Taped. Mudded. Smooth.
Hand-finished drywall in Victoria, BC.
New builds, renovations and repairs — done the way it used to be done, by someone who shows up.
Drag the handle. Watch it disappear.
Same room. Same light. One is freshly taped and mudded — the other is painted, primed, and move-in ready. The difference is in the finish.
01 · Taped & mudded
02 · Painted & finished
Everything between the studs and the paint.
Drywall is a finish trade. If the taping is off, every coat of paint after it will show. We work to a standard — Level 4 as default, Level 5 when the light is brutal.
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Board & hang
Measured, cut and hung clean — screws flush, no blown paper. The part nobody sees, done properly.
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Taping & mudding
Three coats. Feathered, sanded, lamped. Flat butts, square corners, no halos where the rollers pass.
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03
Level 5 smooth-wall
A full skim over the board for glass-smooth finishes under critical light, paint sheen, or big windows.
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Texture & ceilings
Knockdown, orange peel, stipple — matched to existing. Popcorn removal where it needs to go.
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05
Repairs & patches
Door knobs, plumbing cut-outs, settling cracks, water damage. Blended so you can't tell where we were.
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New builds & renos
Whole homes, basements, additions, garages, shops. Scheduled tight with your GC or on our own.
Four steps. No surprises.
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Walk the site
We come out, measure, look at the lighting, and talk through finish level. Free, in Greater Victoria.
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Fixed quote, in writing
Board count, square footage, finish level, timeline, price. One number — not a range that creeps.
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Hang & finish
Tight schedule between coats. Dust contained. Site swept every day. Painter-ready when we leave.
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04
Walk it with a lamp
Final pass with a raking light. Anything we see, we fix on the spot. That's the whole job.
A trade that answers the phone, shows up on the day it said, and sands the corner you thought no one would check.
Owner on the wall
Josh is on every job. You're not getting the sales guy, then a sub.
Priced straight
Fixed quote. No change orders for the stuff we should have caught in the walk-through.
Clean as we go
Floors covered, outlets taped, dust contained. Your house is still your house.
Painter-ready
Handed off primed and spotless, so your painter doesn't spend day one fixing our day ten.
A room mid-finish. Before the light gets in.
Josh has been finishing drywall on this island for twelve years.
He started out framing, moved into board and tape, and stayed. He runs a small crew out of Victoria and works Greater Victoria, the Peninsula, and up-island on request.
The goal is the same on every job, whether it's a 4×8 repair in a hallway or a full new build: a wall that disappears. No telegraphed seams, no ridges under the roller, no patch you can find at breakfast.
— Josh, Dry Pro Dry Wall
Word from the walls.
Josh did our whole basement — 1,400 sq ft, Level 5 in the living room for the big south windows. You cannot find a seam. Our painter said it was the cleanest hand-off he'd had in a year.
We had three crews bail on a renovation in Oak Bay. Dry Pro started Monday, finished Friday, and the price was the price. Will use again without thinking about it.
Honestly — a trade that calls back the same day. That alone made him a keeper. The finish is what you'd hope for from someone who's done it this long.
The usual questions.
If yours isn't here, ask in the form below or on the phone. Happy to talk through it.
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What areas do you serve?
Greater Victoria as default — Saanich, Oak Bay, Esquimalt, Langford, Colwood, Sooke, Sidney and the Peninsula. Up-island (Duncan, Nanaimo) on larger jobs — ask.
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What's the difference between Level 4 and Level 5?
Level 4 is the standard residential finish — three coats of mud over tapes and screws, sanded flat. Level 5 adds a full skim coat across the whole wall, so there's no paper–mud contrast under side light or gloss paint. You want Level 5 on big south-facing walls, gloss trim, or behind TVs and mirrors.
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Do you do the painting too?
Priming, yes, if you want a painter-ready hand-off. Topcoats we hand off to a painter you pick — or we can recommend two or three we work with regularly.
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How long does a typical room take?
A single room is usually 3–5 working days — board, three coats with dry time, sand, prime. We can compress schedules for renos when the GC needs the wall ready for trades behind us.
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Are you insured?
Yes — liability and WorkSafeBC. Certificates on request before the first day.
Tell me about the job.
A few lines is plenty — square footage, how many rooms, new or reno, and roughly when. I'll come out, walk the site, and send a fixed number back within 48 hours.