Is Carlton too far for a small repair?

No — we route Carlton County work together, so single-repair visits are routine and there's no travel charge. Batching a few fixes makes the trip even more worthwhile.

Our foursquare's plaster is cracking upstairs. Worth saving?

Usually yes — plaster that's solidly attached repairs and skims beautifully, and it's a better wall than its replacement would be. We'll check how well it's keyed to the lath and give you the honest answer wall by wall.

The ceiling stains every hard winter. What's the real fix?

Attic insulation and air sealing — that's what stops the ice dam making the stain. We restore the ceiling properly and tell you plainly when the attic is the project, because repainting the same ring every spring isn't a plan.

Do you do commercial work in town?

Yes — storefront refreshes, office partitions, and repairs, scheduled around your open hours.

Drywall Contractor Carlton, MN | Repair & Restoration

Carlton is a proper county seat in miniature — the courthouse, a tight grid of early-1900s homes, and Jay Cooke's gorge just down the road. Small towns like this reward contractors who show up when promised and charge what they quoted, and that's the reputation Duluth Drywall runs on. We serve Carlton with plaster-aware repair for the old stock and full drywall service for everything since.

Drywall Services in Carlton

Drywall Repair

Plaster cracks, winter movement, and decades of patches repaired and blended into one clean surface.

Water Damage Repair

Ice dams, old roofs, and spring melt — restoration done in the right order, moisture verified first.

Finishing & Texturing

Skim coats that take century walls back to smooth without a demolition budget.

Drywall Installation

Remodels, attic conversions, and garage interiors hung and finished paint-ready.

Framing

New walls and furring framed straight, with old structure corrected along the way.

Popcorn Ceiling Removal

Mid-century texture scraped, skimmed, and returned to smooth.

County-Seat Housing, Handled Honestly

Carlton's homes have carried a century of northland weather, and their walls hold the record: plaster cracks that walk the same paths every winter, ceiling rings from roofs two generations back, and patches layered on patches. We sort it with a meter and a straight answer — what's cosmetic, what's moisture, what's worth saving (usually most of it) — then fix it to disappear. Batched visits keep the economics small-town friendly.

Between the River and the Winter

With the St. Louis River gorge next door and real snow every year, Carlton sees the full moisture catalog — ice dams, frozen pipes, damp old foundations. Every water repair follows the same discipline: source fixed first, cavity verified dry, then rebuilt and blended. No wall closes on a guess.

Nearby Areas We Serve

We also cover Cloquet, Esko, West Duluth and the rest of Carlton County.

Get a Free Estimate in Carlton

Call (218) 752-2200 or describe the project in the form — honest assessment, firm written price, no travel charge.

Request Your Free Estimate

Call us or send a message and we'll get right back to you. We answer questions, give honest advice, and schedule estimates fast.

(218) 752-2200

Service Area: Duluth & the entire Twin Ports area

Hours: Monday – Saturday, 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Estimates: Always free, no obligation

Drywall Contractor in Carlton, MN