Drywaller · Milton
Drywall & ceiling finishing
in Milton
Board, tape, Level 5 skim coats, popcorn removal and invisible repairs. Straightedge Drywall will contain the dust and hand it over ready for paint.
Serving Milton
Licence 7A-48103 · 10 years in the trade · Same day where we can
About
About Straightedge Drywall
Straightedge Drywall finishes drywall for people who will be living with it in raking afternoon light. That means straight framing, mesh where movement happens, three real coats, and sanding with vacuums instead of dust everywhere. We show up when we say, we protect your floors, and we would rather tell you a patch will show than hand you a wall you have to look at every day.
What we do
Drywall work in Milton
Board, tape, Level 5 skim coats, popcorn removal and invisible repairs. Straightedge Drywall will contain the dust and hand it over ready for paint.
Board, tape & finish
Hang, tape and finish new walls and ceilings for basements, additions and gut renovations, ready for primer the day we hand it over.
Level 5 smooth finish
The full skim coat that matters on flat paint, big open walls and any surface raking light hits — no visible joints, no photographing seams.
Popcorn & stipple ceiling removal
Scrape, skim and finish tired textured ceilings flat, with the room sealed and floors protected before anything gets wet.
Water damage & ceiling repair
Cut out what the leak ruined, replace the insulation behind it, and blend the new board into the old so the patch does not show.
Crack, nail-pop & hole repair
Doorway cracks, popped screws and the hole behind the doorknob repaired properly with mesh or a butterfly patch, not a smear of filler.
Texture & stipple matching
Match knockdown, orange peel or California knockdown on an existing ceiling so a repair does not turn into redoing the whole room.
Soundproofing & sound-rated walls
Resilient channel, damping compound and double board for home offices, bedrooms shared with a rental unit, and basement theatres.
Steel stud framing & bulkheads
Non-structural partitions, bulkheads and closets framed straight and plumb so the finish has a chance of looking right.
Questions
Asked and answered
- How much dust is this going to make?
- Less than you are picturing, if it is done right. We seal the work area with zip walls, mask doorways and vents, protect floors, and sand with HEPA-vacuum-assisted sanders instead of open pole sanding wherever we can. There will still be some fine dust — this is drywall — but you should not be finding it in the kitchen three rooms away.
- How soon can I paint?
- Compound needs to dry fully between coats, so a typical room is three visits over three to five days depending on humidity. Basements and winter jobs run slower. Rushing primer onto damp compound is how you get flashing and joints that show up a month later, so we would rather take the extra day.
- Why do the same cracks keep coming back?
- Because the crack is a symptom. Cracks that radiate from door and window corners are seasonal movement, and they need mesh tape and a wider float, not more filler. Long straight cracks along a ceiling can mean truss uplift, which needs a floating corner detail. We diagnose the cause first, otherwise you are just paying to repaint the same line every year.
- What is the difference between a Level 4 and a Level 5 finish?
- Level 4 finishes the joints and screws and is fine under most eggshell or satin paints and any texture. Level 5 adds a full skim coat over the entire surface. You want Level 5 on large flat walls, anywhere strong side light rakes across the surface, and under flat or dark paint — otherwise every joint quietly telegraphs through.
- Can you match my existing ceiling texture?
- Usually, yes — knockdown and orange peel we match on a test board first so you can approve it before it goes on the ceiling. Old sparkle stipple is the hard one, and sometimes a flat skim of the whole ceiling looks better than a patch that never quite disappears. We will tell you honestly which case you are in.
- Is my popcorn ceiling dangerous to remove?
- If the house was built or renovated before about 1990, get a sample tested before anyone scrapes it — textured ceilings of that era can contain asbestos. Testing is inexpensive. If it comes back positive, that becomes an abatement job for a licensed remediation contractor, not a drywall job, and we will say so rather than take the work.
Service area
Where we work
- Milton
Hours
- Monday
- 7 am – 5 pm
- Tuesday
- 7 am – 5 pm
- Wednesday
- 7 am – 5 pm
- Thursday
- 7 am – 5 pm
- Friday
- 7 am – 5 pm
- Saturday
- 8 am – 1 pm
- Sunday
- Closed
Book online
Pick a time that suits you
Choose a slot and we will confirm it. No account, no waiting on hold.
Contact
Tell us about the job
Name and phone number are all we need to start.
- Phone
- (905) 555-0193
- Address
- Milton
- Reply
- Same day where we can