I agree with the other reviewer. Sterling is very charming (initially) but then by the end of it, you realize he is either senile/crazy or an extortionist trying to get every penny out of the willing buyer. You will regret it: Buyer beware. This is not a company, this is a one man show where he brings in hack crews for a day that by their work don't know what they are doing. I think Sterling knows what he is doing when it comes to taping and mudding, but my impression is that he is not normally managing himself or crews: that this business is really a side gig where he makes extra $.
When he first came to the house and walked around, he gave a verbal quote of $2 sq ft. Then came the actual quote / contract: 2 pages of everything that he was going to detailed out and not going to do detailed out, and what we had to do to support him- some surprises (especially since I have managed other drywall installations, where this wasn't even something we would have considered); had a price range, and then after bringing back and not using more than 10 sheets of the drywall, charged me the max amount, ~ $4 / sq ft plus a change order fee of $400 for something that took him all of an hour. Had things in there: like customer will help haul drywall in (which my husband regrettably did), will do all the masking and clean up (which we did, but they seemed to take advantage of it by being extra messy), and the price: 2-3x what it should have been, and more than 2x the initial verbal quote. By the time I got the official quote, I was in a bind, had not gotten any other bids, and the pressure was on because my daughter needed to move out of her apartment and into this house (preferably with drywall). Yes, my husband did help bring in dry wall. We also spent days cleaning up after them, in some cases having to replace screens, wash all the woodwork to clean the mud and texture off, outlets and switches that he uncovered so he could have light and power, chucks of mud all over from floors to windows ; we even got to clean up after lunch, including (we think they threw the) stray chicken bones we found in the yard thrown in post a pizza and wings lunch (we have a dog and this is a problem). All the while, he kept telling anyone who would listen how hard the work and the job was and telling me this job, compared to other jobs was "Apples to Oranges"- it was all ceilings and walls- not sure what is oranges about that. Also "he did us a favor" by shimming the drywall (according to Sterling that is the framers job or owners job- not in my experience hiring previous drywallers). As for the masking, he tore some of it down so he could walk through, and then subsequently sprayed again, and of-course I then needed to remask for paint. The cutouts they made in the drywall for the majority of the outlets were more than oversized to where in some cases after "completion of the job" we had to patch tape and mud in order and cover with oversized outlet covers. And I had to deal with him harassing me the whole time "I should charge you for all the stickys you put on the wall (where I identified oversized holes that needed to be patched, which he did not fix) that I had to read them all" relative to the oversized, hacked out holes for electical boxes: using "what I or my husband said to justify what he was doing: "your husband said this", or vice versa, pitting us against eachother. We also had several things turn up missing after he and his guys were the only contractors in the house including a bluetooth speaker, blades for work knifes (I guess they needed them more than we did- being "professional drywallers"), and some other random tools. Mediocre at best, unprofessional, and if you wanted haul in drywall, shim the house, prime in between drywall and mud, and then fix the work post the job completion all the while having to listen to how hard he is working and be harassed /called names in the end of it all , pick Sterling to do your job- otherwise, do yourself a favor, get another quote from a reputable company that will clean up after themselves, that are more interested in doing a good job, and you will have it done in 3-4 days the right way, vs 2 weeks and a lot of grief and extra work on your part, paying a premium for mediocre work. I will say from when he started on June 14th, he was willing to work weekends (as I said Sterling is a one man show, working weekends) to finish by June 27th with texture (2 weeks), and he recommended we prime in- between the drywall mudding and the texture, which we did (but only brought up after he had started). My previous experience getting drywall installed was nothing like this. I am sure Sterling will respond with Apples and Oranges: just the facts as I see them...I can post the contract and pictures, and Sterling may have gotten 10 k out of me, but the drywall is done and an accurate review of what happened is posted- Cheers read more