Drywall Repair and Finishing in Arvada, CO

Arvada is brick ranches. Thousands of them, built from the 1950s through the 70s, most with a basement that got finished a decade or two after the house went up — panelling, then drywall, then whatever the last owner did — and is now due again.

The other constant is the ceilings. Popcorn went up across the whole mid-century stock here, and scraping it is usually the start of a job rather than the end of one, because what is underneath was never finished to be looked at.

Why local knowledge matters in Arvada

These houses have been moving on the clay under them for sixty years, and they move in the same places: over the doorways and at the corners of the windows. A crack there is not a filling job. It comes back unless the tape is cut out and the joint is re-taped, and that is the difference between fixing it and repainting it every two years.

The mature trees and older gutters add the second pattern — ice dams at the eaves, and stains that appear on the ceiling along the outside walls rather than in the middle of a room.

• Brick ranches from the 1950s through the 70s, most with basements that were finished a decade or two after the house was built and are now due again
• Olde Town and the blocks around it carry older stock where settlement has worked the same door corners for decades
• Popcorn ceilings across the mid-century housing, where scraping is usually the start of the job rather than the end
• Mature trees and older gutters mean ice dams at the eaves, and the stains show up on the ceiling along the exterior walls

Neighbourhoods we work in: Olde Town, Arvada West, Lamar Heights, Ralston Valley, Candelas.