Drywall Installation: How to Hang Walls
This is the best way to hang drywall horizontally or vertically on the wall.

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Drywall Installation: Applying the Final Coat of Joint Compound
Using taping knives, apply joint compound over all of the joints and fastener heads and feather beyond the edge of the second coat for a smooth surface.

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Drywall Installation: Finishing Inside Corners
Make sure you have enough joint compound for both sides of the joint and press your folded joint tape into the mud using your taping knife.

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Drywall Installation: Materials, Storage Handling
Learn how to choose, store and handle PURPLE drywall for your DIY project.

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Drywall Installation: Cutting for an Electrical Box
Learn how to measure and cut your PURPLE drywall for electrical outlets and switches.

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Nearly everything on television is a guilty pleasure, a concept useful to viewers who need to explain away their addictions to certain shows, especially the trashiest stuff. The dumber the show, the bigger the guilt and the better the pleasure.

Ive had to watch so much TV over the past five years as a critic so much of it bad that I feel the poke of shame only when I watch a show in which real people make an honest attempt to finish a difficult household chore or a major project that I would never, ever want to do, especially in the summer months. Which is one reason why I derive some sick, lazy happiness from watching spouses argue with each other on DIY Networks Renovation Realities.

Buried deep down in the schedule of DIY (an offshoot of HGTV) and almost always a rerun, Renovation Realities couldnt be simpler: A homeowning couple (usually married, usually in flyover states) has decided to renovate a room in their house (usually the kitchen) completely on their own, having little to no practical experience in the construction biz.

The cameras are there to merely document what occurs; there is no handsome host in a tight T-shirt and tool belt to goad and guide them through each decision or to come to their rescue with his capable brawn. There is no crew to hammer and saw things to completion. There is no narration, save for some on-screen details (set in drab, white Courier type against a black screen) that tell the viewer how many days the homeowners have set aside to complete the work (usually vacation days from their jobs) and their projected budget.

In seven seasons of Renovation Realities, the show has rarely, if ever, included the scene known in the home-improvement genre as the reveal, because there is never anything to reveal, except excuses. After days of sweat and sore muscles, the subjects of Renovation Realities almost always concede defeat. They run out of time and money. The drywall is only half-finished. The granite guys didnt deliver the countertops. The tiles would not line up; the refrigerator wouldnt fit through the door. The mostly demolished wall that prevents the life-altering promise of the open floor plan had in fact masked all the plumbing from upstairs, which will now have to be rerouted by a professional.

Once in a great while, Renovation Realities is about a couple still young enough or childless enough or just happy-go-lucky enough to treat the entire project as a useful learning experience. They flirt their way through the dust of their demolition, laugh off the discovery of mouse turds and even affirm each other during the installation of new cabinets, a task that leads so many of the shows couples to swear at each other and burst into tears. Not so the lovebirds. Hammers fall on heads, cabinets are dropped on toes, drill bits are ruined, and still theres a charge in the air, not just from the bad wiring. The giggling and cute nicknames never stop. Get a room, you two. A finished room.

But, as any couple who has been together longer than a decade already knows, there is more often a dangerous frisson when things come unhinged. If you watch closely, usually between the first and second commercial breaks, you can see marital rage and desire flip as easily and excitedly as a circuit breaker. The guiltiest pleasure of all, I suppose, would be for a couple on Renovation Realities to get so angry at each other that they drop their sanders and sledgehammers and make wild love, right then and there, on the Formica countertops theyre so eager to rip away. Like any dedicated voyeur, I keep hoping.

Renovation Realities usually finds the couple whose darker dynamics and frayed nerves get the best of them. By the third or fourth day, she just wants it done, he just wants it done right, and they no longer care that we are seeing them at their worst. Their children keep wailing from another room . Would divorce be easier? Would death?

The kitchen (or the new deck or the finished basement) has become a do-or-die fantasy, a vision gleaned from reading too many shelter magazines and watching too many home-improvement shows that made it all look far too simple. Im never happier than when someone on Renovation Realities lets out a stream of obscenities (all of them bleeped out) and storms off. I feel bad about how much I love watching people melt down.

In these fixer-upper homes occupied by fixer-upper Americans, a viewer sees the horrible psychic toll in the mythology of ownership. Its the only home-improvement show that dissuades you from undertaking any project at all; everything is fine the way it is. Renovation Realities is a 30-minute excuse to leave the to-do list undone.

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LEETONIA- The Leetonia school board Thursday night decided to develop specifications and bid out the paving of the driveway at the K-12 campus.

The meeting agenda included the approval of a $22,950 contract with Buckeye Paving & Concrete to resurface the drive at the campus prior to the start of school in August, but the board chose to remove the item after deciding to develop specs for the project so that each estimate will be for the exact same project. The current estimates did not follow a spec sheet.

The board will have to bid out the project since one of the estimates that a board member wished to accept is over the $25,000 limit permitted without the bidding process.

According to Schools Superintendent Rob Mehno the drive was not included in the parking lot resurfacing funded by the Ohio Schools Facilities Commission last year after fault was found with the contractor who had completed the work when the campus was built 12 years ago. The OSFC found that the deterioration of the drive was due to natural wear and tear.

The spec sheet is expected to be developed today and advertisement for bids published the next two weeks, so that the bids can be opened in July and the project completed before the start of school.

In other business the board discussed its use of facilities policy which credits groups for use of the concession stand during events. The policy can result in the district spending more money than it generates in rental fees, so the board is considering eliminating the credit. The board took no action regarding the issue.

The board also approved the services of DDTA Services of East Palestine for drug and alcohol testing of bus drivers and the Columbiana County Community Action Agency as the bus physician of record to the annual bus driver physicals; and a $50,133 contract with the Columbiana County Educational Service Center for a school psychologist for 2014-2015.

Additionally the board approved 2015 temporary appropriations at $2,693,000 and accepted donations $1,000 from the Historical Society for the 2014 Historical Society Scholarship, $2,000 from the Leetonia Eagles for their 2014 scholarship, $4,000 from the Leetonia Ruritan Club for four $1,000 scholarships, $1,500 from the Leetonia PTO for the K-4 Reader's Notebooks, $555.65 from the Leetonia PTO to the Drama Club Fund, $100 from St. Jacob's United Church of Christ for the High School Band Fund, $250 from the Washingtonville VFW for the Band Fund and $50 from Diane Perkins for the Perkins/Totora Scholarship Fund.

Under personnel, the board accepted the resignation of Cheryl Almy, superintendent secretary/EMIS coordinator and public relations coordinator, effective July 4. The board also approved 10 extended days for guidance counselor Mary Rice for prior to the start of school in August, with board member Larry Duko voting no citing his desire to see the extended days be included in negotiated contracts instead of at the request of the superintendent.

The board also agreed to maintain a 5 percent pick up of STRS for an employee after the STRS increases 1 percent. The employee will incur the additional 1 percent. Duko voted to support the action, but noted that he believed the district should not be picking up any of the retirement for employees.

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FCDA Refutes Death Of Mother And Baby In Lungu Village Demolition
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has denied reports that two persons, a woman and her child died during the demolition.

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Nine News Sydney: Port Kembla Stack Demolition to proceed (19/2/2014)
Mike Dalton speaks with locals ahead of the demolition of the 198 metre copper stack.

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