pressurized walls, temporary walls, partitions, room dividers, pressurized wall, pressure walls, add a room

Company Rating 

Nov. 2008

Company

Company Website Link

Overall Rating

Customer 

Service

Price

Customer Satisfaction

Liability Insurance

Wall Creators, Inc. 

www.wallcreators.com

9.7

9.8

9.5

9.7

Yes

The Wall People

www.thewallpeople.com

9.5

9.4

8.5

9.5

Yes

Pressurized Walls Of New York

www.pressurizedwallsny.com

9.4

8.9

9.9

9.3

Yes

Room Dividers

www.roomdividersny.com

8.6

8.7

8.5

9.2

Yes

Manhattan Pressurized Walls

www.manhattanpressurizedwalls.com

8.5

8.6

8.3

9.4

Yes

1Wall2Rooms

www.1wall2rooms.com

8.4

8.6

8.4

9.0

Yes

The battle for a piece of New York's growing Pressurized Wall market is a friendly but heated one with New York's top six Wall companies controlling about 99% of the market. With the cost of renting an apartment in New York City showing no signs of cooling off, and with many home owners bailing out of their homes and searching for an apartment, there is certainly room for all of the Wall companies to survive. Other wall companies in New York not on our list did not provide enough data to be rated or were not considered full-time professional wall companies.    

 The above ratings are compiled on a monthly basis and averaged over a 6-month period through random calls and emails to the companies, reviews from landlords, doormen and supers regarding their professionalism of the companies, feedback from a variety of customers about their experiences, close monitoring of company advertising tactics, website analysis, Google ratings, price quotes and of course, customer service. Overall, most of the companies in our profile has had its good and bad moments but most responses were favorable. Needless to say, there will always be a few unhappy customers especially when you spend a $1,000 for a temporary wall.

Where the companies differ greatly is in prize, size, advertising, customer service, leasing and non-leasing  options and most importantly options available in terms of wall design like seamless or non-seamless walls. Customer satisfaction is based on a review of 10 or more customers each month. 

This month, we see a major shift in the ratings war with a new addition that seams destined to reach the top spot.  Now trhat the busy season is over it will be interesting to see who starts the New Year off in the Top spot.  Wall Creators held the position for all of 2008 but may be in the sights of a new comer for 2009.  

This is a non-bias rating derived from hundreds of satisfied customers and an ongoing amount of research into each company.

1. Wall Creators, Inc.  ( Ranking #1)

With the Pressurized Wall busy season now winding down, Wall Creators as begun to offer a few year end specials.  With Pressurized Walls of New York (formerly Room Creators) now offering seamless walls and walls of any shape and size, Wall creators will have to tap into its creative juices to stay on top in 2009. Our review team has continued to make numerous inquiries to Wall Creator's and it looks like they may merge with another company but no formal announcement has been made. 

 Wall Creators no longer offers student discounts, but most of the other companies do not as well so that should not have a big affect on the company overall.  Quality on their "seamless" walls remains supreme and prices have come down some since the summer crunch so now would be the a great time to book a wall with them.

They still offer a "100% Best Price" Guarantee on any size/shape wall and will beat any quote by one of the other companies listed here but if price is your main concern, Pressurized Walls of NY might give you a better deal.   Wall Creators has a large enough customer base and long-term reputation on building great walls so battling PWNY over price may not be in their best interest.

As one of New York's biggest and oldest Wall companies, they know how to build walls and have the "people power" to build as many as they wish. Connections with landlords and brokers do not hurt either and an unlimited amount of referrals has made advertising almost unnecessary. But as the smaller companies continue to nip away at the market, expect "The Wall" to come up with a new game plan to keep The Wall People near the top of the pile (at least in terms of size that is.)

 Prices are still somewhat high for non-seamless walls so if you are on a tight budget they may not be the right choice but if you need a wall fast, put The Wall People in your speed dial.  The leasing of their walls is still a questionable issue as is the use of wood strips as the only option to cover the seams but when you've been considered the creator of "The Wall” there will always be those who will call you first.

Several months ago, Room Creators entered our listing in the number 7 spot.  The company offered the best prices by far but only built straight unpainted, non-seamless walls.  Several rumors spread that they might merge with one of the larger wall companies but those rumors did not play out.  Instead, Room Creators has changed its name to Pressurized Walls of New York aka.  PWNY, and has made its way to the number 3 spot on our list for a number of reasons.   The recent serge is due to the fact that the company now builds any shape or size of wall, offers painting of the walls and also offers "seamless" as well as non-seamless walls. But best of all, the company offers the best prices by far among any listed Pressurized Wall company including Wall Creators.  

 Through our investigations, it appears that the company intentionally waited until the end of the busy season for wall companies, which ended in October, to not only announce its new name but also its new line of services.  This seams like a brilliant idea as it allows the company to promote itself and build its customer satisfaction rating before the busy season begins again next Spring.   Wall Creators, Inc dominated the list of wall companies for all of 2008 but PWNY seams like it has its eyes set on the number 1 spot for 2009.  The company was fully booked for the entire summer with a 3-4 week waiting period so its clear that customer satisfaction is not an issue.  Beating all the other companies on price will help PWNY climb to the top in the coming months but we are sure that  Top Dog Wall Creators, will not give up the crown that easily.

These guys are still going "head to head with 1Wall 2 Rooms and we have received similar price quotes from both and customer service was equal as well.  Customers are often confused as to which was which.  They both offer the same great workmanship and very fast service.  They still offer no frills, quick reliable service and are slowly chipping away at the heavy market share that the top companies command.  Once again, leasing of walls as well as use of strips to cover the seams (non-seamless) is also questionable. 

We have removed Wallzilla from our list since after a year of speculation we have determined that they are in fact MPW.  Last Spring, we notice identical photos in the galleries of MPW and Wallzilla wwhcih peak our interest but through numerous inquiries we have concluded that they are in fact one company.   Things seamed to have slowed down some from the crazy peak season when you could see the MPW truck almost on a daily basis.  But they still build great "seamless" walls and if price is no object, they offer a great product.

Clean basic, "non-seamless" walls is what these guys specilize in and at a reasionable price. If all you need is a plain white wall with a door, they can give you just that in just a few hours.

.

What to look for when choosing a Pressurized Wall Company.

1. Make sure the company has liability insurance.  If not and damage is done to your apartment, elevator, building lobby, etc...You could be held liable. In addition, if the worker is hurt in the apartment they could file a lawsuit against you as well. 

2. Choose a company that specializes in Pressurized Walls.  Hiring the handyman next door could lead to disasters.  Its like going to a chiropractor when you have a toothache or taking your BMW to a Toyota dealer for repairs.  Companies that do not specialize in building Pressurized Walls are more then likely just trying to jump on the bandwagon of this hot new trend. Demand for Pressurized Wall services is very high  so a legitimate wall company would not have time to do anything else but build walls.

3. Make sure the company has a website with photos of some of the walls they have built.  Also, ask for references. 

4. Find out exactly what you are getting and how the wall will look.  Several of the respondents to our survey were not informed by their wall company that the wall would not have what's called a "seamless" finish. Meaning that the wall would look like the rest of their apartment instead of having wood strips place on all of the seams on the Temporary wall.  Also, find out the exact color of your apartment and see if you can have the wall company match the paint. There are many shades of white so ask your super for the exact color.  If the wall company paints your wall standard white for example and your apartment is Linen white, the new wall will stick out like a sore thumb.

5. Make sure there are no "hidden fees" i.e.. ( security deposits you were not told about, removal fees, walk-up fees, painting fees, etc....)  Get everything in writing before you make a commitment.

6. Choose one of the companies listed above!!  We have spent an enormous amount of time researching the Pressurized Wall Phenomenon and we assure you that if the company you want to use is not on the above list, they are not a full-service wall company.  Several new companies and handymen have pop-up over the past few months offering Pressurized Wall services.  Clearly this trend will continue to grow as more and more contractors realize that the Wall business can be very lucrative.  We will do our best to keep you informed as to who the real players are. No other company to our knowledge is monitoring the Pressurized Wall business so we take pride in being the first as well as giving you the most up date information. 

7.  Find out if your wall is leased.  If so, you will have to pay an extra fee to the company each year to keep it.  Some of the customers surveyed were not told this by the wall company and were charged a fee to keep the wall after the first year.   

About   B & D Marketing, LLC:

B & D Marketing, LLC was formed to provide a variety of online services to students, NYC renters and New Yorkers looking for free access to valuable information.  Over the coming year we will offer independent reviews of new Restaurants, Nightclubs RE Brokers, Apartment Buildings and other service companies in New York. Our decision to review Pressurized Wall companies was due to the lack of valuable information on this growing trend.  The founders of  B & D Marketing, LLC are all college students or young professionals trying to make it in the Big Apple and we have all had Pressurized Walls built at one time or another.

 B & D Marketing, LLC. has no paid sponsors and is not affiliated with any business that we review.