Drywall repair and installation in Northeast Portland.

Northeast Portland has a lot of older houses that people buy and remodel. Typical projects are kitchens opened up in Irvington foursquares, primary suites built over Beaumont garages, back bedrooms added to Alberta cottages, and Grant Park attics turned from storage for holiday boxes into finished rooms. Each of those projects ends the same way. Someone has to hang, tape, and finish the drywall so the new space matches the rest of the house.

This is the step people tend to underestimate. The framing, wiring, and insulation go in, and then the drywall has to join a hundred-year-old house to a brand-new room with no visible line between them. The old plaster next to the new board is never perfectly flat, so the joint compound has to be feathered, meaning spread out wide and thin until the two surfaces meet evenly. Tape alone will not do it. We hang and finish the new walls and ceilings, work the new surface into the existing plaster or drywall, and match the texture across the seam so the addition does not look tacked on. Drywall repair is in our name, but in Northeast Portland installation and finishing are just as big a part of the work.

• Remodel drywall installation: new walls and ceilings hung, taped, and finished for additions, attic and basement conversions, and full renovations.
• Plaster repair for the lath and plaster that is still behind the walls of most pre-war NE homes.
• Drywall repair for holes, cracks, and nail pops anywhere in the house.
• Texture matching so new remodel drywall blends in with the finish of an older craftsman or bungalow.

Northeast homes were built over many decades. Most of the core neighborhoods went up between the 1900s and the 1930s, including Irvington (most of its homes date from the 1910s and 1920s), the edge of Alameda, Beaumont-Wilshire, Grant Park, and the bungalow blocks off Alberta and out toward Hollywood. Those houses have lath and plaster on the original walls and hand-troweled texture on many ceilings, and most have had earlier remodels of mixed quality. A repair here often means redoing someone else's mismatched patch as well as fixing the original damage. You can usually spot a rushed 1990s patch from across the room. We work with what the house has. Where the walls are plaster we repair plaster, where a past remodel put in drywall we repair drywall, and we match the finish either way. Our bungalow and craftsman work shows what the finished result looks like.

The Drywall Repair Co. is a service-area business, so we come to you. There is no walk-in shop in Northeast Portland. For a repair, send photos and your ZIP code. Our reply is a written estimate that includes a timeline, normally by the next business day. For a remodel or addition, send photos or plans of the space. We will work out the hanging and finishing with you and schedule it around the rest of your build.

We are licensed with the Oregon CCB under CCB# 263361, and we are bonded and insured. Remodel work and repairs both come with a written workmanship warranty.