Drywall Contractor in Brick, NJ
Toms River Drywall handles drywall repair and installation in Brick, NJ, where most homes are detached houses built between the 1950s and the 1980s.
Houses from the 1950s to the 1980s
Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020 to 2024 estimates put the median Brick home in 1976, with 59% of housing built before 1980 and 24% in the 1970s alone. Most homes are single-family detached and lived in by their owners. The typical drywall job here is in a house close to fifty years old, often with original board on many walls and ceilings and decades of patching and repainting on top.
Nail pops and sagging ceilings
Board from that era was often fastened mostly with nails, which back out as framing dries and moves. Ceilings were often 1/2-inch board on framing spaced 24 inches apart, which can bow over time.
Nail pops and ridged seams
A screw goes in beside each pop, the old nail is set or pulled, and the spot is coated and sanded flat.
Bowed ceilings
Sagging sections are replaced with sag-resistant ceiling board, screwed on the right pattern, so the room is flat again.
Making a patch vanish on an older wall
In an older Brick house a repair is judged by how well it blends. Walls painted many times build up a slight orange-peel surface, ceilings may carry knockdown or swirl, and outside corners round over under the layers. A good patch is feathered well past its edges, and any texture is tried on scrap board before it goes overhead. Where one wall has been patched again and again, a skim coat often beats another round of spot repairs.
Waterfront streets and flood repairs
Brick has a lot of shoreline on the bay, the river, and the barrier island, and waterfront homes there were hit hard by Sandy in 2012. If you own a house that took water, or bought one that did, walls rebuilt in a hurry afterward are worth a second look before you put money into new finishes. See water damage drywall repair for the full process.
Signs of a rushed rebuild
Board touching the slab, a musty smell from one wall, tape bubbling along the bottom few feet, or baseboard that never sat flat.
How a flood cut goes back
The lower wall is cut at one level line, wet insulation comes out, framing dries until the meter agrees, and moisture-resistant board goes back with a small gap above the floor.
Popcorn ceilings and 1970s paint
With so much Brick housing from the 1970s, textured ceilings and old paint layers are common. The build year alone does not clear a ceiling, so an accredited asbestos professional should take samples before any scraping. On homes built before 1978, ask for the firm's EPA RRP certification before anyone sands painted walls. Our popcorn ceiling removal page covers the order of work.
Toms River Drywall handles drywall repair in Brick, plus nearby Lakewood and Point Pleasant.
- Ceiling replacement where old 1/2-inch board has sagged
- Flood-cut rebuilds on lower walls near the water
- Nail pop and seam repair in 1970s houses
- Popcorn ceiling removal after asbestos sampling
- Water-stained ceilings repaired once the leak is fixed
Towns we work in
Serving Toms River and towns roughly 25 miles out.