Working Hours: Mon - Fri: 9:00 to 18:00 | Sat - Sun : Closed
Working Hours: Mon - Fri: 9:00 to 18:00 | Sat - Sun : Closed
Two calendars shape drywall work in this county: the school year and the cottage season. Student rentals around Trent University and Fleming College want walls repaired and re-boarded between the April move-out and the September lease start; Kawartha cottages from Buckhorn to Stoney Lake want their great rooms finished before the docks go in. In between sits the city itself — century brick near the Otonabee, subdivisions filling in their basements — plus Lakefield, Bridgenorth, Millbrook, Norwood and Havelock. The peterborough county drywall installation we deliver is hung, taped and sanded by one local crew, priced by the square foot, in writing.
A week in Peterborough County hands a drywall crew every kind of job there is. Monday might be a rental on a student street near Trent University or Fleming College — walls opened up by a decade of tenants, boarded fresh and made paint-ready between terms. Midweek could be a subdivision basement on the city's growing edges, or a plaster-era room in the century brick near the Otonabee stripped back and boarded flat again. By Friday the truck is north past Lakefield and Bridgenorth into the Kawarthas — Buckhorn, Stoney Lake, Apsley — where cottage great rooms and four-season conversions carry vaulted ceilings that genuinely deserve a Level 5 skim. Millbrook's heritage streets, the farm country around Norwood and Havelock and the townships in between fill out the map. The terms never change with the postal code: one written price per square foot, no separate travel fee, and the person who measures your job is the one who runs it. If "drywall installation near me" brought you here from anywhere in the county, you've landed well — the full working method sits on our drywall installation services page, while this page is Peterborough County's own.
Board measured to the room, hung plumb with staggered joints, and cut tight to boxes, windows and pot-light openings — waste kept low, seams kept few.
Every joint gets taped — paper or mesh as the seam demands — and every outside corner gets metal or paper-faced bead, so edges survive furniture, tenants and time.
Around 28–32 screws hold each sheet, staggered and set a hair below the surface, then mudded over so no fastener ever ghosts through the paint.
A minimum of three compound coats, each feathered wider than the one before, sanded with dust extraction to the Level 3, 4 or 5 target you picked.
The city splits its drywall needs three ways. Student rentals around Trent University and Fleming College turn over hard — summer is the season for boarding out battered rooms and getting them paint-ready before September leases begin. The old streets near the Otonabee and the Lift Lock carry century brick with tired plaster we strip and re-board flat. And the newer subdivisions supply the classic job: a framed basement boarded with moisture-smart panels near bath and laundry, sanded smooth under the pot lights — all by one local crew, priced per square foot.
The near-north villages mix year-round living with lake frontage: Lakefield's established streets and school-town character, Bridgenorth and Ennismore wrapping around Chemong Lake. Waterfront renovations and additions lead the work up here, alongside new builds boarded to the owner's finish level and the occasional village-home basement. Whatever the job, it rides the same written square-foot price — the drive up from the city costs you nothing.
Water changes what walls have to do. Light bouncing off a lake rakes across cottage great rooms all day, which is why the vaulted and cathedral ceilings around Buckhorn, Stoney Lake and Clear Lake usually earn a Level 5 skim rather than a standard finish. We board those tall planes plumb, wrap four-season conversions so they hold up in February, and keep additions dust-contained while the cottage stays in use — same per-square-foot pricing as everywhere else.
South and east, the county turns to village heritage and farmland — Millbrook's preserved main street and Cavan Monaghan, then Norwood, Havelock and Douro-Dummer across Asphodel-Norwood and Havelock-Belmont-Methuen. Farmhouse additions, country new builds with taller rural and cathedral ceilings, and family-home renovations make up the run sheet, each boarded and finished to its level with the dust kept in the room we're working.
Ask what drywall installation costs in Peterborough County and the honest answer is another question: how many square feet, and to what level? Turnkey — board supplied, hung and finished, no separate travel fee — jobs land in the $2.00–$5.50 per square foot band. A Stoney Lake great room skimmed to Level 5 beneath a vaulted ceiling presses the top of that band; a standard-height city basement finished for everyday paint sits comfortably lower. The tier cards break out the levels, a project table follows below, and the reasoning behind every rate is laid out on our drywall installation services page.
| Single room in the 12×12 range | $1,500–2,500 |
|---|---|
| Garage — one or two cars (Level 3) | $1,500–3,000 |
| Basement, fully boarded & finished | $6,000–12,000+ |
| New build or an entire floor | scales up |
Everything sits inside the turnkey rate — delivery, hanging, tape and bead, spotted screws, three coats minimum, a sand to your level, and cleanup daily. Already bought your board? A labour-only rate begins around $1.50/sq ft — call it $30–70 for each 4×8 sheet hung and finished. These are planning ranges; the free written quote locks your actual drywall install cost before anything gets hung.
The measure produces a number, the number goes in writing, and it stands — Peterborough to Apsley, with no travel line item ever appearing on it.
Poly containment and vacuum-fed sanders trap the fine stuff at the source; the rest of the house never knows we were there.
Every hang, tape, coat and sand day is set out in advance and meshed with your other trades — drying windows built in from the start.
Liability cover is confirmed before work starts, and what we leave behind is flat, solid and ready for your painter's primer.
Compound sets the tempo — every mud coat must dry before the next goes on, and forcing that schedule is how bad walls happen. Board order matters just as much: ceilings first, always, so the wall sheets slide up beneath them and shoulder the ceiling edges. Horizontal hanging rules in houses because it leaves fewer joints at a workable height; running sheets vertically mostly makes sense on tall commercial partitions.
It does. The city itself on the Otonabee, Lakefield and Selwyn (Bridgenorth and Ennismore), the Kawartha cottage belt through Buckhorn, Stoney Lake and Apsley, plus Millbrook, Cavan, Norwood and Havelock. No individual town here has its own page yet — this Peterborough County page is home base for all of them.
Yes, and they're a favourite. Kawartha waterfront builds around Buckhorn, Stoney Lake, Clear Lake and Chemong bring big vaulted and cathedral rooms where light off the water rakes every surface, so we board those planes dead plumb and often skim feature walls and great rooms to Level 5. Sloped ceilings, four-season conversions and additions are all finished to your level with the dust boxed into the workspace.
Both, constantly. Basements get framed-room boarding, moisture-resistant panels near bathrooms and laundry, and a smooth ceiling under pot lights, taped and sanded to your level — priced per square foot, with a full basement typically at $6,000–12,000+ turnkey. Rental turnovers near Trent University and Fleming College get scheduled between terms so the walls are done before tenants arrive.
Working turnkey figures: Level 3 at $2.00–2.75 per sq ft, Level 4 at $2.75–4.00, a Level 5 skim at $4.00–5.50, and full basements usually in the $6,000–12,000+ zone. Area, ceiling height and finish level do the deciding — the free written quote does the confirming.
No. Buckhorn, Stoney Lake, Apsley, Lakefield and Selwyn, Millbrook, Norwood, Havelock — the whole county rides one written square-foot price with no separate travel fee. The county may sit past Durham Region and well clear of the GTA, but distance never shows up on your invoice.
Ceilings, always. The wall sheets then press up underneath and help support the ceiling's edges, which makes for stronger, tidier joints.
A 4×8 on a wall takes roughly 28–32 and ceilings take more — set in a staggered grid just below the paper, so the sheet pulls flat without punch-throughs.
If you're in the county, it is. City streets, the lakes, the villages — Peterborough, Lakefield and Selwyn, Buckhorn, Stoney Lake and Apsley, Millbrook, Norwood and Havelock — that search lands here. Tell us your town and neighbourhood and a drywall installer Peterborough locals trust will confirm coverage and book the measure.
The map doesn't stop at the county line — IntraBuild carries the same crew, rates and written per-square-foot pricing across the GTA and Southern Ontario, with no separate travel fee anywhere.
Whatever the project — a student rental near Trent University on a September deadline, a city basement, a Buckhorn or Stoney Lake great room under a vaulted ceiling, a Lakefield or Bridgenorth waterfront home, a Millbrook village house or a Havelock farmhouse addition — IntraBuild's peterborough county drywall contractors will measure it, recommend the right finish level, set the square-foot price in writing and book the dates. No travel fee in any township, no waiting, no pressure — and the quote itself costs nothing.
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