Working Hours: Mon - Fri: 9:00 to 18:00 | Sat - Sun : Closed
Working Hours: Mon - Fri: 9:00 to 18:00 | Sat - Sun : Closed
Tired plaster comes down in the brick century rows off James and Locke; new board goes up in post-war Mountain bungalows and along the fresh crescents of Ancaster and Binbrook. That's a normal week for this crew. IntraBuild hangs, tapes and sands drywall across the whole amalgamated city — one written price, worked out by the square foot.
Harbour to airport, IntraBuild installs drywall in every corner of amalgamated Hamilton. Down in Durand, Corktown and the Strathcona brick rows, that usually means lath-and-plaster that has finally let go — we strip it out and re-board (drywall, sheetrock, wallboard: same material), matching the old reveals so the trim still sits right. Up the escarpment the work changes character: post-war bungalows getting basements and rec rooms finished, and clean new framing in Ancaster, Waterdown and Binbrook boarded whole. If a search for "drywall installation near me" brought you here from a Hamilton address, you're in the right place. How we price and finish is laid out on our drywall installation services page — everything below is the Hamilton-specific part: plaster tear-outs in the old streets, new board above the brow and out through Dundas and Stoney Creek.
Every sheet checked plumb, butt joints staggered, openings for boxes and pot lights cut tight instead of "close enough".
Paper or mesh over the flats, bead — metal or paper-faced — on every outside corner, so edges stay sharp through years of hallway traffic.
A staggered screw pattern — roughly 28–32 to a sheet — each head sunk just under the paper and coated so paint never telegraphs it.
No fewer than three passes of compound, feathered out wide, then a dust-managed sand to whichever of Level 3, 4 or 5 the room calls for.
When hundred-year-old plaster starts crazing and drumming loose from its lath, there comes a point where another patch is money wasted. In Durand, Kirkendall, Corktown and Strathcona we take failed walls back to the studs, sort out whatever's been hiding behind them, and hang new board that lines up with the original trim and reveals.
The Mountain is street after street of 1950s and '60s bungalows — solid little houses whose basements, additions and opened-up kitchens all want fresh board. Add the new subdivisions of Ancaster, Waterdown, Stoney Creek and Binbrook and it's whole-home hangs too, sequenced so the painter behind us is never left waiting.
Basement boarding runs city-wide, and a good share of it is income and in-law suites. Below grade we hang moisture-tolerant board and cut clean around ducts, beams and bulkheads; where two households share a wall or ceiling, fire-rated Type X and sound board keep the suite safe, quiet and inspection-ready.
Dundas to Glanbrook, Flamborough to Winona — no part of the city gets handed off to a different outfit. The people who measure your job are the ones who hang and finish it, whether that's a heritage semi under the escarpment or a fresh build on a bare suburban lot.
$2.00–$5.50 per square foot, turnkey, is where nearly every Hamilton job we price ends up — board supplied, hung and finished. Where yours lands inside that band comes down to the rooms and the finish. A century-home main floor in Durand — plaster out, new board matched to old openings, a smoother final surface — pushes toward the top; big square rooms in an Ancaster or Binbrook new build price lean. We quote by the square foot because area, not a flat guess, is what actually drives drywall cost. The three finish levels below set the rate, a fuller breakdown follows, and the method behind all of it lives on our drywall installation services page.
| One room, around 12×12 | $1,500–2,500 |
|---|---|
| Garage, one or two cars (Level 3) | $1,500–3,000 |
| Full basement, boarded & finished | $6,000–12,000+ |
| Whole floors & new builds | scales up |
Turnkey means all of it: board delivered, hung, taped and beaded, screws spotted, three coats, a final sand to your level and the site swept at day's end. Supplying your own board? A labour-only rate starts near $1.50/sq ft, or roughly $30–70 to hang and finish each 4×8 sheet. Treat these drywall installation prices as guide rails — the free written quote fixes your exact drywall install cost before a single sheet goes up.
You see the full figure, tied to measured square footage, before anything is ordered — and being local, no travel charge surfaces later.
Poly walls go up and vacuum sanders come out — the fine white dust stays in the work zone, not in your furnace filter.
Hang, tape, coat and sand dates set before we start and lined up with your electrician and painter — the rhythm holds for a Corktown reno and a Binbrook build alike.
Liability insurance in place from day one, and the surface we leave is one your painter can prime without reaching for a pole sander.
Mud has to dry before more mud goes on — that drying time, not the hanging, is what sets the pace, and rushing it is how seams crack a winter later. Ceilings get boarded ahead of walls so the wall sheets tuck underneath and carry the ceiling edges. In houses the sheets normally run sideways across the studs; standing them upright mostly suits tall commercial walls. Fewer joints, cleaner joints — that's the whole game.
Often, yes — the lower city is our plaster country. Once the plaster in a Durand, Kirkendall or Corktown house drums hollow or pulls off its lath, each patch buys less time than the last. We strip the failed material, deal with whatever the walls were hiding, then board to the original heights and reveals so casings and baseboards land where they should.
Every bit of it. Ancaster, Dundas, Stoney Creek, Waterdown, Flamborough, Binbrook and Glanbrook get the same crew as the Mountain and the lower city — nothing is subbed out by postal code. An addition in Dundas and a downtown reno are handled by the same hands.
More than standard board. Walls and ceilings shared between the suite and the main home get 5/8" fire-rated Type X, sound-dampening board keeps the two households out of each other's evenings, and below-grade surfaces get moisture-aware sheets. What your inspector sees is a clean, code-ready surface to sign off.
Working turnkey: Level 3 lands around $2.00–2.75 per square foot, Level 4 around $2.75–4.00, and a Level 5 skim around $4.00–5.50. Old-street plaster tear-outs carry demolition and matching, so they sit high in the band; a tidy Ancaster new-build floor sits low. Size, ceilings and finish level move the number — the free written quote pins it down.
The ceiling, always. Wall sheets then push up tight beneath it and carry its edges, and the joints come out cleaner and stronger for it.
About 28–32 on a 4×8 wall sheet, more overhead — staggered across the framing and driven just below the paper without breaking it, so the board sits flat for good.
Hang-to-sand, a single room takes a day or two; a basement stretches to several because every coat of mud needs its drying time. Plaster tear-outs add demolition days at the front — we map the whole sequence before starting.
It is. From Westdale and Ainslie Wood to Concession Street, from Dundas and Ancaster to Stoney Creek, Winona, Waterdown, Flamborough and Binbrook, IntraBuild is the drywall installer Hamilton homeowners and builders call direct. Name your street and we'll confirm it and come measure.
Hamilton is one stop on a much wider map — the same written square-foot pricing, with nothing added for travel, holds across the GTA and Southern Ontario.
Tell us what you're staring at — plaster coming off the lath in a century semi, a Mountain bungalow basement, a bare-stud main floor in Ancaster. IntraBuild's Hamilton drywall contractors will measure it, recommend a finish level, put a per-square-foot price in writing and slot the dates around your other trades. Local crew, nothing billed for travel, no pressure attached.
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