Drywall Repair & Patching
Water damage, cracks and holes, texture-matched into the surrounding wall.
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Drywall Contractor in Toronto
Condo units, semis and pre-war houses across Toronto. We work to the building’s rules, book the service elevator, and keep the dust out of the corridor.
Toronto is really two different jobs wearing the same name. A good share of what we do here is inside a condo unit, where the drywall is the easy part and the building is the hard part. The rest is in the older houses east and west of downtown, where the walls are not drywall at all.
In a condo, the work itself is straightforward: patching a ceiling after a leak from the unit above, taking out a wall, building a bulkhead, repainting the unit. What takes planning is everything around it. Property management usually wants a certificate of insurance before you go on the schedule, the service elevator is booked as a window rather than a day, and the corridor outside your door is shared space that has to stay clean.
In a pre-war house in Riverdale, Leslieville, the Annex or the Beaches, the original walls are plaster over wood lath and they sit proud of modern board. Patching one with half-inch drywall and walking away leaves a visible step across the wall. That is a taping and mudding problem more than a hanging problem, and it is the most common thing we are called in to correct on somebody else’s work.
Every quote is free, and we will tell you at the visit whether your job needs a permit.
Condo Work
Working in a Toronto Condo: What the Building Will Ask For
The drywall in a condo is no harder than the drywall in a house. Everything that makes a condo job different happens before a single sheet comes off the truck.
- Certificate of insurance
- Most property managers want proof of liability insurance naming the corporation before they will put you on the calendar. We carry it and send it ahead, and that is usually what decides whether a job starts this week or next month.
- The service elevator
- Booked in advance, padded, and yours for a set window rather than the whole day. Everything that needs to come up has to come up inside that window, so the material list is finalised before the booking rather than after it.
- Board length
- Twelve-foot sheets do not fit in most residential elevators. That means eight-foot board, which means more butt joints, which are the hardest seams to hide. Worth knowing because it changes how the finishing is done, not just how the material arrives.
- Permitted work hours
- Most condo declarations restrict noisy work to weekday daytime hours. Screwing and sanding both fall inside that. It is the main reason a condo job takes more calendar days than the identical job in a house.
- Dust containment
- Poly at the entry and containment inside the unit. The corridor is shared, and drywall dust tracked into it is the fastest way to get a complaint filed against your job.
- Parking and the loading dock
- Confirmed before the first day rather than discovered on it. Downtown, this is often the detail that sets the start date.
None of this is difficult. It is just a list, and a contractor who has not worked through it before is a contractor whose start date is going to move.
What We Do Most in Toronto
- Water damage repairCeilings and walls patched after a leak from above, then taped, skimmed and textured to match the surrounding surface.
- Wall removal and bulkheadsOpenings closed up or opened out, and bulkheads built around new ductwork or a dropped ceiling.
- Plaster-to-drywall patchingRepairs in older houses brought level with the surrounding plaster instead of left as a step.
- Popcorn ceiling removalScraped, skimmed flat and repainted. Common in older midtown apartments and 1970s buildings.
- Full unit repaintPrep, prime and two coats, scheduled around the hours your building permits.
- Level 5 finishA full skim coat where wide windows and pot lights rake light along a long wall.
How a Toronto Job Runs
- Quote on siteWe look at the actual wall rather than a photo. In a condo we also check the elevator situation and where material can be staged.
- Paperwork to the buildingCertificate of insurance and any contractor forms go to property management, and the elevator is booked before we commit to a date.
- Contain before anything elsePoly at the entry and floor protection down before a single board comes out, because here the corridor and the neighbours are part of the job.
- Work the building’s hoursNoisy work inside the permitted window and quieter finishing outside it, so the schedule we give you is one that survives contact with the building.
- Clean handoverDust out, protection lifted, and the corridor left the way we found it.
Recent Work
Ceiling and Taping Photos
Photos are from jobs across our service area. We have not labelled them by city, because we would rather show you the work than claim a postcode.
Ceiling Seam Sanding
Vaulted Ceiling Taping
Ceiling Access
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Services We Run Most in Toronto
Interior & Exterior Painting
Prep, prime and two coats for a durable, even finish.
Learn More about Interior & Exterior Painting →Popcorn Ceiling Removal
Scraped, skim-coated and repainted for a flat modern ceiling.
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Toronto Drywall FAQs
Yes, and it is a large share of what we do. The drywall is the simple part. We carry the certificate of insurance property management will ask for, book the service elevator, and work inside the hours your building allows.
Because most condo declarations restrict noisy work to weekday daytime hours, and material can only move through the service elevator in a booked window. The hands-on time is the same. The calendar time is longer, and anyone telling you otherwise has not read the building’s rules.
Yes. Plaster over wood lath is normal in pre-war Toronto houses, and it sits proud of modern half-inch board. The repair is to build the patch up to the surrounding thickness and feather it out wide, so there is no step across the wall when light hits it at an angle.
Straight repair or replacement of drywall does not normally need one. Moving or removing a wall, or building a bedroom in a basement, generally does. We will tell you which side of that line your job falls on at the quote, and we will not start work that should have been permitted.
Poly at the entry, containment around the work area, and a clean-down before we leave each day rather than at the end of the job. In a condo it matters more than usual, because the corridor is shared and the complaint goes to the building rather than to you.