Conroe Drywall Co. is a drywall contractor working in Plantersville, Texas, and we get out here regularly. Our work is centered on Conroe, Montgomery County and the surrounding communities, and Plantersville is one of them.
We patch the holes and cracks you have been looking at in your walls, and we hang new gypsum board, the paper-faced panels most people call sheetrock, when you are adding a room or finishing one out. New board is installed to ASTM C840, the published standard for hanging and finishing gypsum board. We also handle drywall repair after a leak has soaked a wall or ceiling, match the surrounding texture so a patch does not stand out, and remove popcorn ceilings for owners who want a flat finish. For builders and business owners, we handle commercial interiors, steel framing and the drywall installation that goes with new construction.
Plantersville is a city of 464 residents at the junction of State Highway 105 and FM 1774, about twenty-five miles west of Conroe. It is the furthest west of the communities we serve, and crews working here already know the drive and the roads at both ends. Most drywall work in Plantersville is handled by someone driving in, so that travel is already built into how we schedule the crew, load materials and price the job.
If you want someone to look at a wall or ceiling and tell you what it will take to repair it, call us at (346) 706-5743.
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Our shop is in Conroe, about twenty-five miles east of you along State Highway 105, so this is the far end of the route. A crew working ten minutes from the yard can go back for a sheet of board or a bucket of compound and lose half an hour, but from Plantersville that same trip takes most of the working day. For that reason, the truck leaves Conroe loaded with everything the job could require, not just what we expect to use.
Over 15 years of work in occupied homes and commercial interiors has shaped how we handle the parts of the job you notice most. Three things are included with every visit here rather than added later:
We are an insured drywall contractor and can send our certificate of insurance before work begins. Our on-site estimates are free, and financing is available for larger projects.
We also work farther east along the same highway as a drywall contractor in Montgomery. To schedule a visit in Plantersville, call us at (346) 706-5743.
Our Services
The same core drywall services cover every building we work in around Plantersville, from homes that are occupied every day to shops that sit closed for months. What changes is how much we know about the job before we arrive, because a drywall contractor can only quote work that has been seen.
You find holes, nail pops where fasteners have pushed the surface out, or seams between boards that have opened. We cut out the damaged area instead of covering over it, back the opening with solid material, fill it with joint compound and finish the patch until it blends with the surrounding wall.
Water that has had time to spread leaves drywall soft to the touch, and on a property that is not checked every week, it usually has that time. We cut the wet board back to sound material, make sure the framing behind it is dry, hang new board and match the existing finish. The sooner the damaged board is removed, the less of the wall has to be replaced.
A stain overhead is often the first sign of a leak, and it rarely appears directly below where the water entered. We remove ceiling board that is stained or sagging under its own weight and replace it so the new finish matches the rest of the room. Ceiling damage is where waiting costs you the most, because wet board gets heavier and starts pulling away from its fasteners.
Houses around Plantersville were finished at different times by different crews, so one wall often carries two eras of surface pattern. Drywall finishing and texturing is what makes a repair blend into the surrounding surface. Knockdown, orange peel and hand-worked textures all turn up here, and we match the one you have rather than using whatever is quickest. A patch sanded perfectly flat still stands out if the surrounding pattern is different.
Many buildings around Plantersville went up as shells and were finished inside years later, and that is the drywall installation we handle most here. We also hang new board on walls that have been taken back to the framing and in rooms added to existing houses. Gypsum board goes on the studs, and we finish it to match the rooms it connects to.
New construction drywall around Plantersville usually means one house at a time rather than a production run. We hang and finish the board before the house is occupied, working for owners building a single home as well as builders handling several. The drywall schedule follows the pace of the build itself rather than a separate calendar.
Barns, shops and outbuildings around Plantersville get finished ceilings as well as houses, and drywall ceiling installation means adding one to a building that never had it. We fasten the board to the framing overhead and finish the joints and surface. A finished ceiling closes in the room so you can heat it, clean it and use it.
Older houses around Plantersville have sprayed texture overhead, a bumpy coating applied wet with a spray gun. Popcorn ceiling removal takes that coating off when you are redoing the room. We then skim the ceiling underneath with a thin coat of compound, work it smooth and apply a new finish so the entire ceiling has one even surface.
The moisture-resistant drywall we specify has a facing and core that hold up better where damp air collects. We use it in your bathrooms, garages and the ceilings below an attic, and we include it in the scope from the start rather than adding it later as an extra line on your quote.
On an acreage property, the wall is often already open for another reason, and that is when insulation costs you the least to add. We fit insulation batts into the open stud bays, most often in detached buildings and shop walls, and the same crew closes the wall back up afterward.
Metal stud framing uses steel uprights and the track they sit in instead of wood, and around Plantersville it is used in shop buildings and small commercial spaces rather than houses. We frame the interior walls in steel and hang the drywall with the same crew, so you are not waiting on one trade to finish before the next one starts.
Commercial buildings in a town this size are small, such as a shop front, an office or a building that only opens to the public for part of the year. We phase commercial drywall work so you can keep using the rooms we are not working in, and we can work outside your normal opening hours when the space cannot be shut down during the day.
Partition wall installation divides a space that was built as one room. We split a shop into two areas or build an office inside a larger space, framing, boarding and finishing the new wall so it matches the rest of the building. The finish already on the surrounding walls determines how we finish the new partition.
Offices, clinics and meeting rooms often use a suspended ceiling, with a metal grid hung below the structure and light tiles set into it. We handle acoustic ceiling installation in those spaces and repair grids where tiles have stained or broken. You can lift a tile out and put it back to reach pipes, wiring or other services above, without cutting the ceiling.
Wallpaper that has been on a wall for decades hides the damage underneath, and you do not know the condition of the surface until the paper comes off. We strip the paper, repair areas where the wall has torn or gone rough, and leave you with a sound surface ready for its new finish.
Fresh board and new joint compound do not take paint evenly on their own because the compound absorbs it faster than the board. PVA primer seals both surfaces so the paint goes on evenly, and we apply it over all new board and compound as part of the drywall priming included in the quoted scope. Finish painting is optional and quoted as a separate line.
Around Plantersville, many buildings are used only part of the year rather than occupied week after week, including weekend houses, family properties that sit empty and outbuildings finished inside and then closed up. A building like that can go months without anyone checking the walls and ceilings closely, and problems continue while it is empty. Gypsum board, the paper-faced panel that forms the flat surface of an interior wall, shows those changes clearly. Nearly every repair we handle on these properties starts with something the owner notices on the first walk-through after a long absence.
Water damage drywall repair means cutting out board that got wet and rebuilding the wall or ceiling so the surface is flat again. A leak that keeps running does not give the board time to dry between wettings, so the panel stays soft and the paper face starts separating from the plaster core. In an empty building, that continues for weeks before you see it, and by the time you notice a sagging ceiling or a brown ring overhead, the water has spread well beyond where it entered.
A stain shows you where the water reached the surface, not where it entered. We use a moisture meter, a handheld instrument that measures how much water is held in the board and the framing behind it, so we cut back to dry material instead of treating the stain as the edge of the damage. The moisture source has to be stopped and any active mold dealt with before the wall is closed.
A building that is closed up without heating or cooling follows the outdoor temperature more closely than a house occupied every day, so the change between a cool morning and a hot afternoon is greater. Finished walls take that movement at the joints between panels. Drywall tape is the paper or mesh strip laid over each seam, and joint compound is spread over it to create a flat finished surface.
Where two panels move against each other repeatedly, the tape lifts, the compound cracks along the seam and the surface texture breaks. A wall that looked sound in spring can open by late summer. On a wall that gets damp, we specify moisture-resistant board. In other cases, the repair comes down to rebuilding the joint correctly and the texture matching that follows.
On a building used only part of the year, the time it stands empty is the only window the work fits into, and you want it finished before you need the place again. We first measure what has to come out, then you settle how the finished surface should look, and complete the repair within that window.
Texture matching has to be decided before the first coats go on because the pattern is built as the joint is filled, not added at the end. On a rebuild, the schedule is set by the time joint compound needs to dry between coats, and rushing that stage leads to cracking later. We plan the work backward from the date you need the building ready.
The three things worth knowing before we quote the work are which county the property is in, how your building is reached from the road, and what the Plantersville address tells us about its location. None of that changes the drywall work itself, but it does change what we ask you before we load the truck.
Your property here is in Grimes County, while most of the rest of the area we serve lies east of the county line in Montgomery County. Children in town attend Navasota Independent School District rather than a Montgomery County district. For a drywall job, the county line only determines which county offices the address falls under.
It has no effect on who comes out, what we bring or what you pay. The Conroe Drywall Co. crew that works in Conroe also works here, the board and compound come from the same stock, and the price is built from the size and scope of the job rather than the county it is in.
Plantersville grew around a crossing where State Highway 105, FM 1774 and the old Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe rail line meet. Some buildings front the highway, while others sit well back from a county road behind a gate. That affects how close we can bring a truck to your door, and it is worth knowing before the day of the work. A full sheet of gypsum board is wide and awkward enough that it takes two people to carry.
Where a truck can back up to the opening, sheets go straight into the building. Where it cannot, every sheet has to be carried the remaining distance by hand. We ask about gates, driveways and building access before the work starts so we know how close the truck can get.
The city covers 1.99 square miles, but the postal area that carries the Plantersville name reaches well past the city line into open country. Nearby Todd Mission is a separate incorporated city, and even its city hall uses a Plantersville mailing address.
So when you give us an address, it tells us roughly where to drive but almost nothing about which city, if any, your building is inside. That is normal around Plantersville, and we treat it as a question to answer rather than an obstacle. Tell us what you need done by calling (346) 706-5743 or sending the details through our free estimate form.
Paperwork follows the property address, and around Plantersville an address can fall under any of three different authorities. Which one you are under determines who has to be contacted before the work starts.
A building with a Plantersville mailing address may be inside the city of Plantersville, inside neighboring Todd Mission, or on unincorporated land in Grimes County, and the postmark on your letters does not tell you which one applies. All three are common here, and neighboring properties on the same road can fall under different authorities. Because that determines who has to be contacted for work beyond replacing board in an existing room, we confirm which area your property is in during the on-site estimate rather than guessing from the address. It only takes a few minutes and happens before any drywall contractor gives you a price.
For property outside the cities, Grimes County has adopted the 2021 International Residential Code for new residential construction and requires a development permit in its unincorporated areas. The county also states that it does not inspect residential structures. In practice, those requirements are aimed at putting up a new building and at the work on the site around it rather than at interior repair.
New construction drywall on a house going up falls within that process. Replacing board in an existing room, patching a ceiling or refinishing a wall does not require that development permit, so you do not need to call the county before that work starts.
The city of Plantersville incorporated on May 15, 2017 and is a general law Type B municipality, a category of small Texas city with a limited set of powers. It does not publish a building department or permitting process, but that does not mean no requirements apply.
For work inside the city limits, we confirm any requirements with the city and tell you what applies. We make that call while the scope is being written rather than after a crew is standing in your house. Because Plantersville has only had its own city government for a few years, we check the current requirements each time instead of relying on what applied last year.
FAQ
Yes. Plantersville is the western end of our service area, not outside it. The distance changes how we schedule the day and what we load on the truck before leaving Conroe, but it does not change whether we come out or how we price the work once we are there.
Look at your ceilings first and then the walls directly below them, especially under anything that passes through the roof and behind walls with plumbing fixtures on the other side. A stain that has dried is still worth checking. Dry only means the water has stopped; it does not tell you whether the gypsum board behind the surface is still sound.
Yes. Texture installed before 1990 can contain asbestos, so we arrange lab testing before any scraping begins and remove only material the results clear as safe. Older sprayed ceilings are where this comes up, and this is the one type of work we test before touching the surface. If the results do not clear the material, we refer you to a specialist instead of removing it ourselves.
Both. Steel-framed shops and barns are a normal part of the work around Plantersville, and finishing one is different from working in a wood-framed room. The framing, fasteners and way the board is handled are different enough that we scope a steel building as its own type of job. We also plan access separately because power and water are not always available at the building.
Someone other than you can let us into the building, whether that is a caretaker, neighbor or property manager. We then send the written quote to whoever is paying for the drywall repair, regardless of who met us at the property. An owner who lives two hours away gets the same price and scope as the person who was there for the visit.
An on-site estimate means someone from Conroe Drywall Co. comes to the building in Plantersville and looks at the wall or ceiling you need repaired. We measure the damaged area, check what is behind it and write down what the repair requires. The written quote comes from that visit, so the price you read is based on the wall we inspected rather than a description over the phone. Call (346) 706-5743 or use our quote form for a clear price on your project.
