Drywall Punch List and Correction Work for Builders and GCs

What's on the list

A punch list almost always includes a few lines that come down to drywall and paint: a ding or scuff from move-in traffic, a nail pop along a top plate, a cracked corner bead, a hole where a sign, a lift or a ladder caught the wall, or a texture patch that still needs matching to the surrounding finish. We take on the wall and ceiling items on that list, in one visit when the space allows it, so that part of the punch list closes out in a single trip instead of several callbacks spread across different trades.

When the damage traces back to another trade on the job — a dent from framing, a scuff from flooring, a crack from HVAC work overhead — we fix the wall itself and leave it at that; whatever happened before us isn't ours to referee.

The scope is the same whether the space is a lobby, a restaurant buildout, a ballroom, a tenant space, or a row of townhomes — the wall is the wall, no matter which GC called it in.

When the finish is the problem

Sometimes the item on the list isn't damage, it's a finish that didn't turn out: a texture that doesn't read right next to the rest of the room, a seam or a flaw that shows once the lighting goes in, or a patch from an earlier visit that's already cracking or lifting. Fixing a bad drywall patch covers what we do when an earlier repair needs to be redone, and texture matching covers how we get a texture to read consistently with the wall around it.

We look at it in person or from photos, say plainly what it will take to correct, and quote that work on its own, separate from anything already billed for the original job.

Finishing with paint

A patch and texture match on a punch-list wall is often enough on its own, left ready for whoever is already painting the space. When it isn't — a room off that painter's schedule, or a wall that needs its own pass — we repaint the repaired wall corner to corner, not just the patch, once the texture has had time to dry. A spot touch-up on fresh texture reads differently under the room's lighting than the wall around it, so painting the full wall avoids that line rather than hiding it at the edge.

New work: what's underneath the taping

On a wall that's newly taped and not yet textured, we look at what's underneath before we touch it. If the taping itself has a problem — a joint that isn't flat, a seam likely to show once texture and paint go on — that isn't something we absorb into a punch-list price. It goes back to whoever taped it, or we quote fixing it separately, in writing, before we start on anything else. That keeps every scope clean: the taping stays the taper's work, and what we add on top is the texture, the correction, or the finish.

Scope, paperwork and your deadline

Every job starts with a written scope — what we saw, what we're fixing, and the price — built from photos or from walking the space with you, before anything gets booked. That scope travels with the job, so nobody has to guess later about what was or wasn't included. A certificate of insurance and a W-9 are available whenever your office needs them on file.

Turnover and closing dates don't move for us or for anyone else on the job, so tell us the walkthrough or turnover date when you send photos, and we'll say plainly whether that date works before anything is booked. Buildings and homes raised before 1980 get the same screen as any property on this site: that era of construction often used asbestos materials, and that keeps a job off our list entirely rather than onto it.