Hanging, taping, finishing, and repair across Green Bay and Brown County — a ceiling stained after an ice dam, or a lower level boarded from open framing. Free, itemized estimates written on site rather than guessed at over the phone.
Green Bay Elite Drywall is your local resource for drywall installation, repair, finishing, texture matching, and plaster work throughout Green Bay and Brown County. We work with experienced drywall professionals who ask what put the damage there before pricing the patch, because in this climate a stain on a ceiling is usually a symptom of something above it. From a texture match on the west side off Military Avenue to a full basement finish out in Howard, the estimate follows the walkthrough.
Green Bay homeowners all need the same thing: a repair that addresses what actually caused the damage, not a patch that covers it up until the same thing happens again next winter.
Brown County offices, clinics, and retail spaces all need the same thing: rated assemblies built to spec and a finish schedule delivered on the date the general contractor has already committed to.
Plenty of companies will patch what you point at. Here is what is different about how this one approaches the job.
A stained ceiling in this climate usually has something above it still going on. You get told what is actually causing it, even when the honest answer is that another trade needs to go first.
Your details don't get sold to whoever bids fastest. The same experienced drywall professional runs the job from the first walkthrough through the last pass with the sander.
Refilling the same screw pop every March isn't a repair, it's a routine. Fasteners get set back into solid framing and the surface refinished so the fix holds through the next heating season.
Green Bay averages 55.6 inches of snow a year against a national average of 28, and long stretches of it sit on roofs rather than melting off. When heat escaping into an attic melts the underside of that pack and it refreezes at the cold eave, water backs up under the shingles and comes in at the top of an exterior wall. The result reads as a ceiling problem. Replacing the board without dealing with the attic just books the same repair for next February.
Winter temperatures here run below −20°F, and months of continuous heating drop indoor humidity hard. Framing lumber gives up moisture and shrinks against the board fastened to it, which is what pushes screw and nail heads out into visible dimples and opens hairline cracks along taped seams — usually at ceiling corners and above doorways, and usually in the same places each year. Refastening properly and refinishing beats refilling the same spot every spring.
Green Bay's median construction year is 1971, with about 13.7% of homes built before 1940 and another 6.4% in the 1940s. Compared with older Wisconsin cities, plaster is the exception here — concentrated in the Astor Historic District and the older blocks near downtown. Everywhere else the everyday job is matching an existing sprayed texture on drywall, which is a matter of sampling and testing rather than guessing at the gun.
Send details and a few photos through the form or call. A drywall professional covering Brown County follows up to schedule a look.
The damage and its cause both get looked at — framing, fasteners, existing texture, and on a stained ceiling, what is going on above it before anything is replaced.
Written out by material, labor, and finish level, including a straight note where another trade needs to handle the cause before drywall work is worth doing.
Hanging, taping, mudding, sanding, and texture matching on the agreed schedule, with floors covered and a walkthrough before it's called finished.
New drywall runs $1.50 to $3.00 per square foot of board, and most single-room and addition jobs land between $1,000 and $3,254. Repairs price on a different basis: $75 to $350 for a small patch, $297 to $472 for a ceiling hole before anyone has established what put water up there. Those are 2026 national figures from Angi and HomeGuide. They are worth using to set a budget and worth nothing as a quote — the number that counts comes out of the walkthrough.
| Service | Cost Per Sq. Ft. | Typical Job |
|---|---|---|
| New Drywall Installation | $1.50 – $3.00 per sq. ft. | $1,000 – $3,254 per project |
| Small Patch or Hole | $75 – $350 per patch | $300 – $500 for a contractor visit |
| Larger Wall Repair | $500 – $800+ per patch | Scales with how much board comes out |
| Ceiling Repair | $297 – $472 per hole | $220 – $1,300 for the full ceiling |
| Water-Damaged Drywall | $500 – $2,500+ | Depends how far the moisture travelled |
| Texture Matching | $150 – $450 per patch | Runs 30 – 40% above a smooth finish |
Based on 2026 national cost-guide data from Angi, HomeGuide, and Homewyse. Green Bay and Brown County rates land above or below these ranges depending on ceiling height, access, and texture type. Ice-dam ceiling damage is the row that most often exceeds the guide, because wet insulation above the board has to come out and dry before anything closes back up. You get a firm number after someone sees the job.
Coverage runs across Green Bay & Northeast Wisconsin, out to Seymour in the west and Luxemburg in the east. Each city below gets its own page because what’s behind the board changes street by street. De Pere has houses standing since 1867 and a ranch-home tract built between 1953 and 1957, and those are two different jobs. Bellevue, Suamico, and Hobart all incorporated within the last twenty-five years and are board throughout. Pulaski grew outward from a monastery founded in 1887 and Denmark from a rail depot built in 1906. Permits are issued municipality by municipality, and three different counties are involved once you reach the edges.
Outside these cities? Call (414) 413-8843 for a straight answer on whether your address is in the service area.
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