Working Hours: Mon - Fri: 9:00 to 18:00 | Sat - Sun : Closed
Working Hours: Mon - Fri: 9:00 to 18:00 | Sat - Sun : Closed
The studs are up, the wiring's in — now those bare walls need to become rooms. IntraBuild hangs the board, tapes the seams and sands every surface smooth, priced honestly by the square foot.
IntraBuild is a drywall installation company — a crew of professional drywall installers serving the GTA and Southern Ontario for new builds, finished basements, additions, garages and whole-room projects. Our drywall installation services run the full job: we hang the board (drywall is also called sheetrock or wallboard), tape and coat the seams, and sand to the finish level your walls need. If you've searched "drywall installation near me," this is it — and because drywall is priced by the square foot, your written quote is tied to the real board area, never a vague figure over the phone.
Sheets set plumb and tight on walls and ceilings, joints staggered, cut cleanly around outlets, windows and light boxes.
Mesh or paper tape over every seam, with corner bead installation on each outside corner — metal or paper-faced bead so edges stay crisp and crack-free.
Fasteners set just below the surface in a staggered pattern — about 28–32 per sheet — then spotted so nothing shows through paint.
Three coats of compound minimum, feathered wide, then sanded and dust-controlled to Level 3, 4 or 5.
One of our biggest categories — drywall basement walls and ceilings boarded, moisture-aware board near concrete, neat cuts around ducts and bulkheads.
Garage drywall installation is usually a clean Level 3 finish, with fire-rated board on the wall and ceiling shared with the living space where code requires.
Whole floors boarded and finished, coordinated with framer, electrician and painter so nobody waits on drywall.
A kitchen back to studs, a wall removed, a ceiling re-boarded after new pot lights — the everyday work of a home being updated.
Every drywall installation cost comes down to area, so we quote the drywall installation cost per square foot rather than a flat guess — the cost per sq ft to install drywall, board supplied and finished. As a rough guide, the average price for drywall installation runs about $2.00–$5.50 per square foot turnkey. Pick a finish level below; a fuller cost to install drywall by project sits further down.
| A single room (12×12-ish) | $1,500–2,500 |
|---|---|
| One- or two-car garage (Level 3) | $1,500–3,000 |
| A full basement | $6,000–12,000+ |
| A whole floor / new build | scales up |
The turnkey rate is the whole job — board delivered and hung, taped, beaded, screws spotted, three coats, sanded to your level, daily cleanup. Prefer to buy your own board? A labour-only rate starts around $1.50/sq ft. Per sheet, figure $30–70 to hang and finish a 4×8. These drywall installation prices are guide ranges — a free written quote sets the exact drywall install cost before any board goes up.
A full price tied to your square footage — no separate travel fee tacked on after.
Poly barriers and vacuum-assisted sanding keep drywall dust out of the rest of the home.
Hang, tape, coat and sand days planned up front and coordinated with your other trades.
Liability coverage before we start, and a sound, level surface your painter can walk straight onto.
Each stage has to be right before the next begins — and the mud coats need drying time between them, which is why good drywall can't be rushed. Ceilings go first: a drywall ceiling installation is boarded before the walls, so the wall sheets tuck up under it and support its edges. On residential walls the sheets usually run horizontally, though hanging drywall vertically suits some taller commercial walls — either way the aim is fewer, cleaner joints to finish.
Yes. Sheetrock and drywall are the same product — so is wallboard — gypsum panels screwed to the studs, then taped and finished. "Drywalling" is just the whole job of hanging and finishing those panels, so sheetrock installation (or wallboard installation) and drywall installation are identical work, and a sheetrock installer is simply a drywall installer. We do it all under one name.
Turnkey: about $2.00–2.75 for Level 3, $2.75–4.00 for a standard Level 4, and $4.00–5.50 for a Level 5 skim coat. Toronto sits at the top of each band for access and parking.
Either. Most take the turnkey price where we supply and install everything; if you buy your own board we quote labour-only from about $1.50/sq ft.
Level 4 is smooth and ready for standard paint — right for most rooms. Level 5 adds a full skim coat so nothing shows under critical light; its labour can be nearly double.
Ceilings first. It lets the wall sheets butt up tight underneath and support the ceiling edges, for cleaner, stronger joints.
How many screws per sheet of drywall? On a 4×8 wall, roughly 28–32, and more on ceilings — staggered and set just below the surface so the board holds flat without breaking the paper.
A single room is often a day or two hang-to-sand; a full basement runs several days, since each coat has to dry before the next. You get a schedule up front.
We hand off a paint-ready surface. Painting is separate — and since IntraBuild also does interior painting, one crew can take walls from bare board to finished colour.
Usually yes — we contain the work area, control dust and clean up daily. Empty new builds and gutted basements just move faster.
Looking for drywall installers near me you can actually trust? Send us the space — a room, a basement, a whole build — and IntraBuild's drywall installation contractors will measure, recommend the finish level, price it by the square foot and set a schedule. Free, and no pressure.
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