Drywall Repair in Louisville, CO
Louisville lost 553 homes to the Marshall Fire on 30 December 2021, with a further 45 damaged. That is the heaviest structural loss of any town in the fire, more than Superior, and it still shapes what a drywall contractor gets called for here.
The town's median home was built in 1991. Louisville is twenty-eight minutes from us, which puts it at the outer boundary of where we work, and we will say so on the phone rather than in the small print.
The Marshall Fire destroyed 553 homes in Louisville and damaged 45 more, the heaviest structural loss of any town in the fire.
Where we are genuinely useful in Louisville, and where we are not
Being straightforward about this is better for both of us. At twenty-eight minutes, a single small patch in Louisville is a job where a Louisville or Lafayette contractor will serve you better, and there are good ones. We will say that when you call rather than quoting a travel premium and hoping.
Where the drive stops mattering is on anything multi-day: a rebuild finish, a full basement, a whole-house texture job, or a run of repairs batched into one visit. At that size a half hour each way is a rounding error against the work.
We do not do a Louisville job and an Arvada job in the same day. Splitting a day across that distance is how start times slip, and a slipped start time is the complaint we work hardest to avoid.
Rebuild specification, done properly
Rebuild owners in Louisville have generally read more about construction than anyone else we deal with, and the questions are better for it.
The specification points that come up most: finish level, where GA-214-2021 defines critical lighting as strong side lighting from windows or surface-mounted fixtures and non-flat paint as above 5 gloss units at 60 degrees. Ceiling board, where five-eighths or a sag-resistant half-inch panel recognised under ICC-ES ESR-3365 is the correct answer at 24 inch on centre framing with a sprayed texture. And rated assemblies at the garage, which are built to a UL design number and not to a board thickness, because gypsum board on its own carries no fire rating at all.
If you want the assemblies named on the scope letter, ask and we will put them there. It costs nothing and it makes closeout straightforward.
Louisville, briefly
Louisville is in Boulder County, incorporated in 1882, and it grew up as a coal town with mines working from 1877 into the 1950s. US 36 forms the southwestern border and it is our route in.
The old downtown around the Steinbaugh Pavilion has genuinely old building stock, which means plaster, and we will ask about that on the phone because it changes what goes in the van.
Boulder County has its own adopted code edition and its own permitting, separate from Arvada's move to the 2024 I-Codes on 1 July 2026. For anything needing a permit, confirm locally before a date is set.
What we do in Louisville
- Ceiling Repair · Sagging, cracked or holed ceilings put back and re-textured to match.
- Texture Matching · Knockdown, orange peel and skip trowel blended into what is already on your wall.
- Popcorn Ceiling Removal · Scraped, skimmed and re-textured, with the asbestos rule explained before we quote.
- Water Damage Repair · Wet board out, framing dried and metered, then rebuilt and re-textured.
- Installation & Finishing · Hanging, taping, mudding and finishing to a stated level, new build or addition.
- Basement Drywall · Hang, tape and texture for a basement finish, with the permit and egress bits flagged.
- Soundproofing · Mass, decoupling and damping done in the right order, with honest STC numbers.
- Commercial Drywall · Tenant finish, steel stud partitions and rated assemblies, built to the design number.