Finished walls without a film of dust across the rest of the house. We tape and finish new drywall in Palatine while you keep living there.
Drywall finishing usually happens while the family is still home, with kids, pets and dinner going on two rooms away. That is why we treat sanding as the step to plan around. Doorways get zippered plastic, the floors and the path in get covered, and we use vacuum sanding wherever the surface allows it. The finishing itself is the same three-coat process on every seam, corner and screw head, sanded between coats until the joints vanish under paint.
We work in Palatine every week, coming up Route 53 and getting around on Rand Road, Northwest Highway and Dundee Road, from the streets near Harper College to the blocks around downtown and the Metra station. If you are finishing a Palatine basement or a new room through the winter, the furnace dries the air and compound can skin over on top while it is still soft underneath. We keep the heat steady and check that each coat is dry through before anyone sands it. In humid summer weather the opposite happens and drying slows, so the schedule shifts with the season.
The work area is sealed off with plastic and a zipper door, so you can still get through without letting the dust out.
Floors in the room and the route in from the door stay covered for the whole job.
Sanders hooked to a vacuum where the surface allows it, which keeps much less dust in the air.
Seams, corners and fasteners taped and coated three times, with sanding between coats.
Heat and humidity kept steady so each coat dries through, winter or summer, before it is sanded.
When the last coat is sanded, the plastic comes down and the room is left cleaner than we found it.
We walk the space, ask how your household moves through it and write an estimate that covers the protection, the finish level and the visit days. If you want another room added or a skim on a wall that gets strong light, we price that in writing and wait for your go-ahead. Visits land on days that work for your household, and the gaps between them are the drying time the compound needs. After the last coat, we pull the plastic, clean up and walk the room with you.
Call or text (815) 585-1750 and tell us about the room and who is living around it. We will look in person and write it up.
Call or text (815) 585-1750
Email matt@onitcc.com