Drywall Contractor & Drywall Repair in Splendora, TX | The Woodlands Drywall Co.
The Woodlands Drywall Co. is a drywall contractor serving Splendora, Texas, with 20 years of work behind us. Most calls are for drywall repair, whether that means fixing a hole punched through a wall, rebuilding a corner that has been knocked loose, or repairing a ceiling left stained and sagging after water came in from above. Finishing and texture matching come close behind, with the goal of blending the patch into the surrounding wall so the repair does not show once the paint is on. We apply joint compound over the seam, shape the surface to match the pattern already on your wall, and sand it smooth.
We also hang new drywall, repair ceilings, and work on plaster in older houses. Beyond that, we handle commercial interiors, framing, and finishing for new construction. Wall smoothness is measured by finish level, and the Gypsum Association publishes the GA-214 standard the trade uses to quote those levels.
Splendora is a mostly rural town along the US 59 corridor, about 20 miles east of our home base, and it falls within the Montgomery and Harris County area we already serve every week. We are insured, the on-site estimate is free, and the itemized written quote reaches you within 24 hours.
Call us at (346) 248-4075 or use the quote form for a free on-site estimate.
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Why Splendora Homeowners Call Our Drywall Contractors
Splendora is within the area we cover, so the drive out here is part of the job rather than a favor we are doing you. We come to your property and inspect the work at no charge, whether you hire us or not, and the fixed price we provide afterward is itemized line by line.
A few details about how The Woodlands Drywall Co. works matter directly on a job in a town this size, and each one gives you something concrete to check or plan around.
- We have spent 20 years working in occupied homes and commercial interiors, including rooms people are still living in while the work is underway.
- We are insured, and you are welcome to verify that before we begin.
- Within 24 hours of the visit, you receive a written quote with every line item clearly named.
- The quote specifies a finish level from GA-214, the Gypsum Association's published levels of finish, so the degree of smoothness is a priced choice.
- Level 4 is our baseline; where hard light rakes across a wall, we quote a Level 5 skim, which adds a thin coat over the entire surface.
- Financing is available for qualifying work.
- The person who walks the job and prices it also runs the crew that completes it.
In an occupied room, we hang dust barriers, seal the doorways, and sand with a vacuum attached to the sander, so the dust is pulled away with the tool instead of settling throughout the house. For our residential drywall contractors, that dust control is part of the standard scope rather than an added line item.
A phone call to (346) 248-4075 or the quote form is all it takes to book your free estimate. We also serve as a drywall contractor in New Caney, farther down US 59 toward Houston.
Drywall Contractor Services Across Splendora, Texas
Splendora grew up around the railroad in the 1880s, and much of the town never developed into subdivision streets. Houses here sit on acreage, a handful of storefronts line the old highway along the US 59 corridor, and some interiors were finished before gypsum board became the standard wall surface. That mix means the same list of drywall work can involve very different conditions from one property to the next.
A hole in a wall may look simple from the room, but behind it you might find modern board, wood lath from a much older building, or open framing in a space that was never finished. The drywall services below cover all of those walls and ceilings, and we handle every one of them, so you do not need one trade to patch a room and another to hang the board beside it.
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Drywall Repair
Most of what we patch is everyday damage on a typical interior wall: holes, knocked corners, and fasteners that have pushed their heads through the paint. We cut the damaged area back to board that is still firmly attached, which is usually farther out than the visible damage suggests, then tape the new piece in place with paper tape and joint compound.
Feathering is the part of the repair you will notice most. It means spreading each coat wider and thinner than the one beneath it, so the finished patch has no raised edge for the light to catch. Where a corner has been knocked out of line, we replace the corner bead, the metal or plastic strip that gives an outside corner its straight edge. If the hole was caused by something behind the wall, tell us when you call, because that changes how much of the wall we open up.
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Water Damage Drywall Repair
A roof leak or burst water line in a house that has been closed up for a day soaks farther than the visible stain suggests. Before we replace any board, we use a moisture meter to establish how far the dampness actually reached, then cut above the wet line rather than stopping at the edge of the staining.
Board installed in a room with a history of damp is mold-resistant board, made with a facing that does not feed mold the way ordinary paper does. Where you cannot wait days for each coat to dry, we use setting-type compound, which hardens through a chemical reaction on a fixed schedule rather than by evaporation. Photograph the damage before you call us, because your insurer will want that record and the repair will cover it up.
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Drywall Finishing & Texture
Finishing is the coating work that takes bare board to a paint-ready surface, while texture is the pattern applied over it. In Splendora, that ranges from a hand-troweled finish on an older wall to a builder's sprayed knockdown, which is applied with a hopper gun and then flattened with a blade. Orange peel is the finer spray texture, named for its resemblance to the skin of the fruit.
We match the texture already on your wall and check the result in raking light, using a lamp held close to the surface and aimed across it so every ridge casts a shadow. A repair that disappears from the doorway can still show at seven in the evening. If your existing texture is unusual, we spray a sample panel first and let you review the match before we touch the room.
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Drywall Installation
When a space has only ever been open framing, whether it is a shop, a bonus room over the garage, or an addition built a piece at a time, we hang the board, tape it, and finish it. We choose the board based on how the room is used rather than on the lowest price, so half-inch board goes on most walls, while moisture-resistant board, designed for damp air rather than for the mold that follows a leak, goes wherever humidity is a permanent part of the room.
Where the new work meets an already finished wall, we blend the two surfaces together so the junction disappears once the paint is on. Tell us how the room will be used before we order the material, because a workshop and a bedroom require different board.
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Ceiling Repair
Ceilings show trouble before walls do, and in a long rural room the span between supports is greater, so any weakness in the fastening shows up as a dip. We repair stains, sags, and seams that have opened overhead. A panel that has pulled away from the ceiling joist, the timber it is screwed to, is refastened or replaced rather than simply filled and coated, because compound adds weight to a surface that is already failing to hold itself up. We identify the cause of the problem before closing the surface. If your ceiling stain is growing from week to week, tell us, because a dry stain and an active one require different work.
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Popcorn Ceiling Removal
We remove sprayed acoustic texture from a dated ceiling and return the surface to flat. Acoustic texture is the bumpy white coating that was sprayed on ceilings for decades. Before anything comes down, we seal the floors and doorways with containment sheeting, then skim the ceiling with compound and prime it afterward with PVA primer, a sealer made for fresh compound. If a scraped ceiling is not skimmed, every trowel mark shows once the paint goes on.
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Plaster Repair
A plaster wall will not hold a drywall patch. We re-anchor loose plaster to the lath, cut back to material that is still sound, apply a bonding agent so the new material grips the old surface, and rebuild the finish until it sits level with the surrounding wall.
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Commercial Drywall Services
We work in storefronts and small business buildings along the old highway around the hours each business keeps. In occupied premises, we phase the interior work so one area is being worked on while the rest stays open, and we leave the floor clean at the end of every working day. A demising wall is the wall that separates two tenancies, and some walls are built as a fire-rated assembly, a specified combination of framing, board, and fasteners tested to hold fire back for a set period. We invoice per space, so a manager can file the bill without having to translate it first.
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Metal Stud Framing
Steel track and stud replace timber where a commercial interior calls for it and where damp or unconditioned spaces would leave wood swelling and twisting. We set the layout off the finished face rather than the framing face, using a laser level, because that is the surface your eye sees and your fittings meet. The framing is left ready for board without needing a second pass to straighten it.
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New Construction Drywall
On newer homes going up at the edge of town, we take the interior from bare framing to a paint-ready surface. Ceilings go up first, followed by the walls, with seams staggered so no joint runs the full height or length of a room. Before the first coat goes on, we put in writing whether the job calls for a Level 4 finish or a Level 5 skim.
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Ceiling Drywall Installation
New ceilings need board specified for the framing spacing it spans, because a panel has no support beneath it and will sag between supports if it is too thin. We fasten it so the surface stays flat under its own weight and run the seams away from the room's main sightline. A butt joint, where two cut ends meet without a tapered edge to hide the tape, is the hardest joint to disguise, so we place it where the light does not rake across the surface.
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Partition Wall Installation
Dividing a space that was built as one room, whether it is a shop, converted garage, or long back room, means building a new wall inside it and finishing it to match the surrounding space. We set the top plate against the existing ceiling and tie the new wall into the ceiling and floor lines so it looks built in rather than added later. Stud spacing is set for what the wall will carry, and openings are framed for the doors the space needs. Decide where those doors will go before we start, because moving one afterward means opening the wall again.
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Drywall Priming & Painting
Fresh compound absorbs paint at a different rate from the surrounding board, which is why PVA primer over new compound is part of our standard scope rather than an extra. Without it, you get flashing, with dull patches showing exactly where the repair was made. Finish painting is quoted as a separate line and never assumed, so you can include it or hand a primed, even surface to whoever will do the painting.
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Wallpaper Removal
We remove the paper and adhesive rather than painting over them, because old paste bleeds through paint and the seams show through the finish. A wallpaper steamer softens the paste, and if the paper face, the thin cardboard layer on the front of the board, tears away with the wallpaper, we repair that damage first. We then skim and prime the wall to leave an even surface. What sits beneath old wallpaper is rarely ready for paint.
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Drywall Soffits & Bulkheads
A bulkhead is the boxed-in shape that hides ductwork, a beam, or a run of pipe near the ceiling. We frame and board it, and in an older building that means working to what is actually there rather than what the plan says, keeping our lines straight even when the building itself is not. We run a straightedge along the finished faces and bead the corners so the box looks like part of the room instead of something added into it.
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Soundproof Drywall Systems
A quieter wall comes from the full assembly, not simply a thicker sheet. Sound travels through the framing as well as the surface, so we break that path with resilient channel, hanging the board on thin sprung metal instead of directly against the studs. We seal the edges with acoustic sealant because a gap lets noise through much like an open window. Sound-damping panel goes on the face. Before the wall is closed, we set the target using the STC rating, a single number for how much noise a wall assembly stops, because every decision needed to reach that target has to be made in advance. We build the whole assembly, so nobody is left arguing about which layer failed.
A Railroad Town With a General Store From 1883
Splendora began as a railway switch on the Houston, East and West Texas Railway, first known as Cox's Switch after Charles Cox, who suggested the name. W. W. Burrow opened a general store here in 1883, and in 1896 the town became Splendora, a name chosen for the flora growing around it.
Some of what is still standing today was finished long before gypsum board became the normal interior surface. Almost every modern wall uses gypsum board, with paper facing on both sides. In those older buildings, behind the paint you are more likely to find wood lath, thin wooden strips nailed across the framing, with plaster pressed over them. The wet plaster squeezed through the gaps between the strips and hardened into plaster keys, the small hooks that hold the surface to the wall.
That is the practical difference between a simple patch and a larger project. Plaster repair requires a bonding agent, a liquid that helps new material grip the old surface, along with careful work around plaster keys that have already broken. Gypsum board is cut, screwed, and taped. When a drywall contractor opens a wall expecting one material and finds the other, the scope changes, which is why we determine what is behind your paint before giving you a price or a finish date.
How We Find Out What the Wall Is
A painted surface tells you very little about what is behind it. An exposed edge, a cut-out, or the small gap behind a switch plate reveals the material and its thickness, while an existing patch shows what the last repair was made from. We check those details during the estimate visit instead of judging by the building's age, because houses here have been altered room by room for a century.
What we find determines the work. Gypsum board means cutting back to a solid edge and taping in a new piece, while plaster means re-anchoring anything loose before filling begins and spending more time rebuilding the wall. You see that difference as a line in the quote rather than as a surprise halfway through the job.
Cracks in a Building Older Than Drywall
Where a crack sits and the direction it runs are clues about what is moving, not a diagnosis. A hairline seam that has opened is cut back, reinforced, and coated, then watched over the following months to see whether it returns. A crack that is wide, keeps coming back after repair, or has two sides that no longer line up can warrant evaluation by another qualified professional before the surface is closed again, and we will tell you that rather than simply cover it. Old buildings move, and movement by itself is not a defect.
Free Quote FormWhere We Work Around Splendora
A town this size has only a handful of named subdivisions, including the two below, along with the old commercial core on the highway. Most properties here have no development name attached to them, so we work from roads and addresses instead. What changes from one part of town to another is the age of the wall behind the paint, and that is what determines how a repair is made.
The Canopies: A Patch That Has to Disappear Into a New Wall
The Canopies is the newest housing in Splendora, a recently built master-planned subdivision near the school district's athletic facilities. One builder completed every house there, so the same sprayed wall texture repeats from street to street. Knockdown texture is compound sprayed onto the wall and flattened while still wet, and the size of those flattened patches varies between crews and tools. Before we touch a visible wall, we spray a sample with a hopper gun and compare it with the existing texture under raking light.
Peach Creek Estates: Wet Walls and Ceilings After a Leak
Peach Creek Estates is a platted addition in the Splendora area, on the Peach Creek side and beyond the city's own few square miles, with Peach Creek Elementary serving the area in the same school district. Calls here usually follow a leak that was discovered late rather than a crack. Water travels down inside a wall cavity and spreads well beyond the stain you can see, so we check the area first with a moisture meter. Held against the surface, the meter shows what is still damp underneath and lets us mark the true wet line. Board goes back only after the framing behind it reads dry, and we use mold-resistant board with setting-type compound.
Old Highway 59 and FM 2090: Storefront Interiors in the Original Town Center
FM 2090 runs west from US 59 and carries many of the town's schools and businesses, while the older commercial core follows the old highway instead of gathering around a square. In those storefronts, the sales floor is also the working space because there is no back room for stacking board or staging tools. A demising wall can still go up while both businesses remain open, with containment sheeting closing off the work area and the noisier stages held until after hours. Corner bead protects the exposed edges from the bumps and knocks that come with a busy shop floor.
Mostly Rural, and What That Means for a One-Room Job
The census counts about seventy-two percent of Splendora's residents as rural. Across that land, houses went up one at a time, built by different crews in different decades, so the wall in your living room may have little in common with one half a mile away. That is why even a single room deserves its own quote. A small drywall repair in one bedroom is ordinary work here, not a job too minor to send someone out for, and we price it from the room in front of us rather than from anything we have seen down the road.
No Reference House Next Door
In a tract of matching houses, the house next door answers many of the questions a drywall specialist has about what is behind your wall: the same framing spacing, the same thickness of gypsum board, and the same year of construction. Out here, nothing else does that work for us, so we measure the room and read what is actually there: how the board was hung, where it has moved, how the surface was finished, and how far the damage extends beyond what you can see. That is what the price is built on. An estimate based on assumptions is the one that changes once the work starts.
You Set the Scope, Not a Builder or an Association
Out here, there is rarely a builder specification left to satisfy or an architectural committee reviewing the finish. We quote the work you actually asked for and write it out as a scope you can read line by line. One room can be finished now and another next year without interfering with anyone else's plan.
If you have a single room that needs attention, call us at (346) 248-4075 or send the details through our quote form, and we will price that room as its own job.
The Far End of the Service Area, and How We Schedule It
Splendora sits about 20 miles east of The Woodlands along the US 59 corridor, and that distance affects how we schedule the work. A drive that long is not something a crew squeezes into the hour between two other stops, so The Woodlands Drywall Co. plans a Splendora job into its own working day. That is how we handle a town at the edge of our service range: you know when we are coming and what the day will involve, rather than waiting to see whether anyone makes the drive.
What One Trip Out Here Covers
The estimate visit costs you nothing, and we inspect the wall in person rather than guessing from a description. Photographs help us give you an early price range over the phone, which is useful when you need to know whether the job is a small patch or a whole ceiling, but we do not give a firm price until we have seen the damage ourselves. An itemized written quote follows within 24 hours of that visit, and if several rooms need work, we cover all of them in the same trip.
Fitting a Splendora Job Into the Week
We work Monday to Saturday, 8am to 6pm. If the damage is still getting worse, we will come the same day or the next day when an opening allows it. A slot you book is a planned crew day, not a gap squeezed between two other jobs. Tell us up front if water is still getting in, because that changes the order of the work. Booking ahead matters more here than it does closer to our base.
To get on the schedule, reach us at (346) 248-4075, or fill in the quote form with what needs doing.
Drywall Questions From Splendora Owners
Do you actually cover Splendora, or only The Woodlands?
Yes, we cover Splendora. The town sits about 20 miles east of us along the US 59 corridor and is part of our regular service area, not a special arrangement for jobs in that direction. We come out to inspect the work and price it at no charge, on the same terms we offer everywhere else we serve.
Will you take a one-room job, or only whole houses?
Yes, a single room is ordinary work for us. If several rooms need attention, we can inspect them all during the same visit, so tell us everything that needs to be done when you call rather than mentioning only the worst area.
Our building is one of the older ones on the old highway. Can you patch a wall that is not drywall?
Yes, we repair walls that are not gypsum board. Older buildings here often have plaster applied over thin wood strips behind the paint, and a wall built that way requires a plaster repair rather than a drywall patch. We check the material at an exposed edge or an opening for a switch or outlet, so the quote clearly identifies the type of repair your wall needs.
How far ahead should I book if I am in Splendora?
Book as soon as the damage has stopped getting worse, and call sooner if it is still active. Urgent damage moves up the schedule, and when an opening is available, we will be out within a day of your call.
Is there an extra charge for driving out this far?
No, we do not add a travel charge for coming out to Splendora, and the visit to inspect the work is free anywhere within the area we cover. Anything that affects your price appears as its own line in the written quote, which reaches you within 24 hours of the visit, so you see every cost before agreeing to the work.
Do you paint the wall after you repair it?
Primer over the new compound is included, while the finish coats are quoted as a separate line. We leave the surface primed and ready for paint, so you can have us handle that final step or turn the wall over to your own painter. Tell us when you call if you want the painting included in the price.
Get a Free Drywall Estimate in Splendora
An estimate visit means a drywall contractor comes to your property in Splendora, looks at the wall or ceiling in question, and prices the work from what is there rather than from a description. Tell us what needs doing on (346) 248-4075, or through the quote form, and we will arrange a time to come out.