1630 1st Ave N, Ste B, Fargo, ND, 58102
Manned to your schedule rather than ours, billed by floor or by phase against lien waivers, and worked at night where a tenant is trading through it.
You end up with a floor handed over on the date it was promised, with the punch list closed before the crew leaves.
Fargo Drywall Elite is a drywall contractor working commercial and multifamily jobs across Fargo and the valley since 2009. Three crews, fully insured in North Dakota, and enough hands to put eight on one floor when a schedule needs it rather than two for twice as long.
Tenant improvement buildouts are the biggest share, then multifamily hanging, then offices and clinics, then retail and restaurant work. Rated assemblies are built to the tested design number they were specified under, with the right board, the right fastener spacing and firestopping at every penetration, rather than to a general idea of what a one hour wall looks like. That is the difference between an assembly your inspector passes and one your inspector asks you to open up.
How small a commercial job is worth booking? A single office ceiling after a sprinkler head let go is a day, and a thirty-unit building hung floor by floor is a season. Both are quoted off one measure and both start at new board.
Send the drawings or call at (701) 555-0132 and you will get a manning plan with the number, not just a price. You will go from chasing a sub for a start date every Friday to knowing which floor is being hung next week!
What changes on a commercial job is everything around the board, and almost nothing about the board itself.
A homeowner wants to know how much dust there will be and when they get their room back. You want to know how many hands are on site on Tuesday, whether the rated assemblies have been submitted, and whether the invoice will match the schedule of values.
So the paperwork runs first. Certificates of insurance and the additional insured endorsement are with your office before anybody mobilizes, submittals go in before board is ordered, and billing follows the draw schedule with a conditional waiver against each one.
On site it is one foreman who stays for the whole job, so your super has a name and a number rather than whoever is nearest the door.
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 contractors and property managers ask before awarding
Yes, and the certificate goes to your office before anybody sets foot on site. General liability and workers compensation are both in place and the endorsement naming your entity is issued by our carrier rather than typed onto the certificate by us. Send the wording you need with the award.
Progress billing against a schedule of values, by floor or by phase, whichever matches how you are drawing. Each application carries a conditional lien waiver, and the final one an unconditional waiver on payment. Retainage is whatever the contract says rather than something argued about at the end.
Yes, and on tenant improvement work in an occupied building it is usually the only sensible answer. Crews come in after close, the dust wall goes up and comes down each shift, and the space is handed back swept and lit for opening. It costs more per hour and it saves the tenant's trading days.
Yes, before board is ordered rather than after it is hung. The submittal names the tested design number, the board, the fastener type and spacing, the framing and the firestop products at penetrations. If the specified assembly cannot be built as drawn, you hear it at submittal rather than at inspection.
Eight on a single floor when a schedule needs it, drawn from three crews. What we will not do is promise a crew size we then have to take off your job to cover another. The manning plan goes on the proposal with the number, and if it changes you are told the week before rather than on the day.
Yes, and the schedule is written against your milestones rather than our diary. What moves the date is your inspection slipping, not ours. Give us a week of notice either way and the crew moves with it. Notice on the day means the crew is already on another site and the slot goes to the end of that week.
It gets walked with your super before the crew demobilizes, not after. Anything found on that walk is closed by the same crew while the staging and the compound are still on site, which is the whole reason for doing it then. Items raised after demobilization are a return visit and get scheduled as one.
We firestop what we open in a rated assembly and we detail it to the tested system. Penetrations made by other trades after we have closed the wall are theirs, and that split needs saying out loud at the preconstruction meeting, because it is the single most common thing an inspector finds open.
Yes, with negative air and hard containment rather than a sheet of poly and good intentions. Anything in a healthcare space is worked behind a sealed barrier with the pressure running the right way, and the floor is cleaned at the end of each shift. Send your infection control requirements with the drawings.
About forty miles out from the shop as standard, which covers both sides of the river and the towns along Interstate 94 and Highway 10. Further than that depends on the length of the job. A week is not worth a crew driving ninety minutes twice a day. Three months with lodging usually is.
Nobody on our side starts extra work without your written authorization, and that is a rule rather than a preference. Additional scope is priced, sent, signed and then done. A verbal from somebody on site gets confirmed in writing the same day, because the alternative is an argument at the final application.
Not until there is temporary heat holding the space above fifty-five degrees. Compound will not set below that and board off a cold trailer sweats when it warms up, so both are false economies. Get the temporary heat in the schedule ahead of us and a January start is straightforward here.
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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