10-Day Downtown Remodel in St. Cloud

About the Project

Our general contractor brought us in on a complete remodel of a downtown building on West St. Germain in March 2026. The schedule was tight: 10 days to hang, finish, and turn the space over.

Three details made this project unusual and they're worth calling out because most drywall jobs don't include any of them, let alone all three. First, the control joint plan was unusually detailed for a project this size; the GC wanted control joints worked through every key wall and ceiling transition to manage long-term movement. Second, the design called for sheetrock to be returned cleanly into a structural metal I-beam — a detail that asks the crew to wrap and finish drywall tight to steel, which most drywall subs avoid if they can. And third, the existing ceiling was wavy. Rather than tear it out, we shimmed the ceiling straight as we hung — a step that adds real time to the schedule but is the only honest way to get a flat finished plane out of an out-of-level substrate. None of those three are routine. We took the schedule on knowing they'd slow us down, and we still finished on time.

What was included in the project?

Our scope on this remodel covered fire taping at rated assemblies, drywall hang throughout the 4,000 square feet, taping and finishing, a Level 5 skim coat on the wall surfaces, control joint installation per the GC's detailed plan, sanding for paint prep, the sheetrock return into the structural metal I-beam, and shim work to bring the wavy existing ceiling back to a flat plane during the hang.