Working Hours: Mon - Fri: 9:00 to 18:00 | Sat - Sun : Closed
Working Hours: Mon - Fri: 9:00 to 18:00 | Sat - Sun : Closed
Northumberland moves at its own pace — Cobourg's century-brick streets near the beach, Port Hope's storied Victorian blocks along the Ganaraska, Brighton bungalows suited to easy retirement living, cottages strung up the Trent. The drywall work follows suit: heritage plaster taken down and re-boarded with care, lower levels finished for the grandkids' visits, additions hung and sanded smooth. IntraBuild does all of it, county-wide, priced honestly by the square foot — no rushing, no rounding up.
Cobourg and Port Hope anchor our Northumberland County drywall work; the rest of the county rides along. These are heritage towns — Victoria Hall and the beach on one side, Walton Street's film-set Victorian blocks on the other — and their century homes still carry original lath-and-plaster that sooner or later gives up. Taking it down and re-boarding to a modern finish, without losing the character of the rooms, is the county's signature job. Around it sits everything else we hang: finished basements for Cobourg's commuters and retirees, Brighton's single-level homes near Presqu'ile, riverfront places up through Campbellford and Trent Hills, and the villages between — Colborne, Grafton, Warkworth, Hastings. One crew handles all of it on one written price, with no travel fee anywhere on the page. If "drywall installation near me" brought you here from a Northumberland address, stay put. The general method lives on our drywall installation services page — the Northumberland particulars follow below.
Board that meets the framing flat and square — staggered joints, tight cuts at every outlet and window, ceilings and walls alike.
Seams get their tape, paper or mesh; outside corners get bead — metal or paper-faced — that keeps an edge honest through decades of dusting and door swings.
Roughly 28–32 per sheet, staggered, dimpled just below the paper and coated flush — so no fastener ever ghosts through the paint.
A minimum of three coats, feathered progressively wider, then sanded under dust control until the surface meets Level 3, 4 or 5.
The county seat lives three lives at once: heritage blocks around Victoria Hall, century-brick family streets, and newer subdivisions at the edges filling with commuters and retirees. What gets ordered most from us here is the finished lower level — framed basements boarded, taped and sanded smooth, moisture-aware sheets by the bathroom and laundry, and a clean surface under pot lights for the rec room, hobby space or guest suite.
Walton Street didn't stay one of Canada's best-preserved main streets by accident, and the century homes along the Ganaraska deserve the same patience. Where original lath-and-plaster has failed, we strip it and re-board to a modern finish while ceiling heights, reveals and trim lines keep their character — and where raking light crosses a parlour wall, a Level 5 skim keeps every seam invisible. All of it on the usual written per-square-foot price.
A town that suits downsizers: bungalows and newer subdivision homes set between the orchards and the park gates. We board whole new builds, finish basements into hobby and guest space, and hang additions on the established streets — sanded to your level, on the same square-foot pricing as the rest of the county.
Up the Trent–Severn it's riverfront homes and cottages; between the towns sit Warkworth, Hastings, Colborne and Grafton with their farm and village houses. Taller country ceilings, great rooms, additions and new builds — boarded and finished cleanly, with the dust kept where the work is.
Two jobs of identical size can price differently — the finish decides that, and the area decides the rest. It's why every Northumberland County quote we write is built per square foot: board supplied and finished, one price, no travel line. Nearly everything lands between $2.00–$5.50 per square foot turnkey. A Port Hope heritage main floor taken to a Level 5 skim under original-height ceilings sits near the top of that range; a simple Cobourg basement across standard rooms stays near its floor. Choose a finish level below, read the fuller breakdown underneath, and find the whole pricing method on our drywall installation services page.
| A 12×12-or-so bedroom or office | $1,500–2,500 |
|---|---|
| Single or double garage (Level 3) | $1,500–3,000 |
| The whole basement, finished | $6,000–12,000+ |
| Full floors & new builds | scales up |
Everything sits inside the turnkey figure: board to the door, hung, taped and beaded, screws spotted, three coats, the final sand to your level, the nightly tidy-up. Buying board yourself? Then labour-only runs from about $1.50/sq ft — which works out to $30–70 per 4×8 sheet, hung and finished. These are orientation ranges; the free written quote is what sets your actual drywall install cost before any board arrives.
Square footage measured, price written, everything agreed before board is ordered — and the drive out from our base never appears as a charge, Cobourg or Campbellford alike.
Plastic containment and vacuum-hooked sanders — compound dust stays with us, not on the china cabinet.
The hang, tape, coat and sand days are fixed in advance and meshed with your other trades, whether the job is in town or up a township road.
Liability coverage confirmed before day one; when we leave, the painter inherits a surface that needs primer and nothing else.
The pace of drywall is set in the mud pail: compound must dry between coats, and hurrying that step is the classic cause of seams cracking the following winter. Sequence matters just as much — the ceiling boards on first, wall sheets snugging up beneath it to carry its edges. House walls almost always take horizontal sheets (vertical hangs are a tall-commercial-wall habit), because the fewer joints you create, the fewer you must finish perfectly.
All of them, since none has a separate city page: Cobourg and Port Hope, Brighton and the Presqu'ile shore, Campbellford and Trent Hills, plus the villages and townships — Colborne, Grafton, Warkworth, Hastings, Roseneath. One page, one crew, the whole county.
That's exactly the job our heritage work is built around. Failed lath-and-plaster comes down carefully, walls and ceilings get re-boarded plumb to the original heights and reveals, and where sunlight rakes along a parlour or stair wall we skim to Level 5 so no joint ever announces itself. The room keeps its proportions and trim lines — it simply stops cracking.
It's the most-booked job we do in town: a framed lower level boarded, taped and sanded into guest quarters, a hobby room or a den for visiting grandkids. Moisture-aware board goes near bathrooms and laundry, the finish comes up smooth under pot lights, and a full basement typically lands around $6,000–12,000+ turnkey, priced by the square foot.
Turnkey and per square foot: $2.00–2.75 for Level 3, $2.75–4.00 for Level 4, $4.00–5.50 for a Level 5 skim; whole basements tend toward $6,000–12,000+. Footage, ceiling height and finish level set the final figure — the free written quote does the rest.
It won't. Cobourg, Port Hope, Brighton, Campbellford, Trent Hills, Colborne, Grafton or Warkworth — wherever the job sits, the quote is one written per-square-foot price with no travel line on it, the same as if we worked next door.
It does, every time. With the ceiling boarded first, wall sheets tuck underneath and shoulder its edges — the joints end up cleaner and stronger for it.
A 4×8 wall sheet takes roughly 28–32, ceilings take more — staggered rows, each screw set just under the surface with the paper intact, which is what holds board flat for the long haul.
You did. IntraBuild is the drywall installer Northumberland homeowners call right across the county — the Cobourg and Port Hope heritage streets, Brighton, the Trent Hills river country and every township between. Give us the town and road, and we'll confirm the visit and come measure.
Beyond the county line the offer doesn't change — written square-foot pricing, no travel fee, and the same crew working the neighbouring regions.
Describe the project — failing plaster in a Port Hope Victorian, a Cobourg basement waiting to become guest space, a Brighton bungalow addition near Presqu'ile, a riverfront great room up in Campbellford or Trent Hills — and IntraBuild's Northumberland County drywall contractors will come measure, advise on the finish level, write the per-square-foot price and set dates that suit you. No travel fee anywhere in the county, no obligation attached. Free, and no pressure.
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