Hanging, taping, finishing — and the patch job that was meant to take an hour. Drywall lives or dies on board count and finish level, and on whether the small work gets billed at all. TradesOps quotes by sheet and square foot, tracks the crew across several jobs a day, and makes the two-hour repair as easy to invoice as the whole basement.
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Each job type comes with the waste factor and board thickness that suits it — a garage defaults to 5/8", a renovation carries more waste than new construction.
New Construction
New build — walls and ceilings throughout
Renovation / Remodel
Remodel with demo and new drywall
Basement Finish
Finishing an unfinished basement
Garage
Garage walls and ceiling (fire-rated)
Commercial Tenant Improvement
Office buildout or commercial space
Patch & Repair
Patching holes, water damage, or small areas
Ceiling Only
New ceiling install or replacement
Custom / Other
Custom scope — add materials manually
Loaded on day one so you are not typing in a catalogue. Every price is yours to change, and once you change it every future quote uses your number.
Board
1/2" Drywall (4x8) · 5/8" Drywall (4x8) · Moisture Resistant (4x8) · 1/2" Drywall (4x12)
Finishing
Joint Compound (5 gal) · Joint Compound (3.5 qt) · Setting Compound (18 lb) · Sanding Screens (5 pack)
Trim
Corner Bead (8 ft) · J-Bead (10 ft) · L-Bead (10 ft)
Tape
Paper Tape (500 ft) · Mesh Tape (300 ft)
Not the dramatic failures — the ordinary ones that happen on a normal week.
A level 4 quote finishing to level 5 is a day of somebody's labour you never billed. The finish sits on the quote and carries onto the work order the crew actually reads.
Patches and repairs are quick enough that the paperwork costs more than the work. Quote, sign and invoice from a phone on site, so the small ones stop leaking.
Give it the wall and ceiling area and it returns sheets, compound, tape and bead together — including the extra the renovation job needs over the new build.
The estimate is the start of the job, not the end of the paperwork.
Estimate, send, get it signed, convert to an invoice and take payment online.
Who is on what, clock in and out on site, and hours that feed payroll.
Budgets, daily logs, photographs, punch lists, change orders and handoff.
Every call, form fill and referral in one pipeline, with the chasing automated.
What each job made, from the quote, the hours and the materials on it.
Tickets, toolbox talks, incidents and insurance, with reminders before they expire.
Either. Enter the area and it converts to sheets using the board size you are hanging, or price the whole job by the square foot. Both come off the same measurements, so they cannot disagree.
Yes, and they are set up differently on purpose. New construction, renovation, basement finish, garage, commercial fit-out, patch and repair, and ceilings each carry their own waste factor and material list.
Raise a change order against the job, get it signed on a phone, and it flows into the invoice. The extra coats you were asked for on Tuesday end up on the bill instead of in an argument.
Fourteen days, no card. Quote a real job and see whether the number comes out right.