Walls in your Lemont home that stay smooth even when afternoon sun rakes across them. We tape and finish new board to the level the light in each room calls for.
Drywall finishers talk about levels, and the level decides how much shows through the paint. A level 4 finish, with tape, bead and three coats sanded smooth, is right for most painted walls in flat or eggshell paint. A level 5 adds a thin skim coat over the entire surface, which evens out the texture of the paper and the compound so strong side light has nothing to catch. We tell you which rooms need which, and why, before any compound goes on.
Lemont is on our regular route, up I-355 and along Route 171 and Lemont Road on the Cook County side of the Des Plaines River. If your Lemont house sits on a hillside with a walkout lower level, the big windows and patio doors throw low light straight down the length of the basement walls. That raking light shows every joint a level 4 can leave behind. A walkout family room is one of the places we are most likely to recommend the skim coat, and we show you why on the wall itself.
Tape, bead and three coats sanded smooth for walls that get flat or eggshell paint.
A thin coat of compound over the whole wall for rooms with strong side light or a glossy paint.
Full-length lower-level walls finished so the joints stay hidden in window light.
Drywall returns around windows and patio doors taped and beaded so the lines run straight.
Each coat sanded flat, with vacuum sanders where they fit, before the next one goes on.
The finished board primed so the topcoat looks the same over compound and paper.
A free on-site estimate comes first, written room by room with the finish level spelled out, so you know where the skim coat goes and where it does not. If you decide partway through that another room should get a level 5, we price that change in writing and you approve it before we do it. Every coat needs drying time, and we schedule the visits around it so the crew shows up on the days we said. Before primer, we walk the walls with you and hold a light at the same angle the sun comes in.
Call or text (815) 585-1750 and we will come look at the board and the windows. You get a written estimate that says which rooms get which finish.
Call or text (815) 585-1750
Email matt@onitcc.com