Hanging, taping, finishing, and repair across Kenosha County and southeast Wisconsin — plaster in a Library Park bungalow or a full basement build in a Pleasant Prairie subdivision. Free, itemized estimates that follow a walkthrough.
Kenosha Elite Drywall is your local resource for drywall installation, repair, finishing, texture matching, and plaster work throughout Kenosha County and southeast Wisconsin. We work with experienced drywall professionals who price the wall in front of them rather than a category it loosely belongs to. From a plaster repair off Sheridan Road to first-year settling cracks in a new build out toward Somers, the walkthrough comes before the number.
Kenosha homeowners all need the same thing: a repair sized to what the wall actually is, not one approach applied to a 1920s plaster ceiling and a four-year-old subdivision alike.
Kenosha County offices, retailers, and clinics all need the same thing: rated assemblies built correctly and a finish schedule met on the date the general contractor already gave someone else.
Every contractor promises clean work and a fair price. Here is what actually differs about how this one runs.
Plaster and drywall sit on the same street here and cost different amounts to repair. A number given before anyone establishes which one you have is a guess, and guesses get revised upward once work starts.
This isn't a lead pool that sells your address to three companies. The same experienced drywall professional handles the job from the first walkthrough through the last coat of compound.
Sometimes the right advice is to wait — through a heating season on a new build, or for an asbestos result on an old ceiling. You will get told that rather than sold a repair that has to be done again.
Kenosha's median construction year is 1970 and about 21% of homes predate 1940. But downtown runs older — a 1966 median with roughly a quarter of homes built before 1940 — while Kenosha County as a whole is newer at a 1976 median and 18% pre-1940. That spread is the single most useful thing to know before pricing a job here. Plaster over lath near Library Park and board in a Pleasant Prairie subdivision are different materials that fail differently and get repaired differently.
Kenosha County has absorbed steady new-build activity, concentrated in Pleasant Prairie and Somers. New framing carries moisture from the yard, and it gives that moisture up over the first couple of heating seasons. As the lumber dries and shrinks, fasteners back out and taped seams open — usually at ceiling corners and above door openings. It is normal, it is not a defect, and it is worth waiting out one full winter before doing the repair properly once rather than badly twice.
Being this close to Lake Michigan moderates the temperature and widens the humidity range across the year. Gypsum and the framing behind it both respond to that cycle, and finished basements and additions show it first because they are the least conditioned space in most houses. Below grade, moisture-resistant board is the right default rather than the upgrade.
Send the details and a few photos through the form or call. A drywall professional covering Kenosha County follows up to arrange a time to look at it.
Someone establishes what the wall actually is — plaster or board, how the framing behaves, what texture is on it — before a price is attached to any of it.
Written out by material, labor, and finish level, so what you are paying for is legible instead of bundled into one figure.
Hanging, taping, mudding, sanding, and texture matching on the agreed schedule, with floors covered and a walkthrough before the job is closed out.
New drywall installation runs $1.50 to $3.00 per square foot, which Angi puts at $1,000 to $3,254 for a typical project. Repair is priced on a different basis: a small patch is $75 to $350, but the contractor visit itself starts around $300 no matter how small the hole is — which is why one nail pop and four nail pops often land at the same number. What moves a job inside those ranges is below.
| 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. Kenosha County rates land above or below these ranges depending on ceiling height, access, and how much board has to come out. The largest single swing here is whether a wall turns out to be plaster rather than drywall, which changes the method rather than just the quantity. You get a firm number after someone sees the job.
Coverage runs across Kenosha & Racine Counties and Northern Lake County, IL, and each city below gets its own page because the housing stock changes faster here than the drive time does. Kenosha’s older core sits at a 1966 median build year with about a quarter of homes predating 1940, while the county overall runs a decade newer — which decides whether a job is plaster work or board work before anyone picks up a knife. Permit and inspection requirements for rated assemblies are set village by village, not county-wide.
Outside these cities? Call (262) 401-2245 for a straight answer on whether your address is in the service area.
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