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Drywall Service

Basement & Garage Drywall Finishing

Finishing a basement or garage adds usable square footage to your home — guest suite, home office, gym, rec room. We handle the hanging, finishing, and texture so your space is paint-ready.

Basement & Garage Finishing

What Your Finished Space Can Become

  • Guest suite or bedroom — private, finished space for visitors or a growing household.
  • Home office — a quiet, separate room away from the main floor.
  • Home gym — durable, finished walls for equipment and mirrors.
  • Rec room or home theater — a finished space for movie nights and hangouts.
  • Playroom or flex space — room that adapts as your needs change.
  • ADU or rental — finished, code-minded space that can add real value.
Finished basement drywall — taped and mudded walls and ceiling with a bare concrete floor and open stairway

Basement & Garage Finishing

What We Handle

  • Basement finishing — full walls and ceilings, including around soffits, beams, and bulkheads
  • Garage finishing — drywall for insulated, conditioned, or converted garages
  • Moisture-aware board — moisture-resistant board where below-grade conditions call for it
  • Fire separation — fire-rated board between garage and living space where code requires it

Basement & Garage Finishing

Our Process

  1. Walk-through & estimate — We plan the layout with you and quote the scope.
  2. Hanging — Panels hung around the trickier geometry basements and garages always have.
  3. Finishing — Taped, mudded, sanded smooth and paint-ready.
  4. Texture — Matched to the rest of your home or applied fresh.
  5. Paint — Optional finish coat through Wild Fox Painting.
  6. Cleanup — Dust-controlled and tidy.
Finished two-car garage with drywalled and taped walls and ceiling, recessed lights and a polished concrete floor

Basement & Garage Finishing

Basement Drywall and Moisture — Done Right

Below-grade space is a different environment than the rest of the house — cooler, and prone to humidity and the occasional bit of moisture through a foundation wall. Drywall that ignores that is drywall that grows problems, so we hang basements in a way that accounts for it.

  • Moisture-resistant board where it counts — moisture-resistant or paperless board on below-grade walls and in damp areas, where standard paper-faced board is more vulnerable.
  • Kept off the slab — board is held up off the concrete floor so wicked moisture can't soak into the bottom edge.
  • No trapped moisture — we coordinate with your framing, insulation, and vapor control so the assembly can dry rather than seal dampness inside the wall.
  • Right board for the geometry — the correct thickness and type around the beams, ducts, soffits, and bulkheads basements always have.

Basement & Garage Finishing

Fire-Rated Drywall Between Garage and Home

An attached garage shares a wall — and often a ceiling — with living space, and building code treats that boundary as a fire separation. Finishing a garage means getting that barrier right, not just covering the studs.

  • Fire-rated board where code requires it — Type X fire-rated drywall on the garage side of the shared wall, and on the garage ceiling when there's living space above.
  • Fire-taping — the joints in that barrier are taped and finished so the fire separation is continuous, not broken at every seam.
  • Proper fastening — the right fasteners and spacing so the board performs the way the rating intends.
  • Finished to your plan — whether the garage stays a garage or becomes conditioned, converted space, we finish it to match how you'll use it.

Basement & Garage Finishing

Working With Your Project

Finishing a basement often involves other trades — framing, electrical, plumbing, egress. We coordinate our drywall stage to fit cleanly into your overall timeline, whether you're managing it yourself or working with a general contractor.

Drywall + Paint. Coordinated.

Patches that disappear, not patches you live with.

Most drywall jobs end at the wall — we finish the job by texturing, priming, and repainting through Wild Fox Painting . Two specialty teams, one coordinated handoff — no visible patch. One estimate, one schedule, one point of contact.

How It Works

Related Services

Often paired with

Drywall Installation
New walls and ceilings hung and finished smooth and straight — for additions, remodels, and new builds.
Drywall Repair & Patching
Holes, cracks, water damage, settling, and door-knob dents — repaired so the fix disappears into the wall.
Texture Matching
Knockdown, orange peel, hand-texture and more — matched seamlessly to your existing finish.

Basement & Garage Finishing Service Areas

We serve

Castle Rock Castle Pines Parker Lone Tree Highlands Ranch Sedalia Sterling Ranch Roxborough Park Franktown Larkspur Littleton Centennial Greenwood Village Englewood Elizabeth Aurora Arvada Golden Lakewood Boulder Morrison Westminster

FAQ

Common questions about basement & garage finishing.

We hang, tape, mud, sand, and texture the walls and ceilings of your unfinished space — turning a bare basement or garage into finished, paint-ready rooms. We use fire-rated board where code requires it.

We handle the drywall and texture; for paint, our sister company Wild Fox Painting can prime and finish the space. Two specialty teams, one coordinated handoff — one estimate, one schedule, one point of contact.

A full basement is a larger job, scheduled over a longer window, with drying time built in between mud and texture coats. We'll give you a realistic, itemized timeline with your estimate.

Often, yes — the wall between an attached garage and the house (and the garage ceiling under living space) typically needs fire-rated drywall to meet code. We use the correct board and finish it cleanly.

Yes. Framing, electrical and plumbing rough-in, and insulation typically need to be in — and, where required, inspected — before drywall goes up, since the board covers all of it. We time our stage to start once the space is ready.

Below-grade and damp areas call for moisture-resistant or paperless board rather than standard paper-faced drywall, and we keep the board up off the concrete slab. It's a small difference in materials that makes a big difference in how the wall holds up.

Usually, yes. Code generally requires fire-rated (Type X) board on the wall between an attached garage and the house, and on the garage ceiling when there's living space above — with the joints fire-taped so the barrier is continuous. We use the correct board and finish it to code.

Absolutely. We regularly slot our drywall stage into a larger project, working around framing, electrical, plumbing, and inspections — or we can run the drywall scope on its own if you're managing the rest yourself.

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