Drywall Taping & Finishing in Frankfort

Finishing stairwells and two-story walls in Frankfort

Stairwells and two-story foyers are the hardest walls in a house to finish, because the seams run up past where a ladder can reach and light hits them from a window or a chandelier at every angle. We set up staging on the stairs that sits level and steady, so the top of the wall gets the same care as the bottom. Every seam gets tape and three coats, feathered and sanded, with corner bead along the stair edges and window returns. The line where the wall meets the stair treads gets finished clean so the skirt board sits tight.

Frankfort is on our regular route, reached on Route 30, Route 45, LaGrange Road and I-80, with the Old Plank Road Trail crossing town. New board in a stairwell usually comes from a remodel, a railing change or opening up a wall to the floor above. If your Frankfort home has an open foyer with a window over the door, low morning or evening sun rakes across that wall and shows any joint that sits proud. That is the wall where a level 5 skim is worth talking about, and we bring it up at the estimate instead of after the paint.

What stairwell finishing covers in Frankfort

How a Frankfort stairwell job runs

We come out, look at the walls from the landing and the bottom of the stairs, and write a free estimate that includes the staging, the finish level and the visits. If the framing up high is out of line, we show you and price the fix in writing before taping over it. We set the staging so you can still use the stairs between visits, and we come back on the days we said. When the top coat is sanded, we walk the stairs with you and look at the wall from every landing.

• Free written estimate including staging
• Safe, level staging on the stairs
• Seams finished to the top of the wall
• Straight bead at stair edges and windows
• Floors and treads covered
• Walkthrough from every landing