Anyone out there build walls/hang drywall?

[Mugzy Profile]

We will be getting a house next month if everything goes as planned. It has a living/dining area that we want to turn part of it into an office.

We need two walls built, 10' tall, one will be 12', the other 9' with a door in one.

Any idea how much a professional would charge?

Just asking because I know I would have a good chance of getting an honest ROUGH estimate from here


Mugzy

Here is the house:
http://www.photographic.org/photos/?a=45

[AnimalCracka]

I have a friend that builds houses, Ill ask him tommorow about an estimate price and get back to you.

BTW- Thats a nice house.

[Dos Equis Profile]

Nice house

Just don't let these guys do the work!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&e=4&u=/ap/wrong_house

[SilverSurfer Profile Website]

lol hehe

[hightimber Profile ICQ]

Originally posted by Mugzy
We will be getting a house next month if everything goes as planned. It has a living/dining area that we want to turn part of it into an office.

We need two walls built, 10' tall, one will be 12', the other 9' with a door in one.

Any idea how much a professional would charge?

Just asking because I know I would have a good chance of getting an honest ROUGH estimate from here


Mugzy

If you're even slightly handy with tools, I'd consider doing this yourself and use steel studs instead of lumber. Without ANY prior framing experience, my wife and I completely framed our basement using steel studs. They're much cheaper than lumber and ALWAYS straight. The walls that I built are more plumb than the ones built by the 'professionals' who constructed my house.

Cutting the steel studs is very simple. Use Tinsnips and cut both sides of the steel channel. Then using a back-and-forth, swinging motion, snap off the steel stud.

They screw together so if you make a mistake, undoing you work is simple. Try that with lumber.

Steel-framed walls are more fire resistant and just as sturdy as lumber-framed walls.

The trickier part will be framing your doorway and getting a door hung. That takes a little patience and expertise but we even managed to do that 5 times in our basement (bi-fold and regular swinging doors). Be sure to make your doorway plenty big to allow yourself room to shim the doorframe to make sure it's square.

We did hire-out the taping and texturing of the dryawall. THAT kind of patience, I don't have.

Good luck with your project.

[AnimalCracka]

I talked to my buddy and he said he would charge $200-$250 plus cost of materials. He also said that it would be more economical to do it yourself as Hightimber has said. He said its really simple to do.