Painting, Drywall & Remodeling in Downers Grove, IL

Downers Grove is one of the larger villages in DuPage County and one of the most varied, which makes it a steady source of the kind of work we are set up for. Housing runs from nineteenth-century homes near the older part of town through every post-war decade and into new infill construction, often on the same street. There is no single typical Downers Grove job.

The repairs we are called for most here come from age rather than accident: settlement cracks that reopen above doorways, failed and popped tape along ceiling seams, nail and screw pops across a whole upstairs, and water-stained ceilings under second-floor bathrooms and after an ice dam. A good share of the older houses are plaster over lath, which fails differently from drywall and needs a different repair — worth mentioning when you call so we bring the right materials the first time.

Exteriors here are a prep story too. Wood siding and painted trim on the older stock, decades of coats on top of each other, and south and west elevations that take the brunt of the weather. We scrape back to an edge that holds, prime the bare wood, caulk the joints and then paint — in that order, with the prep written into the quote. And because our crew handles drywall and paint both, a repaint that uncovers a cracked ceiling does not turn into a second contractor and a three-week wait.