How much dust will there be?

Less than you fear. We sand with vacuum attachments and seal the work area, but plan for some fine dust in the immediate room.

Can you do a level 5 finish?

Yes, for walls under glossy paint or strong side lighting. It costs more because it is a full skim, and we will tell you when it is genuinely worth it.

Taping & Mudding

Flat seams are not luck

Taping is the part everyone sees and nobody notices when it is done right. Coats built up properly, corners run straight, sanding contained.

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Taping knife drawing compound down a drywall seam during a Halifax finishing job

What's included

No line items you did not ask for, and nothing skipped because it does not show.

Coats, not a coat

Tape, fill, finish. Each one goes on thinner and wider than the last. Rushing this is why seams telegraph.

Corners run true

Inside corners cut clean, outside corners set to bead so the edge is straight from top to bottom.

Dust controlled

Vacuum sanding and sealed rooms. Sanding dust travels further through a house than anyone expects.

Checked under raking light

We light the wall from the side before calling it done — that is how the flaws show up.

Damage we handle here

If yours is not on this list, send a photo anyway. It is almost certainly something we see weekly.

Newly hung board needing a full finish
Failed or lifting tape on old seams
Bad DIY mudding that needs to be flattened
Corner bead replacement
Butt joints that show through paint
Skim coating a whole wall back to smooth

This work, before and after

Door-frame corner taped, mudded and sanded smooth with the crack gone — Settling cracks above a door frame

Long settling crack running diagonally from the top corner of a door frame — Settling cracks above a door frame

New corner bead set and mudded, giving a straight crisp hallway edge — Corner bead damage in a hallway

Dented metal corner bead with drywall chipped away along a hallway edge — Corner bead damage in a hallway

Ceiling seam re-taped, skimmed and blended into the surrounding finish — Ceiling seam crack in a rental unit

Open seam crack running across a rental unit ceiling with tape lifting — Ceiling seam crack in a rental unit

What it costs

Finishing work is priced by the length of seam and the finish level. Small repair-related taping is covered by the calculator ranges.

No financing fee, markup or gross-up is built into a displayed price. What you see is the cash price, plus HST.

Step 1

What size is the damage?

Pick the closest match. You can add more areas in a moment — nothing here is locked in.

Your estimate

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Line-item breakdown of your estimate
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Why a range?

Until we see the wall, two things are unknown: how far the damage runs past what is visible, and how hard the surrounding finish is to match.

Pushes it down: solid edges around the hole, a flat untextured wall, several repairs in one room, easy access.

Pushes it up: crushed board that has to be opened wider, heavy texture, high or awkward ceilings, hidden moisture, and plaster that needs a coat to set before finishing.

Send photos with the form below and we usually collapse the range to a single number the same day. No financing fee, markup or gross-up is built into this price.

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Your price is already above. This just tells us where to send a technician and lets us confirm the range against your photos.

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Taping & Mudding questions

Yes, and it is a large part of what we do. Sometimes it means skimming the whole wall to make it read flat, and we will say so before starting.

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Flat seams are not luck