Residential Drywall Contractor: ZDJ Drywall
Advantages to installing the NO-COAT drywall corner system.
ZDJ DRYWALL (video)
Location: Ogden, UT
Type: Residential/Light Commercial Contractor
Size: 20 Employees
Projects: Mid to high-end custom homes; Commercial
*NO-COAT® user since 2005*
ZACH JARVIS (Owner): “About 200 houses ago, we switched to NO-COAT® – especially for highly volatile spots that have a lot of lateral movement.
No matter what we did - we used vinyl, we used steel, we glued it, stapled it, screwed it – it did not matter. Flat taped it, mesh taped it, hot mud…we always had certain spots crack. We had 80% callbacks. It was a fact of business. We knew that spot cracked.
And we knew…let the house settle, let it crack, we’ll come back and fix it. We switched over NO-COAT® to hopefully save that, and 200 houses later our callback rate is now zero. We have never had a callback since we switched to NO-COAT®.”
JESS WALKER (Finisher): “You cannot damage it. It’s indestructible. It’s bulletproof, I think! If you do it right, you’ll never have a problem with it – ever.”
ZACH JARVIS (Owner): “This is a 1900 square foot house. Typically, after tape, we used 22 boxes of mud to finish this house with flats, metals, everything. By switching to the NO-COAT® system, we can now finish them in under 10 boxes of mud. And that includes all the metal, running our tools, our angles, everything - 10 boxes. At least a 40% savings in mud alone. Basically, every third house is free with mud.”
JESS WALKER (Finisher): “The NO-COAT® system is so much faster. It’s lighter. It’s easier on your body. I’d never go to anything else.”
TIM VERISH (Finisher): “For the corners, it’s the only way to go. We use our 8 inch box, our finish box, and we just fill it full of mud and go right over the corner…you don’t even have to try. On regular corner bead, you’ll have mud falling off, going everywhere, but with this all you have to do is basically slap your box up on the wall…go on it, go for it. I can get through a house like this with my box in an hour – easily.”
JESS WALKER (Finisher): “I was like ‘YES,’ finally something that you can get a straight, even peak with. With a line in the middle – stand on the floor, you can look at the ceiling and tell. If there is a wave in it, you can adjust it while it’s still wet. It looks straight, crisp, clean lines, it all blends together just nice and neat.”
TIM VERISH (Finisher): “It’s the only system I would use. I would never go back to anything else, ever. No matter who I worked for, or where I went, I would request it and buy it myself. That’s how much time it saves.”
NO-COAT® is the world's only Structural Laminate (SLAM™) Drywall Corner Trim System for finishing off-angles, arches, and inside or outside drywall corners.
