We help Ottawa homeowners find local drywall contractors, understand what the work costs according to published pricing, and know what Ontario's Building Code, the City and Health Canada say before anyone cuts, hangs or sands.
A hole, a crack, a stained ceiling or a room to board raises practical questions. Ontario's Building Code sets fastener spacing for drywall, a minimum thickness for board that holds up insulation, and a temperature rule for taping in cold weather. It treats the wall between an attached garage and the house as a gas barrier, and it names 5/8-inch (15.9 mm) Type X drywall for one way of separating a secondary suite. These are the questions this site answers, with each rule taken from the Code, the City, Health Canada or the law itself.
Some of the answers surprise people. The City's 2026 flood-repair FAQ says taking drywall off to let insulation dry needs no permit, while moving a wall is permit work. A single home's attached garage needs a sealed gas barrier and a self-closing door, not a fire-rated wall. Both drywall trades are voluntary in Ontario, so no licence is required, but fire separations and permit work are still inspected. In a house built before 1990, Health Canada advises a professional asbestos test before renovating.
Ottawa Drywallers is a matching service, not a drywall company. We do not patch, hang, tape or test anything and we do not employ contractors. You tell us what needs fixing or boarding, and we send your request to local drywall contractors listed in the Ottawa Construction Network directory. They reply to you by email. We do not screen or verify them, and we say so, which is why every page tells you what to check yourself.
Choose the job type and add what you have in mind: how many holes or cracks, which rooms or ceilings, roughly how big, the age of the house, or a quote you want to compare. No phone number needed.
We send your request to local drywall contractors in the Ottawa Construction Network directory. They contact you by email to arrange a look and a written quote.
Compare quotes line by line: what is removed and replaced, the board named, the finish level, how many coats, whether primer and paint are included, who arranges an asbestos test in an older house, who asks the City about a permit, and the warranty terms in writing.
This site covers one trade. Your request goes to contractors who list drywall work: repairs, water-damaged board, new drywall, taping and finishing, textured ceilings, ceiling repairs, garage-to-house walls and 5/8-inch Type X separations. Insulation, painting, soundproofing and asbestos removal have their own sites.
A service page gives a range only where at least two independent published contractor price pages agree, labelled as Toronto and Ontario prices and dated. They are not Ottawa prices. Where too few are published, such as water-damaged drywall or ceiling repairs, we say so instead of inventing one.
We explain the protections that matter when you hire here: a written direct agreement over $50, the 10-day cancellation right on a direct agreement, the 10% limit over an estimate, the Construction Act holdback, and what to ask about WSIB coverage.
Our free knowledge base answers Ottawa drywall questions: what the Building Code says about board and fasteners, when drywall is part of permit work, when to test first in an older home, what the work costs according to published pricing, and how to compare quotes.
The jobs we match, with the published range where one exists:
Patching holes, dents and nail pops in walls and ceilings so the repair is ready for paint.
About $150–$600 per small patch (published Toronto and Ontario contractor prices, read October 1, 2026; not Ottawa prices and not a quote). Larger holes and texture matching cost more.
Repairing cracked joints and corners: opening the crack, re-taping where the tape has let go, then coating and priming.
About $150–$900 per crack or area (published Toronto and Ontario contractor prices, read October 1, 2026; not Ottawa prices and not a quote).
Removing wet board after a leak or flood so the wall can dry, then hanging, taping and finishing new board.
No published range: the sources we found price this work in different units (per sheet, per job), so none is shown.
Hanging new board on walls and ceilings, then taping, finishing and sanding it to an agreed finish level.
About $1.50–$4.50 per sq ft of board, hung, taped and finished (published Toronto and Ontario contractor prices, read October 1, 2026; not Ottawa prices and not a quote).
Taping and finishing joints to a named finish level, from a fire-taped garage wall to a skim-coated smooth wall.
No range: taping-only prices come from one copied source. A Level 5 skim costs more than a standard finish.
Testing first, then scraping, skim-coating and priming a popcorn or textured ceiling, or covering it with new board.
About $2–$10 per sq ft, scrape only up to scrape, skim and paint, for a ceiling that has tested clear (published Toronto and Ontario contractor prices, read October 1, 2026; not Ottawa prices and not a quote).
Repairing sagging, cracked or stained ceiling board, from re-fastening to replacing sections.
No range: we found only one published source for ceiling repairs.
Board and sealing on the wall and ceiling between an attached garage and the house, where the Code wants a continuous gas-tight barrier.
No range: we found no two independent published prices for garage-wall work.
The 5/8-inch (15.9 mm) Type X drywall the Building Code names for separating a secondary suite from the main home, under a City permit.
No range: we found no two independent published prices for suite separations.
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