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Conroe Drywall

Where We Work, and What Moves the Walls There

Twelve communities, working outward from Conroe across four counties. They are grouped by the ground they sit on rather than alphabetically, because the ground is what changes our answer and the county line is not. Drywall cracks because the building moves, and what moves a building here is not the same in every direction: expansive prairie clay to the south swells and shrinks with the season, the river corridor to the east floods, and the lake to the west keeps the air wet all year. Conroe itself is not on this list — the home page is its page.

Lake Conroe shoreline

Humidity rather than movement is what damages board out here. A meaningful share of these properties are weekend or seasonal homes that spend long stretches closed up with the air conditioning off, and indoor humidity climbs and stays there. Paper-faced board absorbs it, tape lifts at ceiling joints, and bathrooms that never dry out grow mold on the facing rather than on the surface.

Piney Woods sand

Sandy soils over clay, and the newest housing stock in the service area. These move less than the prairie does, so the work here skews toward new construction, additions and detached shops rather than toward chasing seasonal cracks. The older pockets — the historic centres and the stock around Huntsville — are the exception and behave nothing like the subdivisions around them.

Expansive prairie clay

Gulf Coast prairie clay with severe seasonal shrink and swell. This is where a slab genuinely moves through the year, where diagonal cracks open at door and window corners every dry summer, and where a repair that only fills the surface is a repair you buy again. It is also the oldest continuously built stock on this list, so several texture eras sit side by side.

San Jacinto floodplain

The river corridor. These communities have taken water more than once — Harvey in 2017 across a wide area, and Elm Grove again in 2019 from a different cause — so a great deal of this housing stock has already been opened, dried and rebuilt at least once. The right question here is not how to patch it but what to rebuild it in, because paper-faced board that failed once will fail again.

Not on the list? Ask. The limit is the drive rather than a boundary on a map, and it is worth saying that a repair needing three coats means being at the property across more than one day. Past a certain distance that stops being schedulable honestly, and we would rather say so than book you and let the dates drift.

Find out what is actually moving behind the wall.

Bring us the room. We look at what caused the damage before we price fixing it, because a crack that has been filled twice is a movement problem and filling it a third time buys another year at most. You get the cause, the repair, and what it takes to stop it coming back — written down separately so you can see which part you are paying for.

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