Pauda Drywall — Metal Stud Framing & Drywall, San Diego County
Metal Stud Framing & Drywall, Done Right
Light gauge steel framing, drywall, texture and paint — one crew from track layout through finish coat. Commercial tenant improvement, ADUs, remodels and repairs across San Diego County. Send plans or photos from your phone and get a written estimate. Se habla español.
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A San Diego Framing & Drywall Crew That Shows Up and Cleans Up
About Pauda Drywall
Pauda Drywall is a San Diego drywall and paint contractor working out of San Ysidro and covering the whole county. We hang and finish new construction, repair the damage nobody else wants to touch, match texture so the patch disappears, and hand the room back to you swept and masked-off clean. Most of our work comes from general contractors, property managers and homeowners who called us back — because the finish holds up and the crew leaves the site the way they found it.
One crew for the whole job — framing, board, tape, texture and paint. No waiting on four different subs to show up.
Residential Remodels
Commercial Build-Outs
Repairs & Texture Matching
Level 5 Finish Work
Know what you are buying
The Five Finish Levels
Two bids can differ by thousands and both be honest — they are quoting different finish levels. Ours says which level on the estimate, every time.
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Level 1
Tape set in compound. Attics, plenums and areas nobody sees.
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Level 2
One coat over tape and screws. Garages and behind tile.
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Level 3
Two coats. The base for a heavy sprayed or troweled texture.
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Level 4
Three coats, sanded. Standard for flat paint and light texture.
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Level 5
Full skim coat over the entire surface. For gloss paint and raking light.
Specifications
Why Pauda Drywall?
Drywall Is All We Do
County-Wide Coverage
Bilingual English/Spanish
We Mask Off and Clean Up
Written Estimates, No Surprises
Same-Day Estimates
Texture Matched or Redone
One Crew, Board Through Paint
From first photo to final walkthrough
How the Job Goes
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Send photos
From your phone, right here on the site. Stand back far enough to show the whole wall or ceiling.
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Written estimate
Usually within 48 hours, itemized. If we need to see it in person first, we will tell you.
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We schedule it
You get a date and a window, and a text the day before to confirm.
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Masked, worked, cleaned
Plastic and zip doors up before anything gets cut. We clean at the end of every day, not the end of the job.
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Walkthrough
We walk it with you under a work light before we call it done. Anything you flag, we fix.
Full service catalog
Our Services
Metal Stud Framing
Track and stud layout for demising walls, soffits, chases, furring and bulkheads. Straight, plumb, on layout and braced right — because no amount of good finishing saves a wall that was framed crooked. Standard for tenant improvement work and what we prefer in commercial spaces.
Framing detailsDrywall Hang & Finish
New construction, additions and remodels — we hang the board, tape and mud the joints, and finish to the level your job calls for, up to a Level 5 skim for smooth walls and raking light. Screw pattern to code, corner bead straight, joints flat. Ready for primer when we leave.
Patch & Repair
Doorknob holes, cracked corners, sagging ceilings, holes another trade left behind, nail pops all down a hallway. We cut it out square, back it properly, and blend the texture so you cannot find the repair afterward. Small jobs welcome — a lot of contractors will not take them. We do.
Texture Matching
Orange peel, knockdown, skip trowel, Santa Fe, smooth — matching an existing wall is the part most crews get wrong. We test on a scrap board first, dial in the mud consistency and the gun pressure, then shoot it. If it does not match, we sand it back and do it again.
Water & Mold Damage
Roof leaks, burst supply lines, slab leaks, overflowed tubs. We cut out everything that got wet, let it dry properly, and rebuild with moisture-resistant board where it belongs. We photograph the damage before and after, which is what your insurance adjuster is going to ask for.
Popcorn Ceiling Removal
Scrape off the cottage-cheese ceiling and replace it with smooth or a light knockdown. We mask the whole room floor to ceiling, so the dust stays in the room we are working in. Homes built before 1980 should be tested for asbestos first — we will tell you straight and we will not scrape it until you have that result.
Acoustic & Drop Ceilings
T-bar grid and lay-in acoustic tile for offices, clinics, retail and classrooms. We lay out the grid so the border tiles come out even instead of leaving a two-inch sliver against one wall, and we coordinate the openings with the other trades before the tile goes in.
Interior Painting
Prime and paint the walls we just finished — one crew, one point of contact, no finger-pointing over whose defect it is. Full masking, cut lines straight, two coats on the finish. We can also paint rooms we did not board, if the prep is sound.
No walkthrough required
Estimate From Your Phone
Photograph the damage, add a note or record a voice message, and send it. Most jobs can be priced from good photos — and when they cannot, we will say so instead of guessing.
Coverage zone · San Diego County
Service Areas
City of San Diego
North Park · Clairemont · Point Loma · La Jolla · Mission Valley · Kearny Mesa
Area details
North County
Carlsbad · Encinitas · Oceanside · Vista · San Marcos · Escondido · Poway
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East County
El Cajon · La Mesa · Santee · Lakeside · Spring Valley · Alpine
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South Bay
Chula Vista · National City · San Ysidro · Eastlake · Otay Ranch · Bonita
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Direct line · Mon–Fri 7:00–18:00 · Sat 8:00–14:00
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Pauda Drywall
Shop
525 W San Ysidro BlvdSan Diego, CA 92173
- SD · City of San Diego
- NC · North County
- EC · East County
- SB · South Bay
Hours
Mon-Fri: 7am - 6pm | Sat: 8am - 2pm