Vaulted ceilings, angled walls and skylight shafts in your Palos Park home finished with straight lines and smooth faces. We tape the hard angles so the room looks clean from every chair.
Flat walls are the baseline. The skill in drywall finishing shows on a vaulted ceiling, where long seams run up a slope, and at the off-angle corners where a vault meets a wall. Those corners get adjustable bead or paper tape folded to the actual angle, and the ridge at the peak is taped and coated so it runs straight end to end. We still run three coats, sand between each and feather everything wide, and we check the slopes with a light because they catch more of it than a flat ceiling does.
Palos Park is on our regular route, coming in on Route 45, 123rd Street and McCarthy Road, and we cover the Cook County towns around the Palos and Sag Valley forest preserves. If your addition or great room was built with a vaulted ceiling and big windows toward the trees, that combination puts light on the slopes from below and the side all day. Skylight shafts are the same story, a tall, narrow box of drywall with light coming straight down it. We finish those surfaces to the level the light demands and protect the floors and windows while we work.
Long joints up the slope taped from staging and coated so the plane stays true.
Corners that are not 90 degrees finished with adjustable bead or tape folded to the real angle.
The joint at the top of a vault taped and coated straight from one end to the other.
Narrow shaft walls taped, beaded at the bottom edge and finished for light coming straight down.
Three coats spread wide and sanded between each one.
Glass, sills and floors covered before staging goes up.
We look at the ceiling heights, the angles and where the light comes from, then leave a free written estimate with staging, finish level and visits spelled out. If we find bead that was never set or a ridge that was framed out of line, we tell you, price the fix in writing and wait for your call. Drying time sets the pace between coats, and we book around the days we said. The final step is a walkthrough where we look at the slopes together in daylight.
If a vault or a skylight shaft is waiting on finish, text a photo to (815) 585-1750 or call. We put the plan in writing after we see it.
Call or text (815) 585-1750
Email matt@onitcc.com