Basement & Garage Drywall in Huntington, WV | Moisture-Resistant Board Done Right
Basements and garages are where drywall meets water and code. Huntington sits in a river valley with humid summers, and a lot of the city’s basements are below the grade of the street, so the wrong board in the wrong place turns into a mold and sag repair within a few years. Drywall Repair Huntington hangs and finishes basements and garages with the board and the details that survive here.
That means moisture- and mold-resistant board on basement walls, a gap at the slab, fire-rated 5/8-inch board on the wall and ceiling between an attached garage and the house, and a plan for the moisture before the first sheet goes up.
Basement finishes
Before drywall, we want to know the basement stays dry: no active seepage, gutters and grading handled, a dehumidifier plan for July. Then mold-resistant board on the walls, held a half inch off the slab so it never wicks, with a vinyl base to cover the gap. Ceilings get 5/8 board or a drop ceiling depending on how much access you want to the plumbing above. Finished to level 4 and primed.
Garages: fire separation and durability
The wall between an attached garage and the living space, and the ceiling under any bedroom above it, must be 5/8-inch Type X fire-rated board with taped joints under the residential code Cabell County enforces. We hang it, tape it, and finish it to whatever level you want in a garage, usually a fire-taped or level 2 finish unless the garage is a workshop you plan to paint.
Repairing what the water already did
Half our basement calls are repairs, not new work: a finished basement in Westmoreland or along the Guyandotte that took water, or a garage wall a bumper found. Wet sections come out through our water damage repair process and go back with the right board. Impact damage is a standard hole repair.
Utility rooms, laundries, and workshops
Same rules, smaller rooms. Moisture-resistant board around laundry hookups and water heaters, cement board where tile is going, and a durable finish that can take a scrub. If the room is getting shelving or cabinets we mark stud locations on the primer so the next contractor does not have to hunt for them.
Questions about Basement & Garage Drywall
What drywall should be used in a basement?
Mold- and moisture-resistant gypsum board on the walls, held off the slab, over framing with a moisture barrier where the foundation calls for it. Regular board in a Huntington basement is a mold repair waiting to happen.
Does a garage need special drywall?
The shared wall and ceiling between an attached garage and the house need 5/8-inch fire-rated Type X board with taped joints. Other garage walls can use standard board.
How much does it cost to drywall a basement?
Hung and finished, roughly $2.00 to $3.75 per square foot for the moisture-resistant assemblies, based on 2026 cost surveys. We quote the whole basement in writing after seeing it.
Other repairs we handle
Basement & Garage Drywall sits alongside our specialty drywall services, our drywall hole repair & patching service, professional drywall crack repair and ceiling drywall repair services — call and we'll tell you which one your job needs.
Where we work
We take basement & garage drywall jobs across the Tri-State, including drywall repair in Barboursville, Milton drywall repair calls, serving Ona, drywall repair for Hurricane property owners, Drywall Repair Near Ceredo, drywall repair in Kenova, Ashland drywall repair calls, serving Ironton, drywall repair for Proctorville property owners, Chesapeake, OH Drywall Repair and drywall repair in South Point, and the surrounding communities.
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