1630 1st Ave N, Ste B, Fargo, ND, 58102
Three crews working out of one shop, board and tape finished to a named level, and a start date in writing before the first sheet comes off the truck.
Flat walls and ceilings, drywall finished so the low Fargo winter sun crosses your room without turning up a seam.
Fargo Drywall Elite is a drywall contractor working across Fargo, West Fargo and Moorhead since 2009. Three crews hang, tape and finish between them, and the book runs three to four weeks out, sooner when water is coming through a ceiling.
Most of the work is drywall installation, new board in additions, basements and gut jobs. Under that comes drywall repair on walls already up, then texture and finishing matched off a sample board, ceilings and soffits, and water damage repair once a plumber has been.
Joints are finished to ASTM C840, Level 4 as standard and Level 5 wherever a light rakes across the wall, which is what stops paint reading a different sheen down the line of every seam.
Is one small patch worth calling a drywall crew out for? A drywall crew takes both ends of it, a morning for a homeowner with a doorway knock in a hallway and three weeks with two crews for a builder finishing a spec house in Horace.
Call Fargo Drywall Elite for a free measure at (701) 555-0132, on any drywall job in Fargo, West Fargo, Moorhead or Horace. Somebody comes out, measures and leaves you a written scope with the finish level on it.
Kurt and Linnea Halvorsen
Founders and owners
Who we are
We have been hanging, taping and finishing board across Fargo and the Red River Valley since 2009. Seventeen years on, the work comes down to the coats being given the drying time a valley winter needs.
The crew that starts your job is the crew that finishes it, and every wall is primed before we leave. Board, finish level and coat count are written down first, so you can hold ours against the other two quotes.
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 RepairHalf-inch board on walls, five-eighths on ceilings and garages, Type X wherever a rating is called for.
Walls take half-inch board and ceilings take five-eighths, because half-inch sags between joists once a heating season has pulled the moisture out of a house and April has put it back.
Anything below grade gets paperless glass-mat board rather than paper-faced, since valley basements take water most springs and paper facing is what feeds mold.
Joints are taped with paper tape bedded in all-purpose compound rather than mesh and setting compound on any surface a light will rake across. Screws sit at twelve inches on ceilings and sixteen on walls, driven with the gun set to depth so the paper dimples instead of tearing.
Call and somebody will come out, measure the room and tell you which of these your job actually needs.
(701) 555-0132Indoor humidity sits in single figures for five months, valley clay moves foundations by inches a year, and finished basements take water most springs. All three land on the wall.
Rated 5 out of 5
A pipe froze and split behind the laundry wall in January. Wet board out the same week and the wall back the next. No fuss and no guessing.
Rated 5 out of 5
Basement of a 2019 build, framed and never finished. The crew found a header sitting out half an inch and stopped to shim it rather than board over it, which added a day. Worth the day.
Rated 5 out of 5
I turn a rental over most Augusts and had used a different crew every time. This one was two rooms of knocks and a hole where a TV bracket pulled out. Two days, primed, and the sheen matches.
All three of these started as a phone call about one wall. Tell us what yours is doing and we will come and look.
Get a free quoteSix jobs finished in the last year, each with the town it was in. Every seam, patch and texture on this page belongs to a house somebody actually lives in.
Basement rebuilt after spring water
West Fargo
Sixty inches of board off around the whole perimeter, paperless glass-mat back on below the old waterline, ceiling left open until the framing read dry.
Bedroom ceiling after an ice dam
Moorhead
Two joist bays of wet board out, insulation replaced, and the knockdown texture matched into the rest of the ceiling so the patch does not read as one.
Level 5 walls in new construction
Horace
A skim over the whole face on the two walls facing the west glass, because the low afternoon sun there finds every joint a Level 4 leaves behind.
Orange peel matched in a hallway
Casselton
A doorway moved and two feet of new wall built in. The existing spray texture was matched off a sample board before anything went near the actual wall.
Garage hung and firetaped
Harwood
Five-eighths Type X on the ceiling and the house wall, taped and firetaped to the rating, left unfinished elsewhere to keep the budget where it mattered.
Popcorn ceiling taken off
Dilworth
The whole main floor scraped, skimmed flat and rolled to a light stipple. The house dated from 1974, so it was tested for asbestos before a scraper touched it.
A free measure, and the coat count agreed before board arrives.
Two 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
Drywall is the trade a buyer judges the whole house by, and it is the cheapest of them to get right.
No remodeling study prices drywall as a line item. The Cost vs. Value report measures kitchens, baths, decks and windows, and board and tape disappear inside all of them. Anybody quoting a percentage return on taping has made the number up.
Whether this work still reads as money in five years is your own choice at three points. Level 5 on the walls that face glass, paperless board on anything below grade, and a texture that matches the rest of the house rather than whatever the crew sprays fastest. Those three survive a buyer walking the room with a flashlight. A cheap patch does not.
Three 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 quoteThree crews have hung, taped and finished across Fargo, West Fargo and Moorhead since 2009, and the crew that starts a job is the crew that finishes it. Board delivery, three coats, sanding and the cleanup all sit in one contract, so there is nothing left for you to arrange between trades. When water is coming through a ceiling the book gets rearranged rather than quoted at.
Call (701) 555-0132 or use the form and we will come out and measure for nothing. The finish level and the number of coats are written down before anything is ordered.
Drywall service area
About forty miles out from the shop in Fargo, which takes in both sides of the river and the towns strung along Highway 10 and Interstate 94.
Primary service area
Fargo, ND
Fargo Drywall Elite 1630 1st Ave N, Ste B, Fargo, ND, 58102 (701) 555-0132Also serving
If your town is not in the list it is probably still a yes. Call and ask rather than assuming the drive puts you out of range.
FAQs
What people ask before booking a drywall crew
Yes, and plenty of the older houses in Roosevelt and Hawthorne still have it. Plaster over wood lath is patched with a setting compound and a bonding agent rather than ordinary joint compound, because ordinary compound shrinks away from a plaster edge and the repair shows as a ring inside a year.
Yes, and it usually schedules more easily than an owner occupied job. Tell us the notice the tenant is owed and we work to it, keep a clean path from the door to the room, and pack tools away nightly so nothing is left out in a home somebody else is living in.
No. Walls are primed with a PVA drywall primer and handed over ready for your painter, and that is where the job properly ends. The priming is ours rather than theirs because primer is what makes a missed defect visible while a crew is still on site to put it right.
It leaves on our truck the same day the room is cleared, and old board goes to the transfer station rather than into your bin. Where there is any chance the material predates the eighties it is tested before anybody breaks it up, not after somebody has already made dust of it.
Give the last coat a full day, and two if the house is cold or the fill was heavy. Primer can go on as soon as the surface is dry to the touch and sanded, but paint over compound that is still setting will flash in patches and you will be able to pick out every joint from the doorway.
It depends what the plaster is keyed to. If the lath is sound and the plaster is only cracked, quarter-inch board over the top keeps the mess down and costs you about an inch of room. If it is drummy across a wide area, or the lath has pulled off the studs, overhanging hangs new weight on a failing key.
A little, and it is the one part of the job where a homeowner genuinely saves money. What it does not save is the disposal or the insulation, so bag the debris, leave the joists clear and leave the vapor barrier alone. A ceiling stripped badly costs more to board than one nobody touched.
Less than you are picturing if the crew is set up for it. Big flat areas are sanded with vacuum assisted heads, corners are done by hand, doorways and vents are poly'd and a negative air machine runs in the room. You will still find a film two rooms away, so cover what you care about.
Almost always, and most people do. What decides it is whether the room is one you need daily and whether there is somewhere else to cook and sleep. A basement or a spare bedroom is easy to live around. A kitchen ceiling in February with nowhere else to eat is the one people leave for two nights.
Not on a flat joint. Mesh has stretch in it and needs a setting compound over the top, and on a long butt joint under a window it telegraphs a hairline within a couple of heating seasons. Paper tape bedded in all-purpose compound has no stretch in it, which is exactly why it holds a line.
One truck and a trailer at the curb or on the drive, and a standard outlet covers everything except the negative air machine, which wants a circuit of its own. In winter, say where the snow gets piled, so nobody is carrying twelve foot sheets over a bank to reach the door.
Call and somebody comes and looks at it, and the visit costs nothing. A crack returning in the same line usually means movement rather than a bad repair, so the fix is to cut the joint out, tape it properly and let the house move against the tape instead of against a bead of filler.
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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