Where the family started
Drywall
The family's first trade: hanging, taping and finishing board on new construction and closing walls after the wiring.
Chapter 01
The family's first trade
Before there was a wire on the Craine name, there was drywall. The family's story starts in the 1950s with Ralph Craine and his business, Craine's Drywall, in Springdale, Arkansas. Hanging and finishing board is where the family learned how a job should be done, and the values Ralph put into it are the ones the company still points to.
In 1991 Ralph's son Robert Craine expanded the business to include electrical services, and Craine's Electric and Drywall was born. The two trades stayed under one name, which is why the company's logo shows two tradesmen side by side: one electrician, and one drywaller holding a taping knife and a mud pan.
Today the third generation, led by Josh Craine, carries it forward from the office on Elm Springs Road. Drywall is not a sideline for a company that started in it. It is still in the name, and it is still the part of the business with the longest history.
A new-build kitchen with finished walls and natural wood cabinets before the appliances go in
Hang, tape, mud and finish on new construction
On a new build, drywall is the stage where a house stops being a frame and starts being rooms. Board is hung over the studs and the wiring, the seams are taped, and coats of mud are laid over the tape and the screw heads until the wall reads as one flat surface. Done well, nobody notices it. Done badly, every light in the house finds the joint.
Will Trapp had Craine's do the drywall on his new construction home and called them one of the best subcontractors his family dealt with throughout the entire homebuilding process, priced competitively with outstanding results. He singled out one of the crew: “Specifically, Seth was a joy to work with. He was a quick and great communicator.”
Chapter 03
Closing walls after the electrical, and owning it when something goes wrong
Because Craine's does the electrical as well, the company is often the one closing the wall it just wired. That removes a handoff. The crew that knows where the boxes and cables sit is the crew that hangs the board around them and patches the opening when a fixture, a switch or a circuit has to change after the fact.
Then there is what happens when something goes wrong. A bathtub on Will Trapp's new home turned up broken, and nobody could say whether it happened before the drywall or after. Craine's offered to pay for the entire repair. He chose to split the bill, because he felt he should have protected the tubs better and another sub may have broken it. In his words: “Craine just wanted to make it right.”
“Craine's did our drywall on our new construction home. They were one of the best subcontractors we dealt with throughout the entire homebuilding process.” Will Trapp, Google review, 5 stars.
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