JR Brewer Drywall

JR Brewer Drywall The #1 boutique residential drywaller in the Sacramento area.

05/25/2026

We’re always talking about blisters — but what actually are they?
A blister is air trapped behind something. Air behind the paper face of the sheetrock, air behind the tape. And it usually comes down to one of two things:
No prefill before taping, so there’s no mud underneath to bond to.
Or over-wiping the tape, pushing too hard and squeezing all the mud out from underneath, leaving nothing but air behind the tape.

Either way, the result is the same. Loose tape, loose sheetrock, and a blister you’ll have to come back and fix.
The details matter every single time.

05/20/2026

A few years back we hung a house with cinder block exterior walls, we glued and screwed the sheetrock right to it. Everything looked fine.

Five years later? Mold was weeping through the drywall at the baseboard. Tore it back and the porous cinder block had been pulling moisture through the whole time. So we had to do a full remediation.

Ever since then we red guard every concrete stem wall before hanging the sheetrock, then greenboard on top for extra protection against mold and mildew.

The whole thing takes an extra hour and about $100, so I think it’s probably worth it.

05/15/2026

Back when we still hired out for piece work, I’d walk a job like this with guys and they’d go home. It was too much, it blew their brain.

That’s exactly why we stopped doing piece work and built our own in-house crew from the ground up — trained hourly, trained right, and built specifically for the kind of jobs we take on. That’s why we have a in house crew.

Half the boxes on the wall have a big blowout around them like this…,
05/14/2026

Half the boxes on the wall have a big blowout around them like this…,

Contractors spilling the beans, good and bad. Heavy hitter guests just killing the it in life. Listen, learn and share!
05/13/2026

Contractors spilling the beans, good and bad. Heavy hitter guests just killing the it in life. Listen, learn and share!

05/12/2026

Quality control doesn’t look the same on every project — and that’s intentional.

On a big job, we rotate fresh guys in at the end so nothing gets missed after weeks on the same site.

On a small job? One guy, start to finish. Same cost as splitting it — but he knows every inch of that job. He dialed it in from day one and he’s not leaving until it’s perfect.

05/06/2026

Blisters can be a pain, and sometimes you have to go back and refill, re-tape and re-texture. And maybe just glossing over it would be easier, but to actually get the end result you want, you have to do the work now.

05/04/2026

When you’re on the same job for a long time, sometimes it’s hard to see everything and catch ever last detail. That’s why we like to bring in a new set of guys — right at the end— to really make sure everything is perfect.

05/02/2026

Old houses and new houses have very different problems. One of the (many) ways to lose your butt in this business is to try to fix old house problems with new house solutions.

I have actually had guys drop their tools and walk on the first day of one of these really big, really old houses because the ways that they had worked in new construction simply does not translate over to these hundred-year-old houses.

And thankfully I now have a crew that understands these old beasts and knows what it takes to do them right.

If you’re working on a remodel of a really old home — make sure your subs have the experience required to execute.

04/28/2026

When you’re doing old plaster walls, you got to do something. Maybe not everybody does it, but using this blue mesh get’s the job done.

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