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When you consider that drywall covers the vast majority of your home's walls and ceilings, it's almost inevitable you'll occasionally need to fill a hole. Sometimes the culprit is a doorknob, or a playful youngster -- or both. A protective doorknob medallion that sticks or screws onto the wall can hide and prevent this kind of dent. Even in new home construction, it's quite possible that at least one wall will have a patch before it's had its first coat of paint.

You'll simplify the repair process by making the patch first, then tracing its outline onto the wall. When you cut the hole, you know the patch will fit. Reversing the procedure results in a tedious trial-and-error sequence.

Home centers or hardware stores also stock a variety of drywall patches that can speed the repair. Some patches have a self-adhesive back; others must be embedded into joint compound.

It's a good idea to patch holes promptly. If you wait until a day before guests arrive, you probably won't have enough drying time for the coats of compound and touch-up paint.

Checklist

Time Allow 30 minutes to insert the patch and apply the first coat of compound

Tools Square, utility knife, saw to cut plywood strips, jab saw, drill/driver, joint compound, mud pan, drywall knife

Skills Cutting drywall, driving screws, applying tape and joint compound

Prep Put down a dropcloth to protect finished flooring

Materials Plywood strips, screws, scrap drywall panel for patch material, drywall tape

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Need help finding a home remodeling contractor in your local area? We have a directory list of general residential contractors and residential designers for home projects. You can find someone to design, remodel, or replace just about anything in your house. It does not matter if it is a small renovation project, an item that needs to be fixed or repaired, an installation job, or build a major addition to your property.

It is not easy to find good, qualified, licensed companies. Complete a request form with information about your project. We will help match requests with a prescreened home improvement company and you will receive a price estimate without cost. Our service is time efficient and you have no obligation to hire the designer, installer, builder or remodeler that contacts you.

Our site is like using a custom made local directory and we intend to replace traditional search methods. You submit your request outlining your project details. Businesses that are interested in completing your project request contact you and provide you a quote. The companies that have the time and interest in providing you their install, repair, or replacement service contact you.

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Looking for a Maryland Drywall Contractor?

Glenn Construction provides a variety of drywall services in Maryland, including:

Drywall and plaster repairs are one of our specialty services. We have the expertise to patch holes, repair nail pops, settlement cracks, seams and tape joints, as well as repairing damage from water, smoke, flood and fire. Our MD drywall company can match stippled and textured finishes as well. Most repairs can be scheduled within 24 hours.

Not every home or room is the same. With our custom drywall services, you can transform current rooms and build new rooms the way you want it. Our specialty drywall and sheetrock services include:

Are you building a new home or room and need to install new drywall? We have experienced crews in place, ready to handle large jobs for new home construction and custom homes. From home additions and basements to garages and attics, we can install drywall for any construction project. Whether you are a home builder or a homeowner who has a remodeling project that requires drywall, contact Glenn Construction for all your Maryland drywall installation projects!

Many homeowners come to us concerned that installing or repairing drywall will cause a mess, but with Glenn Construction, you wont have to worry about that! Our MD drywall company maintains cleanliness during every single one of our drywall repair and installation projects. This includes using drop cloths and other aids during the process, taping off registers and return vents and wet sanding as needed. After the project is completed, we clean, sweep or vacuum all affected areas.

If you need a Maryland drywall contractor, contact us today to schedule your free estimate. We are easily accessible and quickly reply to your messages. Email or call (410) 451-1600.

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Drywall Clinic at Technical High School Promotes Construction Careers Part 2 of 3
On March 24, 2015 a group of construction professionals from Marek once again volunteered their time to instruct high school students in drywall installation at the new state-of-the-art Dr....

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Dependable, Professional and Beautify done. These are some of the comments we receive from the people who have employed us. People like you who have made us the preferred drywall contractors in Calgary and Edmonton.

With 12 years of quality workmanship and significant growth to more than 3 provinces, Atomik Interiors has developed a strong compliment of industry skilled employees able to undertake larger, more complex and cutting edge commercial and residential drywall projects.

We work with quality and durable building products specifically installed to meet your design.

Our commercial staff are highly skilled and get the job done within the scheduled time frame with both accuracy and professionalism.

For your home or your office, we offer a comprehensive and innovative selection of complete drywall services, designed and installed for both creative and functional spaces.

We will install and create cost effective drywall soffits, curves, domes, or flawless flat ceilings in either drywall of suspension systems.

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Borough Director of Community Development John Ernst said April 1 that an $80,000 change order will be needed for several changes of equipment and furniture locations, moving utility lines and other work identified as plans meet reality.

Our thinking is, we dont really want to spend the amount of money were spending on the building, and not have it work the way it want it to work on opening day, Ernst said.

Those change order items were identified after staff noted the new building does not feature a main reception desk for visitors, a feature the old borough hall closed in November 2013 did but the current temporary complex does not.

After we have been in the trailers, and working with equipment for a period of time, weve realized some of the decision we made about how we will work in the new building will probably not be as effective as they couldve been, Ernst said.

Now, were making the new building respond to the way that were working, he said.

The main motivation of the change order will involve moving power and data lines and lighting equipment near the entrance of the new building, where staff and the architects who designed the new building originally did not plan for a standalone reception desk. The initial plans for the new building would have the public go straight to reception desks similar to those in the temporary trailers, but through our year and a half in the administrative trailers, weve changed that thinking, Ernst said.

In the old borough hall, the receptionist greeted anyone who came into the office helped direct traffic, maybe stopped traffic there and answered a question, instead of proceeding to a customer service window and asking a question there, where staff who handle specialized functions like bill payments may not know answers to more general questions.

Weve come to realize that that becomes quite cumbersome for staff who are not familiar with the process of dealing with those types of questions that come up, Ernst said, and having a receptionist as a front-line person to help weed out and direct traffic would save staff time elsewhere.

Adding the new reception desk area would require changes like drilling through a concrete floor slab that has already been poured, running wires, opening drywall that has already been installed as the contractor has tried to keep to their schedule to have the building ready for borough use by late August, Ernst said. Other changes also accounted for in that change order include moving electrical and data outlets to fit the furniture that has recently been ordered, converting planned waist-level swing gates into full doors for security purposes, and adding security cameras and emergency call buttons throughout the building, to make staff as safe as we possibly can. Continued...

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Undocumented immigrants hold more white-collar jobs and fewer blue-collar jobs today than they did before the national recession of 2007-2009, but most remain concentrated in lower-skilled, low-paying jobs, much more so than U.S.-born workers, according to a report released Thursday by the Pew Research Center in the District.

The report, based on a five-year study from 2007 to 2012, found that the size of the illegal immigrant workforce has remained at 5.1 percent of all workers, even though the total number of illegal immigrants has fallen from a peak of 12.2 million in 2007 to about 11.2 million in 2012.

Overall, it described an undocumented workforce that has stabilized during a period of economic recovery and has moved up in certain semi-skilled and professional occupations, but that has remained limited by language barriers, poor education and legal status and clustered in low-level occupations.

The senior demographer for Pew, Jeffrey Passel, presented the reports findings at a Senate hearing Thursday. He stressed that as the illegal population has fallen, its remaining workers have settled into the U.S. and their job prospects have shifted mostly in response to national economic trends.

These are people who are embedded and participating in the economy, Passel said after the hearing. More than 60 percent have been here at least ten years. The changes we see in what they are doing and where they work reflect broader trends.

Although the majority of illegal immigrants are from Mexico, the report noted that in the Washington region, the largest number are from Central America. In Virginia, Maryland and the District, they are employed mainly in service jobs in hotels, restaurants, buildings and grounds, and private homes.

Nationwide, Pew reported, the portion of unauthorized workers in professional or business jobs including sales and office support grew from 10 to 13 percent, while the portion in production and construction declined from 34 to 29 percent. As in the past, though, it said a solid majority still toil at low-wage jobs including farm labor.

[Judges ruling derails plans of immigrants seeking legal status]

Critics of illegal immigration complain that undocumented workers squeeze out American-born workers by undercutting wages. The Pew report did not address that issue, but it found that far higher percentages of illegal immigrants than U.S.-born workers now hold jobs with the least desirable conditions, such as crop picking and animal slaughter.

Sen. Thomas Carper (D-Del), the ranking Democrat at Thursdays hearing, said that U.S. officials need to get serious about enforcing laws against the hiring of undocumented immigrants, but that the government must also provide adequate ways for immigrants to work here legally when we do need help.

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Bob spends a moment with the drywall contractor before speaking with Thad Goodman of Georgia Pacific. Mr. Goodman tells Bob about the unique, mold-resistant properties of DensArmor, the interior...

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