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Drywall

Framing, hang, tape, and finish — photographed on our own jobs, not licensed from a stock library. Scope lines below describe only what the photos actually show.

GA-214 gypsum board finish levels

L0
No finish
Board hung, no tape — temporary walls
L1
Fire tape
Joints taped — plenums, concealed areas
L2
One coat
Tape + one coat — garages, backing for tile
L3
Two coats
Heavy textures — rarely specified
L4our spec
Three coats
Standard for flat paint — most residential and TI
L5our spec
Skim coat
Full skim — critical light, gloss, the walls in our photos

Hancock Park, Los Angeles · residential

Hancock Park residence

Whole-house gut renovation — framing, hang, and finish

A period Hancock Park house taken back to the studs and rebuilt around its original leaded-glass windows. Framed, insulated, hung, and finished throughout — vaulted upper floors, dormers, coffered ceilings, and a plaster arch tied into new work. Finished to a full skim coat.

Skim-coated walls drying in a whole-house renovation — Full skim coat

Plaster archway finished into new drywall — Arch tied into new work

Coffered ceiling finished smooth — Coffered ceiling

Ceiling rose worked into a finished ceiling — Ceiling rose

Vaulted upper-floor room finished smooth — Vaulted upper floor

Stairwell walls finished around original woodwork — Stairwell

Interior framing across the upper floor — Back to the studs

Garden room boarded and finished — Garden room

Tudor front elevation under scaffold during the renovation — The house itself

Pacific Palisades · residential

Palisades residence

New construction — barrel vaults, truss ceilings, long corridors

A large Palisades house with barrel-vaulted and exposed-truss ceilings, arched openings, and long gallery corridors. Carried from insulated framing through the hang, working around exposed structural timber that had to stay visible and clean.

Drywall hung on a barrel-vaulted ceiling — Barrel vault, hung

Installer under barrel-vault framing — Under the vault framing

Long gallery corridor hung around exposed timber — Gallery corridor

Arched corridor openings boarded — Arched openings

Board hung between exposed trusses — Between the trusses

Skylight well boarded clean — Skylight well

Installer working an arched window opening — At the arched window

Window bay framed and boarded — Window bay

Room boarded around french doors — At the french doors

Hollywood Hills · residential

Hillside residence

Remodel — insulation and hang to open hillside elevations

A hillside remodel opening onto a deck and a long view across the hills. Insulation and board through rooms with wide window walls, where a long unbroken plane meets full daylight and every deviation will show.

Boarded room with full-width window walls overlooking the hills — Board at the window wall

The room insulated, before board — Insulated

The same room, insulation to board — the deck rail and floorboards hold position; what changes is only our work.

Installer carrying board past a full-width view window — The board goes in

Room insulated ahead of the hang — Insulated

Deck elevation open to the view — The elevation

Crew at the view opening during insulation — At the opening

Silver Lake, Los Angeles · residential

Silver Lake residence

Hang — living space with full-width city opening

A hillside living space framing the downtown Los Angeles skyline through a full-width opening. Shown at the hang: board up across walls and ceiling, screws set, the opening cased out, the floor papered. The stage before any tape goes on.

Living space hung with board, city skyline through the opening — The hang, skyline beyond

Boarded ceiling and walls with downtown skyline visible — Ceiling set

Living and kitchen space boarded — Living + kitchen

Full-width opening cased out — Opening cased

Los Angeles · commercial

Multifamily mid-rise

Commercial multifamily — interior build-out

A mid-rise apartment building in Los Angeles, shown from the street during construction with the elevation scaffolded and the hoist still up. Interior photography for this job is still being collected.

Mid-rise apartment building under construction — The mid-rise

Second street view of the mid-rise under construction — Street elevation

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