Boerne Drywall 830-357-7353
Interior of a house under construction with pale gray board hung across the studs of two rooms and a hallway, the joints open, daylight coming through an unglazed opening and the slab bare and swept

New Construction Drywall in Boerne, TX for Builders and Custom Homes

Hang and finish on open framing, priced by the foot off your plans, worked in around the trades ahead of us and the ones stacked up behind.

Call Us Now! 830-357-7353Get a FREE Quote Today!
Interior of a house under construction with pale gray board hung across the studs of two rooms and a hallway, the joints open, daylight coming through an unglazed opening and the slab bare and swept

Drywall on a House That Is Still Being Built

Boerne Drywall boards and finishes houses nobody has moved into yet. New construction drywall in Boerne, TX is volume work: open framing, a full set of walls and ceilings, and a builder's schedule that everything behind us gets measured against.

You can buy it two ways and we work either way. Some jobs come to us as hang and finish, one crew from bare studs to a surface your painters can prime. Others come as hang only, with the taping and finishing bid separately, and that's common enough in Texas that we price it as a matter of course.

What you get either way is a takeoff you can check and a rate per square foot of board rather than a lump sum. You'll also get a straight answer about what has to be in place before we start, because most of what goes wrong on a new build gets settled before anybody picks up a sheet.

Why Boarding an Empty House Costs Less

Boarding a house with nothing in it is the least expensive drywall work there is per square foot, and the reasons are worth saying out loud. There's no furniture to move and cover, no containment to build in a room somebody lives in, no existing finish to blend into and no old board to strip off first. We can work the whole house as one continuous run, and that's most of why your rate comes in below the same square footage in an occupied house.

What we want in place before we hang board

Framing complete and straight, wire and pipe run and protected where they cross a stud, insulation done, and the house closed up so it's dry inside. Blocking in for anything that gets screwed to a wall later. A stud sitting a quarter of an inch proud reads straight through your finished surface, so an hour with a string line beats three coats of compound afterward.

Hang and finish, or hang the board only

Hang only means we get board up, square and screwed off, and your taping contractor takes it from there. Hang and finish means one crew from bare framing to a wall your painters can work on. Neither one is right for every house. If you've got a lot of trades running at once, having one point of contact is worth real money. If you already have a finishing crew you trust, splitting it is sensible and we'll bid it that way.

What We Work Out Before Pricing New Construction Drywall

The square footage of board off your plans, walls and ceilings both, rather than the floor area
Ceiling heights, and how much of the house runs above standard
Which finish level is specified, and whether any of it is going to level 5
Whether you want hang and finish or hang only, and who picks up the finish if not us
What access the house has, and where your board and compound can sit once delivered
Which trades are working alongside us, and what has to be protected while we're there

Where Drywall Sits in a Builder's Schedule

Drywall lands at the point in a build where everything upstream has to be finished and everything downstream is waiting on it. Framing, wire, pipe and insulation come ahead of us, and trim, doors, cabinets and paint all wait on us. So if the drywall slips, everything behind it slips too, and your schedule moves with it.

Bare wood studs of an unfinished wall with electrical cable and copper pipe run through them and protected by steel plates, a stack of pale gray sheets lying flat on the floor beyond

Hanging board scales with the house and finishing does not

A bigger house takes proportionally longer to hang, which is what you'd expect. Finishing works differently, because each coat has to dry before the next one goes over it, and that wait is the same whether the house is fifteen hundred square feet or three thousand. So a small house is never proportionally quicker, and if you want time out of the drywall, the thing to work on is keeping the house dry and the air moving.

Working drywall in around the other trades

The things that hold drywall up on a busy site are usually not drywall problems at all. Board gets stacked flat on a slab that's still giving off moisture. Sheets end up standing in the one room the electricians need that morning, or compound goes on before the house is closed up. We'd rather settle all of that with you over the plans than find it on the day.

How We Bid New Construction Drywall

Per square foot of board is how new construction gets bought, and it's how we bid it. What moves your house inside the band is the shape of it rather than the size. Two plans with the same floor area can come back with rates that look nothing alike.

What a Builder Gets From Us on the Drywall

What matters on a build is the house getting finished when it's supposed to, and a short list at the end. Both are worth settling with you before anyone signs anything.

A subdivision house and a custom house are not the same drywall rate

On a subdivision house the drawings repeat, a crew learns the plan by the third one, and that repetition is part of why the rate is what it is. A one-off house up in the hills around Boerne is a different proposition, with taller ceilings, fewer square rooms and a finish a step above. Both are new construction drywall, and they won't come back to you at the same rate.

What we hand over when the board is finished

  • Board hung square and screwed off, with the joints taped and coated to the level you specified
  • Any level 5 rooms flat and even under a light held close against the wall
  • Off-cuts, buckets and banding out of the house rather than left in a corner
  • Floors swept and the house handed straight to your painters
  • A walk of the house with you before we pull off, so anything you want changed gets changed
  • One person to call about the drywall, from the bid to the last coat

Questions Builders Ask Us About New Construction Drywall

What do you charge per square foot for new construction drywall?

Hung and finished on open framing, $1.75 to $2.75 per square foot of board. That sits below what the same work costs in a house somebody lives in. The gap is everything an empty house doesn't have: no furniture to work around, no containment, nothing to blend into. We measure your board, not your floor area.

Can you hang the board only and let us bid the finish separately?

Yes, and we price it that way as a matter of course. Hang only is $0.85 to $1.90 per square foot, and taping and finishing bid separately is $0.35 to $1.10 per square foot. If you'd rather have the whole scope from one crew, the hang and finish rate above is the one that applies.

What is drywall on a new 2,500 square foot house?

A house that size runs $13,000 to $27,500, hung and finished. That band is wide because two houses with the same floor area can carry very different amounts of board. A two-story plan with tall ceilings and a run of vaulted rooms will carry around a third more surface than a single-story house on the same footprint, and your rate is on the surface.

What does a level 5 drywall finish add?

Level 5 adds $1 to $1.75 per square foot over a standard finish. It's a thin skim of compound across the whole surface rather than just the joints, so the wall reflects light evenly instead of showing where the taping stopped. It earns its money wherever your plan has a long wall with windows down one side, and it's what most custom houses around Boerne specify.

What do you need on site before the drywall starts?

Framing done and straight, rough-in complete and protected, insulation in, and the house dry inside. Blocking where anything gets fixed to a wall later, and somewhere to set board down that isn't blocking the electricians or the plumbers. Give us those and we can tell you what your drywall costs in time as well as in money.

Do you do commercial drywall as well?

We do residential and commercial. A shell going into a new building is the same trade with different board and a different finish schedule, priced off a different set of drawings. There's a page below for that side of your work.

The Rest of Our Drywall Work Around Boerne

Drywall Installation

New board in a house somebody already lives in: a wall opened up, a ceiling taken down, a room going back together.

New drywall in a room you already live in →

Drywall Texture

Orange peel, knockdown, skip trowel and the smooth finishes, sprayed fresh onto new board or matched to what's on the walls.

Why Texas walls are textured, and which finish is on yours →

Commercial Drywall

Offices, shops, restaurants and the hallways in between, with the schedule written around the people using the building.

Commercial drywall with people still in the building →

Drywall Repair

Cracks, holes, dents and the old patch somebody filled flat and never finished back. Matching the wall is most of the work.

What a drywall crack means, and how we close it →

Drywall Repair in Cordillera Ranch

One-off houses set a long way apart on rock, where the finish standard is high and we match it.

Drywall repair in Cordillera Ranch →

Drywall Repair in Fair Oaks Ranch

Big lots under heavy live oak, with the houses set well back off the road.

Drywall repair in Fair Oaks Ranch →
Rolled drawings and a steel tape measure lying on a folding table in an unfinished room, a pencil across the top sheet and bare framing behind, strong daylight from an opening at the far end

Get Your FREE Estimate

Send the plans and we'll take the board off them. Call 830-357-7353 if you'd rather talk it through first.

New construction drywall priced by the foot, off your own plans.

Call Us Now! 830-357-7353