covers cracks, leak damage, sagging and matching texture.
How estimates work
Straightforward, and the same whether it is one hole or a whole basement.
Use the form: what needs doing, where in Calgary, and anything you already know, such as a past leak or the size of the area.
They may ask for a photo or two, and arrange a time to see the work. Small repairs can sometimes be scoped from photos.
They check the damage or the space, what is behind it where that matters, and the finish around it, then give you a price for the work.
There is no obligation. If you go ahead, you agree scope, schedule and payment directly with the contractor.
The contractor, not this website, sets the price and does the work.
No honest price list survives contact with a real wall. These are the variables the contractor weighs.
| Factor | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Size and number of areas | Why it mattersOne patch, several spots across the house, or whole walls and ceilings. |
| Walls or ceilings | Why it mattersOverhead work is slower, needs more setup and shows flaws under light more readily. |
| What caused the damage | Why it mattersAn impact is straightforward; a leak, movement or failed old repair needs the cause dealt with. |
| Finish level | Why it mattersWhether the surface is taped for tile, finished for flat paint, or skim coated for critical light. |
| Texture and matching | Why it mattersKnockdown, orange peel and older textures take extra work to blend into. |
| Access and setup | Why it mattersStairwells, high ceilings, furnished rooms and protection for floors and belongings. |
Service area
Requests are welcome from every quadrant of Calgary, Alberta, from inner-city character homes to newer communities on the edges of the city. For a nearby town, enter it in the form and the contractor will confirm.
Older homes and newer builds tend to bring different requests: plaster-and-lath walls and textured ceilings in established neighbourhoods, and settling cracks, nail pops and basement developments in homes built in the last couple of decades.
Common questions
More detail on what drywall work costs and who does the work.
Free, no-obligation estimate
Tell us what needs doing. Your request goes to a local drywall contractor, who will contact you to ask any questions and arrange a look at the job.
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