Drywall & finishing
Boarding by the sheet, taping and finishing by the square foot, and L3, L4 or L5 written on the quote, carried through the stage log and checked under a raking light before anyone signs — Daybook speaks drywall.
Drywall is a project trade, and the app was built for project work: a lead, a site visit to count the sheets, a quote, a win, a boarding-to-sanding schedule, an invoice. Not a template with a different noun in the headline: drywall has its own job types, its own checklists, its own quoting words, its own price list and its own website, and every screen that used to say brick or stone says sheet, coat or level to a drywaller.
The level of finish is the thread that earns its keep. The site measure asks which level each room is quoted at — Level 3 for the garage, Level 4 for flat and eggshell, Level 5 where the light rakes; the price list carries a line for each of them; the quote names the level so the painter reads what the client paid for; and the walk-through at the end asks which level was delivered, whether it was checked under a raking light, and takes the client’s signature on the touch-up list before the job can be closed.
On top of everything Daybook does for every trade — the full list is here — drywall & finishing gets its own tools.
Boarding per sheet — walls, ceilings and 4 × 12s on their own lines; board, tape and finish per square foot at Level 3 or Level 4; taping and finishing only where somebody else hung it; a Level 5 skim per square foot; corner bead, bulkheads and arched work per foot; patches small, medium and large; steel stud and fire-rated assemblies per foot — a list, not a takeoff, because that is how a drywaller prices.
Finishers, boarders and labourers by the hour, boarding by the sheet, finishing by the level, popcorn and stipple removal and fresh knockdown by the square foot, nail pops by the room, batts, poly and acoustic sealant, Type X and moisture-resistant board, compound, tape and bead, lifts, scaffold and a dustless sander, mobilization, bins and dump fees — a labelled starter list on day one, with your own prices on it.
A site measure that records what is on the walls now, the ceiling heights, the sheet count and whether the insulation still has to pass inspection; a stage log for boarded, inspected, taped, coated and sanded with the sheets hung that day; and a finish walk-through with the raking-light check, the touch-up list and the client’s signature — the walk-through has to be done before the job can be marked complete.
New construction, basement development, renovation boarding and finishing, repair and patch, textured ceilings, insulation and vapour barrier, commercial and steel stud — the job types, the quoting examples and the document preview all speak drywall, down to a sample quote priced by the square foot with a Level 5 skim offered as an optional line.
Referral, builder / GC, painter and property manager as marketing sources; boarding & taping, basement, repair, ceilings, insulation and commercial as job specialties; homeowner, builder / GC, property manager, insurance work and commercial as client tiers — seeded on day one, yours to edit.
Board and hang, tape, mud and coat, sand and skim, bead, butt joint and tapered edge, Type X, MR board, poly, nail pop, popcorn and stipple — drafts and job summaries use a drywaller’s vocabulary, and the auto-classifier files a job as new construction, a basement, a renovation, a repair, a ceiling, insulation or commercial steel stud.
Your account starts with a real drywall site template — a levels-of-finish page included — edit it in the app, and the quote-request form drops leads straight into Daybook with the job address already on them.
Your own numbers beat any feature list — put the sheet count and the level of finish in, and read the quote back in your own words.
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