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Lion's Arrow Construction, LLC(435) 494-8171
The finished basement living area from the top of the stairs: a white shiplap chimney breast with a linear electric fireplace, gray walls, gray plank flooring and the white painted stair rail in the foreground.
The basement feature wall part-way through, with plastic sheeting taped over the floor, the ceiling line and the fireplace opening, and the shiplap boards coated white ready for their finish coats.
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Lion's Arrow Construction, LLC · Payson, UT

Drywall, paint and trim in Payson, finished flat.

License 13541077-5501, fully insured. Drag the handle to see a basement of ours part-way through and finished.

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On every job, no exceptions
Licensed and insured
Utah DOPL license — look it up
13541077-5501
Utah, Salt Lake and Wasatch
Serving 3 counties

What we do

Five trades, one crew, one schedule.

Hang, tape, texture, paint and trim are the same crew here, so nobody gets to blame the taper for the paint job. Stucco and flatwork run the same way outside.

The same basement part-way through: the new ceiling board hung and every joint and screw head coated in mud waiting to be sanded, the stair wall patched and filled, and the floor and the far wall sheeted in plastic with a bucket of compound standing in the middle of the room.

Drywall hanging and finishing

Board hung tight, seams taped flat, texture matched to the rest of the house. Repairs too, down to a single patch.

A basement sitting room with the walls and ceiling freshly rolled in a warm off-white, new white baseboard run around the corner, and a doorway through to the hall beyond.

Interior painting

Straight cut lines, two coats, and your house put back together before we leave. The prep is most of the job.

Stucco

A repair either disappears or it announces itself.

Texture matched by hand, on new walls and on walls somebody else patched first.

Stucco

Patch, re-coat, or the full three-coat system. Color and texture matched so a repair does not read as a repair from the street.

A newly poured concrete driveway running the full length of the house to the garage at the back, broom finished across its width with control joints cut in and a utility cover set flush into the slab.

Concrete flatwork

Driveways, patios, walkways and slabs. Prepared base, proper joints, and a finish that is not slick when it rains.

Not sure which one you need? Most people call about a wall and end up talking about the whole room. That conversation is free.

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Recent work

A basement finished around a shiplap fireplace wall

They wanted the basement to read as part of the house rather than as the floor underneath it, and they wanted one wall to be the reason you walk down the stairs. Everything else in the room was built to stay quiet so the fireplace wall could do that job.

Service
Drywall hanging and finishing
Where
Utah County
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The finished basement living room with a television mounted over the shiplap fireplace on a wood mantel shelf, flat gray walls, gray plank flooring and daylight coming in from the window wall on the right.

How a job runs

First call to final walkthrough.

Six steps, the same whether it is one wall or the whole house. The boring ones at the front are why the finish date at the end holds.

  1. The first call

    You tell us what needs doing. We tell you whether it is the kind of work we take and roughly what that costs. If we are not the right outfit for it, you hear that on this call rather than after an estimate.

  2. Walkthrough and measure

    We come to the house and measure. On drywall that means counting sheets and looking at what the framing is doing. On paint it means finding the repair work hiding under the last coat. On concrete it means looking at where the water goes.

  3. A written scope and a fixed price

    You get the scope in writing with a price against it, broken out by trade so you can see what each part costs. Colors, sheens, textures and trim profiles get picked now, because a decision made mid-job is what turns a one-week schedule into three.

  4. Scheduling and materials

    You get a start date and a finish date in writing, on the same page as the price, before anything is torn out or masked off. The material is ordered against those dates. It is the boring step and it is the reason the finish date holds.

  5. Prep, then the work

    Plastic, zip doors and floor protection go up before a tool comes out. Then hang, tape, texture, paint and trim in that order, one crew the whole way through. The site gets swept every night and you get told what happens the next day.

  6. Final walkthrough and punch list

    We walk the job with you, in daylight, and write down every nail hole and light lap you are not happy with. That list gets finished before the final invoice goes out, not after. Then you get the leftover paint labeled by room.

Where we work

Based in Payson. On site by seven.

Three counties, and up to two hours from Utah County for the right job. A crew that spends two hours a day in the truck is a crew that is not on your walls.

Outside those three counties? Call anyway. If it is too far to do properly we will tell you, rather than take the deposit and find out later.

The three counties

Before you call

The questions we get asked most.

Money, timeline and dust, answered honestly, and the same answers you would get standing in your kitchen.

What does drywall or interior paint cost in Payson?

More than a phone estimate and less than the one you were quoted after somebody guessed. The honest answer is that nobody can price your walls without standing in front of them: square footage sets the floor, and what is hiding under the last coat sets the rest. So we walk the job, measure it, and give you a fixed price in writing before anything starts. That number is the number — it does not move unless you change the scope, and if we find something behind a wall you hear about it before we touch it.

How long will the work take?

You get a start date and a finish date in writing, on the same page as the price, before anything is torn out or masked off. What sets those dates is mostly drying rather than crew hours — mud between coats on drywall, paint between coats, concrete before it carries weight — which is why pushing a schedule is how you end up with cracked seams and corner breaks a year later. We will tell you at the walkthrough what your job actually needs, and then we hold the date we gave you.

Do you do all of it, or do I have to hire three people?

All of it. Drywall, texture, paint and trim are one crew and one schedule here, which is the whole point — nobody blames the taper for the paint job or the painter for the seams. If your job only needs one of those trades, that is fine too. We are not going to talk you into work you did not ask for.

Can we live in the house while you work?

Yes, and nearly everybody does. Drywall sanding is the dusty part, so that area gets sealed with plastic and zip doors and sanded with a vacuum sander. Paint is low odor and done a room or two at a time, so you always have somewhere to be. The site gets swept before we leave every day.

Are you licensed and insured?

Yes. Lion's Arrow Construction, LLC holds Utah DOPL contractor license 13541077-5501 and carries liability cover on every job. Ask any contractor for the license number before you let them start, and then actually look it up on the DOPL register — it takes two minutes and it is the cheapest protection you will ever buy.

How does the payment schedule work?

A deposit covers the material we order up front and holds your spot on the calendar. After that you pay against progress at agreed stages, never ahead of work that has not happened. The amounts and the stages are written into the quote before you sign, so there is never a payment you did not see coming. The last one is due after the walkthrough and after the punch list is finished, not before.

Next step

Tell us what needs finishing.

A walkthrough costs you nothing and takes about an hour. You will get a written scope and a fixed price, not a number over the phone.

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Licensed and insured. Utah DOPL 13541077-5501.