Do you stand behind your fire-rated work in High Park?

Yes. We install to code and walk the High Park job with you, and if something is not right we come back and make it right.

Can I put an access hatch in my rated garage ceiling?

Only with a rated detail. Any hatch interrupts the assembly. It is a common find in High Park garages where storage access was cut in afterwards and never addressed.

How do I know which rated assembly my High Park project needs?

It comes from your drawings or from the building official at permit stage, not from us and not from the board supplier. We build to the assembly you have been given, and if what is specified does not match what is on site we will tell you before boarding.

Do you handle the firestopping as well as the board?

We firestop the penetrations that fall within our scope and coordinate the sequence with the other trades so nothing is covered before it is sealed. Where a penetration belongs to another trade, we flag it rather than tape over it.

Where is fire-rated drywall required?

The standard High Park fire-rating locations: garage-to-house walls, basement suites and party walls between units. We confirm what your High Park project needs.

What if someone cuts into it later?

That is the risk — a fan, a light or a duct added later can quietly undo the assembly. We photograph the rated work before covering it so there is a record of what is behind the finish for whoever works on the house next.

Fire-Rated Drywall High Park Edmonton | Type X Board

Fire-rated drywall in High Park, built as a complete assembly

A fire-rated wall is not a board, it is an assembly. In High Park that means the specified board thickness and type, the specified stud and screw spacing, taped joints, and every penetration firestopped. Miss any one of those and the rating is not there, whatever the board says on the back.

Type X board to the assembly on the drawings
Party walls and legal-suite separations
Party walls between units
Furnace and mechanical room enclosures
Finished clean and inspection-ready
Garage ceilings and garage-to-house separations in High Park
High Park coverage — we come to you

Type X and Type C are not interchangeable

Two different boards

Type X is the common 5/8 inch rated board. Type C carries additional additives that resist shrinkage at high heat and is specified where an assembly — often a ceiling — depends on the board staying in place longer.

Substituting downward fails

Where drawings call for Type C, Type X is not an equivalent, and an inspector who spots it will fail the assembly. We order to the specification on your High Park drawings and tell you if what is on site does not match it.

High Park drywall in context

About High Park

High Park is a smaller neighbourhood laid out in a grid pattern and the lots are of a generous size.

What we see in High Park

In High Park the drywall work is plaster and lath repair, popcorn and stipple ceiling removal, careful patching into original surfaces. We confirm what your home actually needs on site, in writing, before anything starts.

Board thickness and why 5/8 is standard here

Not just thicker

Type X is 5/8 inch because the core needs that mass and the glass-fibre reinforcement to hold together as the gypsum calcines under heat.

The common error

Using 1/2 inch board in a rated High Park assembly because it is what was on site. It looks identical once finished and it is not the tested assembly. Board arriving on site is checked against the specification rather than assumed.

Fire-rated drywall in a High Park garage ceiling

The most common one we do

Where High Park living space sits over a garage, the ceiling normally needs a rated separation. It is also the assembly most often found incomplete on older homes and DIY conversions — board up, joints untaped, pot lights cut straight through.

What we check before quoting

We look at what is above the ceiling, what is already installed, and whether the existing board is actually rated. Sometimes the honest answer is that the existing ceiling only needs its joints completed and its penetrations sealed rather than replacing.

Inspection, and what we hand over

Sequencing with your inspection

Rated assemblies in High Park are usually inspected before the finish covers them, so we sequence boarding and firestopping to suit your inspection date rather than working ahead and covering something the inspector needs to see.

If something fails

If an assembly does not pass, we want to hear the inspector reason directly. Most failures are specific and fixable — a screw pattern, an untaped joint, an unsealed penetration — and are corrected faster from the actual note than from a second-hand summary.

What makes drywall fire-rated in High Park

The board is only part of it

Type X board carries a glass-fibre reinforced core that holds together longer under heat. That is what earns the rating in a lab, but only inside a tested assembly: a stated board thickness, stud spacing, screw pattern and joint treatment.

Why that matters on your job

Putting Type X on a wall does not make the wall rated. In High Park we build the assembly the drawings specify, because an inspector is checking the system, not the sticker on the board.

One-hour and two-hour assemblies

What the number means

A rating is how long a tested assembly resisted fire under laboratory conditions, not a guarantee about your High Park house. One hour is the common residential separation; two hour appears between units in some buildings.

Why it changes the build

A two-hour assembly is usually two layers of board with offset joints, which changes material, labour and thickness. It is specified on the drawings and it is not something to substitute down.

How it works

Simple, clean, on schedule — Fire-Rated Drywall in High Park Edmonton

Free quote

We come out to your High Park Edmonton property, take a real look at the fire-rated drywall, and hand you a fixed price on the spot — no guessing, no vague ballpark. Every fire-rated drywall quote in High Park Edmonton starts with an honest, on-site assessment.

Book a day

We pick a day that works for your schedule and show up on time, ready to start the fire-rated drywall in High Park Edmonton. No back-and-forth rescheduling — once it's booked, our team is there.

The work

We keep the dust under control and protect your High Park Edmonton home while we finish the fire-rated drywall to a clean, paint-ready standard. Floors covered, doors sealed off, and the site left tidy at the end of every day.

Walk it with you

We don't pack up till you've walked the finished fire-rated drywall with us and you're happy with the result in High Park Edmonton. If anything needs a second look, we handle it before we call the job done.

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FAQ — Fire-Rated Drywall High Park Edmonton

Fire-Rated Drywall High Park Edmonton: your questions answered

Do you stand behind your fire-rated work in High Park?: Yes. We install to code and walk the High Park job with you, and if something is not right we come back and make it right.
Can I put an access hatch in my rated garage ceiling?: Only with a rated detail. Any hatch interrupts the assembly. It is a common find in High Park garages where storage access was cut in afterwards and never addressed.
How do I know which rated assembly my High Park project needs?: It comes from your drawings or from the building official at permit stage, not from us and not from the board supplier. We build to the assembly you have been given, and if what is specified does not match what is on site we will tell you before boarding.
Do you handle the firestopping as well as the board?: We firestop the penetrations that fall within our scope and coordinate the sequence with the other trades so nothing is covered before it is sealed. Where a penetration belongs to another trade, we flag it rather than tape over it.
Where is fire-rated drywall required?: The standard High Park fire-rating locations: garage-to-house walls, basement suites and party walls between units. We confirm what your High Park project needs.
What if someone cuts into it later?: That is the risk — a fan, a light or a duct added later can quietly undo the assembly. We photograph the rated work before covering it so there is a record of what is behind the finish for whoever works on the house next.

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Fire-rated drywall in High Park, built as a complete assembly