Conroe Drywall Co. is a drywall contractor serving Splendora, Texas, where much of our work is drywall repair, from patching holes and cracked seams to replacing board soaked by rain or a failed supply line and rebuilding ceilings that have sagged or stained. We also hang and finish new board, match texture so repairs blend into the surrounding wall, and remove popcorn ceilings. For commercial properties and new construction, we finish interiors, frame walls and complete the drywall from hanging through finishing. We serve Conroe, Montgomery County and the surrounding communities.
One city name covers two very different kinds of property here: a small built-up core with close-set houses along compact streets, and a much larger rural area of acreage, long driveways and buildings set well back from the road. A drywall job in one is a different proposition from a job in the other, so we plan each visit around the property we are actually coming to rather than the address alone.
We are insured and follow established industry practices, including ASTM C840 standards for gypsum board installation and finishing. We finish drywall to the GA-214 levels, with Level 4 used most often, and have been doing this work for over 15 years. Estimates are free, with financing available for larger projects. Call (346) 706-5743 or use our quote form for a clear price on your project.
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Whether your address is inside the city or along a county road, Conroe Drywall Co. quotes the work on the same terms. Our coverage does not stop at the city line, and every quote starts with an on-site look before a price is written down. We are an insured drywall contractor and can send our certificate of insurance before work begins.
A few other parts of how we work also shape what you can expect from a drywall job in Splendora:
Call (346) 706-5743 or use the quote form to have us come out and look at the wall in person. At the western edge of our service area, we are also the drywall contractor in Plantersville.
Our Services
The same drywall services are available at every address here, but the jobs fall into three groups based on the type of property: houses on town lots, homes on acreage with larger rooms and longer driveways, and the short stretch of commercial frontage along the highway. The drywall work itself stays the same; what changes is access, room size and scheduling.
We patch holes, knocked-out corners and fasteners that have pushed through the drywall surface. Because the damage usually extends beyond the mark you can see, we cut back to sound board, tape the joint with paper tape and fill it with joint compound. If a corner has been knocked out of line, we replace the metal strip that protects it.
Drywall installation means hanging, taping and finishing new gypsum board one room at a time. We plan the sheet layout before lifting the first panel because fewer joints leave fewer seams to hide during finishing. In a tight town bedroom, sheets have to be cut down to make the turn into the room; on acreage, longer runs allow us to hang full sheets. Before any board goes up, we check that the framing is flat.
Houses here reflect several decades of texture styles, from the fine spatter of orange peel to the flattened peaks of knockdown. We tape, coat and sand the repair to the specified finish level, then study the existing wall pattern and match it by hand or spray. A flat patch beside a textured wall is visible from the doorway.
We finish commercial interiors for shops, offices and church halls in the built-up part of town, along with the smaller buildings on the highway frontage, using metal studs where the walls are not wood-framed. After-hours phased scheduling allows us to finish sections while the business continues using other areas. That means you do not have to close your doors just to have walls built.
Fresh joint compound is porous, so paint absorbs into it unevenly and leaves the repair showing as a dull patch once the wall dries. We seal new compound with PVA primer as standard to prevent that. We treat finish painting as a separate trade and price it as its own line rather than including it automatically.
Most Splendora houses are single-story, so the ceiling board sits directly below the attic and the conditions at the roof above it. We repair stains, sags and split seams, replace board that has failed, and open a sagging ceiling to find the cause rather than skimming over it.
The sprayed, lumpy finish found on older ceilings is known in the trade as acoustic texture, and removing it means scraping the surface back and refinishing the ceiling flat. 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. After the texture is gone, we skim the ceiling with a thin overall coat of compound so trowel marks do not show through the paint.
Around here, water damage usually starts with a roof leak rather than a burst pipe. Once gypsum board gets wet, it loses stiffness and no longer holds fasteners properly, so we cut back to dry, sound board, dry the space inside the wall and replace every section that has gone soft.
The offices, clinics and church buildings in town mostly use ceiling tiles set into a metal grid suspended below the structural ceiling. The usual repair is a stained tile or a section of grid that has sagged out of level rather than a complete ceiling replacement. We bring the grid back to level first, then install replacement tiles that match the existing run.
Arches, niches, columns and curved openings are common drywall features in newer houses around Splendora, especially where an owner wants to soften a detail the builder left square. We form curves with flexible board rather than cutting them into short straight sections, because those facets show in the shadow line along the finished edge.
Light-gauge steel studs and the track they sit in form the wall framing in shop fit-outs along the frontage and in buildings that were never framed with wood inside. We lay out the walls first, then frame and reinforce the openings where doors or screens will be installed. Unlike wood, steel does not swell and shrink with changes in humidity.
We install insulation as batts, soft blankets cut to fit between the studs, and that work has to happen while the wall is open. On an addition or a shop finish-out, it is the only chance to place the insulation without removing drywall later. Each batt is fitted full and square between the studs because gaps and compressed corners reduce its rated performance.
Some buildings in and around Splendora were built before gypsum board became standard, so their walls are wet plaster applied over narrow wooden laths instead of drywall. Plaster does not accept a drywall patch the same way, so ask for plaster repair rather than drywall repair. We remove material that has let go, re-anchor loose sections and apply a bonding agent so the new plaster grips the existing surface.
Once the wallpaper comes off, the wall behind it is rarely ready for paint. Adhesive left on the surface causes paint to lift later, and stripping can tear the thin paper face of the drywall underneath. We remove the remaining adhesive, restore the wall to a paintable surface and skim torn areas smooth before primer goes on.
New houses are going up on the land around Splendora, and a whole-house drywall hang, tape and finish follows the builder’s schedule rather than your weekend. Our dates are tied to the trades before and after us, with framing and electrical completed first and painting following the drywall. Unless the quote specifies otherwise, the entire house is finished to the same level throughout.
Dividing a room that was built as one open space, whether that means splitting a long bedroom in two or adding an office at one end of a shop floor, requires a new wall to be laid out, framed, boarded and finished. That wall has to be anchored to something solid enough to carry it, and the ceiling joint is where poor partition work shows first.
A new ceiling is boarded and finished flat, whether it goes into an added room, replaces a ceiling that was removed, or covers bare joists after a popcorn finish has been scraped away. We run the board across the joists and fasten it to a single plane because a ceiling exposes every dip that a wall would hide.
Where a duct, beam or cabinet run has to cross a room, we enclose it inside a shallow framed box finished in drywall, called a soffit or bulkhead. Additions here often need services carried across rooms that were never designed for them, so we frame and board the enclosure around those runs. Clean, straight corners are what make the finished box look like part of the room rather than something added later.
We install Type X board, a denser gypsum board that holds together longer in a fire, as part of a UL-tested and listed assembly. The fire rating applies to the complete assembly rather than the sheet alone, so the joints and every opening cut through the board have to be built the same way they were in the tested design.
We work in bathrooms, laundries and the covered outdoor rooms common here, all of which stay damp longer than the rest of the house. Where humidity is constant, we use moisture-resistant board instead of standard drywall. Behind shower tile, we install cement backer board because it does not soften when exposed to moisture. Standard board in a consistently damp space does not last.
A bedroom facing the frontage, or a room added for music or work, can be built so less sound passes through the wall. Extra mass blocks part of the sound, while resilient channel, a springy metal strip installed between the drywall and framing, interrupts the path that carries the rest through the studs. We also seal the perimeter because gaps at the edges matter just as much as the added layers.
A drywall patch follows the same basic process wherever the property is: cut back the damaged gypsum board, fit a new piece, tape and coat the joint, sand it flat and match the surrounding surface. What changes between a house on a street in central Splendora and one on several acres outside town is everything around that repair, including where the van can park, which door the board comes through, where there is room to cut and which parts of the house need to stay in use while we work.
Those are the questions we ask before setting a date, because the answers affect how the workday is planned, not what the drywall repair itself costs in hours of skill.
On a town lot, the vehicle is only a few steps from the door, which helps with access but creates other constraints. Drywall sheets come through a front room that is still in use, so furniture has to be moved first, and with neighbors close by, we agree on the noisy part of the work with you instead of assuming the timing.
On acreage, the approach may be long, unpaved or behind a gate that someone has to open before we can reach the house. A full sheet of gypsum board is bulky and awkward for two people to carry, and here it has a real distance to travel from the vehicle to the room where it will be installed. The advantage is the extra space outside, which gives us room to measure and cut in the open so offcuts and the first round of debris never have to come indoors.
Cutting drywall is not what creates most of the mess. Sanding does, because the fine white dust follows the air currents already moving through the house. That means the layout of your rooms determines how far the dust travels more than the size of the repair itself. In a large open-plan house on an open lot, dust has more connected space to move through than it does in a smaller, closed-off house in town, so we place barriers where one room opens into the next rather than only around the damaged wall.
Dust control is included in the price rather than added as a separate charge. We sheet the doorways, seal the edges around the work area and sand with dust drawn off at the tool instead of letting it settle and sweeping it up afterward. Tell us which rooms need to stay usable while we work, and we will explain which spaces will be out of service and roughly how long you will be without them.
The third difference acreage brings has nothing to do with access. Rooms here tend to be larger, so a taped joint can run the full length of a wall without a doorway or corner to interrupt it. Where two cut ends of gypsum board meet in the middle of that run, the butt joint has no recessed edge to hold the tape and nothing nearby to draw your eye away from it. We feather the compound wide on both sides and check the wall in raking light cast at a low angle along its full length, because a long wall is judged as one continuous surface rather than one spot at a time.
Splendora sits in a humid part of the upper Gulf Coast, and the long warm season keeps moisture in the air inside your house for much of the year. Storms are part of that same season. Together, humidity and stormwater bring moisture into interiors in two different ways, and the marks they leave are distinct enough to tell apart.
Gypsum board, the paper-faced panel that forms your walls and ceilings, softens as it absorbs moisture, so both kinds of water damage eventually show on the same surface. Slow damp develops over weeks: the ceiling stain begins small, darkens around the edges and spreads a little farther each time the weather turns.
Storm water arrives through the roof, a valley or an open window and leave a ceiling stain overnight. After a hard storm, check the ceiling directly below a roof valley, where two roof slopes meet and channel water into the same run. In the attic, decking or insulation that gives underfoot is wet, and that moisture shows there before any mark appears on the ceiling below.
Two different offices handle the paperwork for drywall work in Splendora, and the one responsible for your property depends on where the property line falls, not on the type of work. Inside the incorporated city limits, the city handles it; outside those limits, Montgomery County does, and each office has different requirements. Your mailing address does not settle the question because the permitting boundaries do not follow the same lines as the postal system.
Addresses inside the city limits fall under the City of Splendora, which handles permitting through city hall. Its building permit requirement is broad, covering alterations, repairs and improvements as well as new construction, so interior work is not automatically exempt the way owners often assume. The city uses an outside inspection firm for inspections rather than an inspector on the city payroll, which changes who arrives on site but not what gets checked.
Because the wording is broad, the city office is the right place to confirm whether a permit is required, and that question should be settled before a start date is set rather than after materials arrive. The owner applies for the permit, or we apply on your behalf where that is how the job is handled. If we believe the work requires a permit, we tell you before we begin.
Outside the city limits, unincorporated Montgomery County reviews development rather than the building itself. There is no structural plan review for a house, and interior work on a property served by public water and sewer requires nothing from the county. Two conditions change that, and both are common on the rural side of Splendora: a property with its own on-site sewage facility, meaning a septic system instead of a sewer connection, and a property in or near the Area of Special Flood Hazard, the land identified on flood maps as likely to take water. Ask the county about both before assuming whether approval is required.
What makes this difficult to pin down is the mailing address rather than the law. A Splendora postal address extends well beyond the incorporated city limits, so the address on the envelope does not tell you which office has authority over the property. Ask the city to confirm which side of its boundary your address falls on. For work on the county side, keep the written scope and the record of what was built, and we provide both regardless of where the property sits.
FAQ
Ask who will actually be on site. On a small job, the person who quotes the work is often the same person who completes it, and that answer tells you more than a website does. The rest is straightforward to verify: insurance, a written itemized quote and a named finish level in the scope.
Quite possibly not. A Splendora mailing address extends well beyond the city limits, so the property could just as easily sit in unincorporated Montgomery County. That does not change our terms or the price we quote, but it does determine which office handles the paperwork.
Inside the city, possibly. Splendora’s permit requirement is broad enough to cover repairs and not only new building, so confirm the job with the city. Outside the city limits, Montgomery County reviews much less, though properties with septic systems or in flood zones still deserve a check. Settle that before the work is scheduled rather than after.
Yes, that is ordinary work for us, and much of what we do is outside the city limits. When you call, let us know if the final stretch is unpaved or if a gate needs to be opened, so we arrive ready to start instead of figuring out access on the day.
Usually we can. We cut out the wet board, allow the space above it to dry fully, and rebuild the damaged area. The moisture source has to be stopped and any active mold dealt with before the wall is closed. Take photographs of the stain before anything is disturbed, because an insurer asks for that record later.
Less than you are probably picturing, and nearly all of it comes from sanding rather than cutting. How much dust reaches the rest of your house depends more on how the work area connects to the next room than on how big the repair is.
Conroe Drywall Co. serves Splendora, whether you are inside the city limits or out on the county roads. The on-site visit costs you nothing, and the quote that follows is provided in writing. Tell us what happened, roughly when you first noticed the damage and whether the room needs to remain usable during the work, and we can explain what the repair will involve. Call (346) 706-5743 or send us the details through the quote form.
