Garage & Lanai Drywall in Central Florida

Plenty of homes here were handed over with the garage studs bare, or with the ceiling boarded and the walls left open. Finishing it is one of the cheapest things you can do to make a garage usable - it cuts the dust, it stops the heat radiating straight through, and it gives you something to mount shelving to.

Garages have their own rules. The wall between the garage and the house, and the ceiling under living space, are fire separation assemblies - that generally means 5/8" type X board, and the joints have to be finished, not just screwed up and left. Getting that wrong is the kind of thing that surfaces at resale, on an inspection report, at the worst possible moment.

Enclosed lanais are the other common job. A lanai conversion sits in a high-humidity wall assembly, so standard board on an exterior-facing lanai wall is asking for trouble - we use moisture-resistant board where it belongs and we will say where we think a vapour problem is being built in rather than solved.

Most single garages finish in two to three days including drying time. We texture to match the house if it adjoins finished space, or leave it clean and simple if it is purely a garage.