1630 1st Ave N, Ste B, Fargo, ND, 58102
Poly walls and a zip door up before a knife comes out, sanded with vacuum heads because no window opens in January, and the floor vacuumed before you get it back.
You end up getting the room back swept, primed and usable, with the rest of the house no dustier than it was on the Monday.
Fargo Drywall Elite has worked in occupied houses across Fargo and the valley since 2009, which is the large majority of a hundred and eighty jobs a year. Three crews, all of them used to families, dogs, and somebody taking calls in the next room.
Most of it is one or two rooms at a time in a house that carries on around them. Basements, ceilings after an ice dam, repairs before a sale, and texture matched into rooms nobody is moving out of. The room is sealed with poly and a zip door and run under a negative air machine, the furnace return in it is taped off and a fresh filter goes on the system on the way out. Sanding is done with vacuum-assisted heads rather than by opening a window, which in February is not an option here.
How much of the house do we lose? Less than people expect. A morning of nail pops costs you one bedroom until lunchtime, and a main floor of ceilings means living upstairs for four days. Everything between the two is one closed door at a time.
Call for a free measure at (701) 555-0132 and say which rooms you cannot lose. You will go from putting off a job for three winters because of what it will do to the house to booking it for two weeks on Tuesday!
The work is the same as it is on a building site. Everything around it is different because you are still living here.
On a site nobody minds dust and nothing has to be put back at five o'clock. In your house both of those are the job. A room gets sealed off with poly and a zip door before any board moves, and a negative air machine keeps what is in there in there.
The return air register in that room is taped over, because a forced air system will otherwise take drywall dust and post it into every other room in the house, and a new filter goes on the furnace when the crew leaves.
Sanding is done with vacuum-assisted heads, since the usual fix of opening a window is not available here from November to April. Tools come off the floor every evening and the room is left safe to walk through.
Services
For anybody who has framing up and needs it turned into a room. Homeowners finishing a basement, contractors adding on, and builders handing over spec houses. What makes people pick it is that one crew hangs, tapes, sands and primes, so there is nobody to blame when a joint shows and nothing waiting on another trade's calendar between the sheets going up and the painter arriving.
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For anybody looking at one wall and wondering whether it is worth a call. Homeowners with a list from an agent, landlords between tenants, and people patching after a plumber. What makes them pick it is that the repair is taped rather than filled and the texture is matched off a sample board first, so the patch does not reappear as a pale flat rectangle the first sunny afternoon.
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For anybody whose new work has to disappear into old work. Homeowners after a repair, builders specifying Level 5 before a painter, and people taking a popcorn ceiling off after forty years. What makes them pick it is the sample board. The pattern gets proved against your own wall in your own light before a gun is loaded, rather than being matched by eye and argued about afterwards.
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For anybody whose problem is above their head rather than in front of them. Homeowners watching a ceiling drop between the joists, builders wanting ceilings hung ahead of the walls, and people boxing in ducting after a basement plan changed. What makes them pick it is that the joists are strapped into a plane first, which is what decides whether a ceiling reads flat under a light.
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For anybody looking at a wall that got wet and wondering how much of it has to go. Homeowners after a spring crest, landlords after a burst line, and people whose ceiling has come up in a brown ring. What makes them pick it is the meter. The framing has to read dry and the reading is written down and dated before a single sheet of board goes back on the wall.
Learn more about Water Damage RepairThree to seven days on site for most houses, and the dust is over inside the first two.
Call and you will get a straight answer about how many days the room is out of use, before anybody quotes on it.
Get a free quoteTwo rooms the same size can quote a long way apart, and it is almost never the board that does it. Access, finish level and what the last crew left behind move the number further than floor area does.
Which of these apply to your job is settled on the visit rather than on the phone, and the written scope says which ones did. Get a free quote
FAQs
What people ask about having a crew in the house
On site between seven thirty and eight, and packed up by four thirty. If that does not work with a baby's nap or a night shift, say so at the measure and the start time moves. What we will not do is show up at seven without asking, and nobody works a Sunday in a house unless you have asked for it.
Plenty of people leave a key or a code and go to work, and that is completely normal. What we need is a way in, a way to lock up, and a phone that gets answered if something behind the wall turns out to be different from what everybody expected. The house gets locked and the code is not written down.
Tell us at the measure and we work to it. A zip door is not a dog barrier, so the practical answer is usually a closed door between the animal and the work, or the dog out for the sanding days. Compound is not toxic but the dust is unpleasant for them and worse for a cat that grooms it off its paws.
Yes. The containment and the negative air are what make that true, and the room next door is normally fine even on a sanding day. The one room to think about is the one directly under a ceiling job, because vibration and footfall overhead carry through a floor far more than dust does.
No, and in a Fargo winter it obviously cannot be. What happens instead is the return air register in the work room gets taped over so the system stops pulling dust into the ducting, and a new filter goes on when we finish. Ask for the filter size at the measure and we will bring one.
Joint compound has almost no smell, and what people notice is a faint damp plaster smell for a day or two while it dries. Primer is the strong one. That goes on at the end, usually a low odour PVA, and the room wants a few hours before anybody sleeps in it. Say if somebody in the house is sensitive.
We move what is in the room, either into the middle under sheeting or out to the next room, and it goes back at the end. Anything heavy, fragile or worth real money is better moved by you before we arrive, and anything on the walls comes down. Tell us at the measure if a piece cannot be moved at all.
Hardboard or ram board taped at the seams over anything hard, and a run of it from the door to the room so nothing is walked over bare. Carpet gets film. Original wood floors get a conversation first, because staging feet and a heavy board stack need boards under them rather than just a sheet.
Corners get protection before anything is carried past them, and doorway jambs get taped. It is worth saying that twelve foot sheets do not turn a landing, so on an upstairs job the sheets either get cut or come in through a window. That gets settled at the measure rather than on the delivery morning.
The room is vacuumed rather than swept, because a broom puts the fine dust straight back into the air. Scrap and old board leave on the truck the same day, the protection comes up, and the floor goes back to being a floor. You will still find a film on high surfaces two rooms away for a week.
Yes, and it happens more often than you would think. A room can be left at a coated stage safely for as long as you need, with the containment either left up or taken down. What it costs is the slot, so restarting is whenever the crew next has a gap rather than the following Monday.
Yes, if we know which hours matter. Screw guns, a sanding vacuum and a negative air machine are the loud parts, and all three can be scheduled into blocks rather than run all day. Tell us at the measure when your calls are and the noisy work goes around them.
The book runs three to four weeks out, and a leaking ceiling jumps to the front of it.
Fargo Drywall Elite hangs, tapes, finishes and textures board across Fargo and the Red River Valley towns around it, in houses, additions and commercial units alike. Three crews finish around a hundred and eighty jobs a year, working through winters most trades slow down for. Trading here since 2009.
Why a crew that knows a Fargo winter makes the difference
If a ceiling is staining after the melt, a wall needs drywall from scratch, or a room just needs finishing off, call (701) 555-0132 and somebody will come out and measure it. You get the scope in writing before any board is cut, and the schedule accounts for the drying time a Fargo winter actually needs.
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1630 1st Ave N, Ste B, Fargo, ND, 58102
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