Ellisdrywall

Ellisdrywall is really Gary Ellis working alone (with a hanger, Bill, on bigger jobs) — a drywall and plaster specialist based around New Bedford, Massachusetts. Thumbtack's file credits the business with 11 years in business, and virtually every one of the 44 reviews on record is about hanging, taping, patching or matching drywall and plaster, not painting. The volume here is unusual for a one-and-a-half-person operation: 44 reviews dating back to a 2020 Thumbtack job, and the overwhelming majority are five stars. This summer, reviewers described him as on time and efficient, respectful of a homeowner working from home, and leaving a seamless finished product. The specific jobs pile up: a 2023 review describes a full sheetrock replacement on a 14-foot vaulted great-room ceiling after 30 years without renovation; another from the same year describes drywalling a basement ceiling start to finish, on budget; and in 2020, a reviewer wrote that Gary came back free of charge to patch a few mistakes they had made themselves after his work was done. What people keep coming back to is the communication and the finish quality together. Reviewers describe morning check-ins on what he'd be working on, a text at the end of each day, and, in one case, texturing a repaired ceiling so precisely that a reviewer said you'd never know there had been a hole in it at all. On pricing, several reviewers compared him against competing quotes — one got four different estimates and was glad they went with Gary; another priced his bid against five others and called it fair and transparent. There isn't much to flag. Thumbtack's 16 ratings include one at two stars, though no review text for it appears anywhere in what's shown, so what went wrong there isn't known. Otherwise the picture is consistent across Google and Thumbtack, both landing around 4.8–4.9 stars. For drywall hanging, taping, plaster repair or matching an existing texture after a repair, this is squarely his trade. Just note that his listing here is filed under house painting rather than drywall — worth confirming with him directly that the specific work you need is what he does before booking.