Drywall service

Commercial Drywall Installation for Niagara Businesses and Builders

St Catharines Elite Drywall handles commercial drywall installation for offices, retail units, restaurants, medical and dental suites, warehouse offices and multi-unit residential throughout the Niagara Region. We work for general contractors, property managers and business owners from St. Catharines and Niagara Falls out to the Welland and Port Colborne industrial corridor and the Lincoln wineries. Board installation, metal stud framing, taping and finishing, ceiling systems and fire-rated assemblies, built from your drawings and delivered on the date we committed to.

Fire-resistance rated construction is where we separate from most drywall contractors in this region. Type X board, correctly layered demising and party wall assemblies, staggered joints, proper fastener patterns and firestopping at every penetration, built to match the tested design your engineer specified and documented for inspection. We also install T-bar and suspended ceiling grid where mechanical access above the ceiling has to be maintained.

$2M liability insurance, full WSIB coverage with clearance certificates supplied for your records, WHMIS and Working at Heights certification. More than twenty years and over 1,500 completed jobs.

If you are a general contractor, the problem you are actually solving is not finish quality. It is whether the drywall sub shows up on the date they committed to, does the units consistently, and does not become your liability.

We have been that sub on Niagara projects for over twenty years. Insured, WSIB covered, and on site when we said we would be.

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20+: years in the trade
1,500+: jobs completed
$2M: liability insurance
WSIB: fully covered

Drywall for commercial and multi-unit projects

We take on office fit-outs, retail units, restaurants and bars, medical and dental offices, warehouse and industrial office space, multi-unit residential, and institutional work.

Scope on these jobs comes from drawings, not from a conversation at a kitchen table. That changes how we quote, how we schedule and how we coordinate, and the sections below describe how we actually run it.

Metal stud framing across an open commercial office floor before boarding begins

Fire-rated and code-compliant assemblies

This is where most drywall contractors in the Niagara region quietly stop, and where a lot of commercial projects run into trouble at inspection.

Type X board and rated wall systems

Type X is 5/8" gypsum board with glass fibre reinforcement that holds together longer under fire. A single layer buys roughly 45 to 60 minutes. One-hour and two-hour rated assemblies generally need multiple layers per side, built to match the tested design your drawings specify.
Demising and party walls between units

Separations between dwelling units and between tenancies carry a required fire-resistance rating under the Ontario Building Code. The layer count, the board type, the fastener pattern and the joint stagger all form part of the tested assembly. Change any one of them and the rating no longer applies, whatever the board says on the back.
Firestopping at penetrations

Every pipe, conduit and duct that passes through a rated wall is a hole in the rating until it is sealed with the right listed product. Unsealed penetrations are one of the most common reasons a rated assembly fails inspection, and they are easy to avoid if someone is watching for them.

We build to the assembly on your drawings and we keep the documentation your inspector will want to see.

Working as a subcontractor on your site

Coordination is the part that decides whether a GC calls you back.

We sequence around the trades ahead of and behind us, hold the dates we commit to, and tell you early when something is at risk rather than on the morning it becomes your problem. Site gets left clean at the end of each day, because the next trade in should not have to shovel our offcuts.

On repeated units we care about consistency above all. Twenty apartments finished to twenty slightly different standards creates a deficiency list that costs everyone.

Our crews carry WHMIS and Working at Heights certification. On most Ontario commercial sites those are access requirements rather than selling points, and we keep them current.

Ceiling systems for commercial spaces

Drywall ceilings and bulkheads

Flat ceilings, dropped bulkheads, soffits and mechanical enclosures, finished to the same standard as the walls.
T-bar and suspended ceilings

Where mechanical, electrical or plumbing above the ceiling needs to stay accessible, a suspended grid is the right answer rather than a compromise. We install grid and tile in standard configurations, and we will tell you honestly when a space is better served by drywall.

Insurance, WSIB and site compliance

Commercial clients check this before anything else, so here it is plainly.

The reason a GC cares is straightforward. An uninsured subcontractor does not carry their own risk, they transfer it to you. A sub without WSIB clearance can stop a project on an Ontario site.

$2M general liability insurance. Certificate available on request.
Full WSIB coverage. Clearance certificates supplied for your records, refreshed as needed.
WHMIS certified.
Working at Heights certified.

Send us your drawings for a quote

How we quote and schedule commercial work

Drawings review

We take off from your set and flag anything ambiguous before it becomes a change order.
Site walk

Conditions, access, storage, hoisting and existing constraints.
Written scope

What is included, what is excluded, and which assemblies apply where. Exclusions in writing prevent arguments later.
Phasing

We plan around the trades before and after us and agree the sequence with you rather than assuming it.
Milestones

Agreed dates for board complete, taping complete and final handover.

Commercial projects across the Niagara Region

The work looks different depending on where in the region it sits.

Niagara Falls brings hotel and hospitality fit-outs, restaurant builds and corridor refurbishment, usually scheduled around occupancy and the tourist season. St. Catharines brings downtown retail, professional offices and institutional work. The Welland and Port Colborne corridor brings industrial and warehouse office space. Out in Lincoln, winery tasting rooms, event spaces and agri-tourism buildings have become a steady source of commercial interior work.

Tall commercial partition walls being boarded from staging on a Niagara fit-out

Request a quote for your commercial project

Send us your drawings and your target dates. We will review the set, walk the site, and come back with a written scope and a schedule we can actually hold.

Send drawings and project details.

Commercial Drywall Installation on a Niagara jobsite

A few stages from recent work. Every job ends with a raking-light inspection before we call it finished.

Frequently asked questions

Can you work evenings or weekends to avoid disrupting our business?

Yes. Occupied retail, restaurant and office spaces are often best done outside operating hours, and we schedule around that regularly. It affects the quote, and we will show you the difference so you can decide.

Do you carry WSIB clearance certificates for our records?

Yes, and we will supply a current one before we mobilise and refresh it whenever your records need it.

Can you handle multiple units on the same schedule?

Yes. Consistency across repeated units is something we plan for deliberately rather than hope for, since that is where multi-unit projects usually generate deficiencies.

Do you supply the fire-rated documentation our inspector needs?

We build to the tested assembly specified on your drawings and keep records of the board type, layer configuration and fastening used. We will provide what we hold for your inspection package.

What is your typical lead time for a commercial quote?

Send us a drawing set and we will usually turn a quote around within a few business days, depending on scope and how much clarification the set needs.

Do you take on tenant improvement work in occupied buildings?

Regularly. Containment, dust control, access routes and noise windows all get agreed with building management before we start.

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