Proctor grew up around the ore yards, and its housing still carries that era's virtues — solid, modest, well-built homes from the early 1900s through mid-century, most within a whistle's distance of the tracks. Houses like these accumulate honest wear across a hundred northland winters, and Duluth Drywall is built for exactly that work: plaster-aware repairs, batched fix lists, and basements finished right.
Drywall Services in Proctor
Drywall Repair
A century of dings, winter cracks, and old patches — in plaster and drywall alike — repaired to disappear.
Finishing & Texturing
Skim coats that take many-times-painted railroad-era walls back to smooth.
Drywall Installation
Remodels, attic conversions, and garage interiors hung and finished paint-ready.
Water Damage Repair
Ice-dam ceilings and burst-pipe walls restored properly — dry verified first, rebuilt second.
Framing
Basement layouts and new walls framed straight, with old structure corrected along the way.
Popcorn Ceiling Removal
Mid-century texture scraped, skimmed, and returned to smooth.
Old Houses, Long Lists, One Visit
Our favorite Proctor format is the batched visit: walk the house, list everything — the stairwell crack that's been there since the Clinton administration, the popped nails upstairs, the ceiling ring from the ice dam two winters back — and clear it all in a day or two. The visit cost spreads across every fix, the per-repair price drops fast, and the house feels ten years younger. Plaster gets repaired as plaster, drywall as drywall, and everything blends.
Basements & Garages That Work
Proctor properties work for a living — and we finish the spaces that do the working. Basement family rooms with proper standoff from old foundations, garage and shop interiors with fire-rated board where they meet the house, and attic half-stories turned into real bedrooms with insulation done right for a town that hears every winter Duluth does.
Nearby Areas We Serve
We also cover Hermantown, West Duluth, Esko and the whole western Twin Ports.
Get a Free Estimate in Proctor
Call (218) 752-2200 or list your fixes in the form — we'll price the batch, in writing, free.