Conroe Drywall Co. is a drywall contractor serving Willis, Texas. Most weeks, our drywallers handle drywall repair, ceiling repair and texture matching in occupied homes, along with full drywall installation and light commercial interiors that start from bare framing. We hang and finish drywall to ASTM C840, the published standard for how gypsum board is fastened and how the joints are finished.
Willis has been building steadily since 1870, and its homes show every stage of that history in their walls. Newer houses have gypsum board behind the paint, while the oldest homes have lath and plaster. Those are different wall systems, not two finishes over the same surface, and each one is repaired differently, so the first thing we determine at your house is which type you have.
Willis sits eight miles north of Conroe, and we work across Conroe, Montgomery County and the surrounding communities. Call us at (346) 706-5743 or send the quote form, and we will come look at the wall.
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Willis is the largest town Conroe Drywall Co. serves outside Conroe itself, and it has the widest range of building eras we work on, from interiors finished before drywall came into common use to rooms completed last year. That is why owners here look for a drywall contractor who works on both older and newer walls week in and week out instead of one focused only on new construction. We have worked on both for over 15 years. We are insured and follow established industry practices, including ASTM C840 standards for gypsum board installation and finishing.
In Texas, plenty of people call drywall sheetrock, so if you have been looking for sheetrock contractors, you are looking for the same trade and the same panels we hang and finish. Four habits apply to every age of house we open up:
Our on-site estimates are free, and financing is available for larger projects. Call us at (346) 706-5743 or send the quote form to get one booked. We also work up the interstate in New Waverly.
Our Services
Everything below is work we handle across Willis, from residential drywall in the houses behind the original town to the same trade in the shops and offices along the highway. Drywall installation on bare framing and drywall repair in finished rooms make up much of our calendar.
A house that has been on the same Willis lot for decades moves with the seasons, and that movement shows up as nail pops, the small round bumps where a fastener pushes the surface out, and hairline cracks above doors. We cut back to sound board, add backing behind the opening, tape the repair and float it flat with joint compound.
Some of the oldest houses in Willis still have their original plaster, and most of it remains sound except where it has pulled loose from the lath, the wooden strips nailed across the framing that support it. We secure those loose areas back to the lath and rebuild the plaster coat over them so the original surface stays in place.
A remodel that opens up a room leaves the framing bare, and a new house reaches the same stage before drywall goes on. In either case, the work follows the same sequence: gypsum board is screwed to the wall studs and ceiling framing on a set pattern, the joints are taped, the surfaces are floated flat and the finish texture is applied. Subdivision sections in Willis are platted a year or two apart, so two streets in the same neighborhood can be at different stages of construction at the same time.
Newer houses settle during their first years, and a ceiling crack will run the length of a framing bay along the timber above. We first determine whether the cause is movement, a fastener or a break in the board, then fix that before repairing the surface. Where a ceiling has come down completely because of a leak or a remodel, we fasten new board to the joists, then tape, float and texture it.
The sprayed, bumpy ceilings in older Willis houses need to be handled according to their age, because that determines what is in the texture. 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. Once cleared, the ceiling is scraped back to the bare board and refinished smooth.
Board that has been soaked shows clear damage: the face softens, the edges swell, and the problem spreads behind the paint. We remove damaged, swollen or contaminated panels, then evaluate the remaining board after the moisture source is stopped and the cavity reads dry. New drywall goes in where needed. The moisture source has to be stopped and any active mold dealt with before the wall is closed. Where a room calls for it we hang moisture- and mold-resistant board, while a tiled shower surround needs the proper backer and waterproofing system instead.
The wall that gives trouble in Willis is rarely a new one by itself. The challenge is matching a new wall to an older one that already has an established texture. We build the surface up with coats of joint compound, spray on the texture and, where the adjoining wall requires it, flatten the spray into a knockdown finish.
Fresh joint compound absorbs paint at a different rate from the surrounding wall, so we prime the whole surface until it takes color evenly and hand it over at that stage. Wallpaper left in place long enough pulls the drywall face off with it, so removing the paper and repairing the surface are part of the same job.
The storefronts and small offices along the through-traffic side of Willis take more wear than a house and are usually fitted out to a set deadline. Many have suspended ceilings, with a metal grid hung below the structure and lightweight panels set into the openings. We are called to repair stained or sagging panels and grids that have been pulled out of level.
A tenant space in Willis usually needs its walls laid out before any drywall goes on, and steel framing is standard for commercial interiors. We fasten steel track along the floor and ceiling, then set the studs at the spacing shown on the drawings. The same work divides one oversized bedroom, or a suite delivered as a shell, into two usable rooms that are finished and textured to match the surrounding surfaces.
Where two tenants share one building, the wall between them has to resist fire for a set number of hours, and that rating depends on the full wall assembly rather than any single sheet. We rebuild it to the tested assembly, using the specified board in the specified layers and treating every joint and penetration. The same basic approach improves sound control, and a bedroom beside an attached garage gets insulation in the cavity and denser board on the room side.
An addition that was closed in without insulation behind the drywall runs hot in a Texas summer and stays noisy year-round, even though you cannot see the empty cavity from the room. Where the wall is already open, or once we open it for the repair, we fit insulation between the studs before installing the new board.
Newer houses around Willis are built with arches between rooms, recessed hallway niches and ceilings that step up in the center. Each feature is framed first, then covered with drywall cut to fit the shape and finished into the surrounding flat surface so the edges do not show. Older kitchens hide ducts and pipes inside boxed enclosures above the cabinets, and we rebuild those the same way during an update.
The oldest and newest interiors we work on in Willis are only a few miles apart. When a wall in one of the older houses is damaged, you have two choices: repair the existing wall as it is, or remove it and replace it with gypsum board, the paper-faced panel used for most walls in newer houses.
An older wall in Willis is usually gypsum plaster over lath. Where the plaster and lath around the damaged area are still sound, we can repair the wall in place instead of stripping it out, and many owners are never told that keeping the original wall is an option.
Staying in kind keeps the wall the thickness it already is, and you can see what that is worth from inside the room. The reveals at your doors and windows stay as deep as they are, and the trim and casings meet the wall where they have always met it. Nothing around the repair has to be reset to suit a new surface.
Gypsum board is the right choice when too little sound material remains to repair. Where the plaster has separated from the lath across a large area, there is no solid base left to work from, so sheetrock contractors take the wall back to the framing and rebuild the surface with new board.
That choice affects more of the room, so it is worth understanding before the work starts. Replacing the wall means opening a larger area, removing and reinstalling the trim, and matching the finish across the full surface instead of only a patch. There is no single rule for old houses in Willis; the right approach depends on the condition of the wall you have.
Interstate 45 and the Union Pacific line both run north to south through Willis, and the buildings we work in fall into three main groups around them. Commercial properties line the highway, others sit near the tracks, and residential streets fill the areas behind both. Getting materials and a crew to a wall in one of those settings is different from working in another.
A shop or office on the frontage cannot close for a week while a wall is rebuilt, so we schedule the work around the parts of the building that need to stay in use. Dust containment goes up before the first cut so debris from opening the wall stays inside the work area. After-hours and phased scheduling let us finish one section at a time while the business keeps using the rest. Call Conroe Drywall Co. at (346) 706-5743 to talk through how your building would be staged.
The residential grid sits on older, narrower streets where some houses have no driveway, and the turn off the frontage road can be the hardest part of getting materials in. Long drywall panels are best for ceilings and long wall runs, but they will not make every corner. A long sheet cannot be swung around a tight stair landing or carried through a doorway set at an angle to the hall.
So we check the access route during the estimate, from where the truck can park to the doorway of the room itself, and order board in sizes that will actually fit through. If a full sheet cannot make the turn, we tell you during the visit rather than discovering it when the material arrives.
Willis was incorporated as a general-law city in 1937, and after its population passed five thousand, it adopted a home-rule charter in 2008. For an owner, that means the city handles its own permits and inspections under its local authority rather than operating only under the powers the state gives a smaller general-law city.
Plans for work inside the city limits are reviewed by the City of Willis, and any required inspection is handled by a city inspector. Properties in unincorporated Montgomery County go through a different office, with different staff and rules, even when they are only a few minutes away. Because the city limits change as Willis annexes nearby land, the process a neighbor followed years ago may not be the one that applies to your property now.
That is why we ask instead of assuming. Interior drywall work does not always require the same permits or inspections as structural work, and the answer depends on which authority covers your address and what the job involves. We check with the office that would handle the work before planning around a guess, then tell you what they require.
FAQ
Most drywall repairs in Conroe run $250 to $1,800, with the average job landing near $600. Where your repair falls within that range depends on access, the size of the damaged area and how much surrounding texture has to be matched, so the final price is set after the on-site estimate.
No. Move anything fragile or irreplaceable, and we handle the rest. Furniture goes to the center of the room and is covered, floors are protected, and the work area is sealed off from the rest of the house before the first cut. The exception is a room where the entire ceiling is coming down, and we will tell you during the estimate if that applies to your job.
That is most of the work we are called for downtown. A house that old has almost always been worked on more than once, so the same address often has both plaster and drywall. What we find in one room does not tell us what is behind the walls in the next.
Working around a builder is its own kind of booking, and it is not the same as a repair in a finished house. We take a room once the other trades are clear of it, because our surfaces are the ones everything else gets fixed to or painted over. That means our date is set against their progress on site, and we hold a window rather than a fixed morning.
Both, and commercial work is a regular part of what we do. On a leased space, we can quote whichever party is paying for the fit-out, whether that is the owner or the tenant.
Yes, and on a wall that has been patched several times, replacing the damaged board is often cheaper. Every patch creates another edge that has to be feathered into the surrounding surface, and those layers build up until the repaired area starts to show. How many times that spot has already been filled is what determines whether we patch it again or cut out the board and replace it with a clean sheet.
A free on-site estimate means someone from Conroe Drywall Co. comes to your property in Willis, looks at the actual wall and prices the work from what is there rather than from a description over the phone. After the visit, you get a written price and scope that clearly sets out what the job includes. Call (346) 706-5743 or use our quote form for a clear price on your project.
