Jason Allen Burns of Attleboro, a self-employed construction worker, died Wednesday at home due to complications with diabetes. He was 37.

Born in Attleboro, Mr. Burns was a lifelong resident. He was raised and educated in town and raised his children in Attleboro as well.

Mr. Burns was self-employed in construction for many years, with several years spent working for Jay Cashman on his private island off of Chatham. He specialized in drywall installation and was always helping family and friends with construction projects.

Mr. Burns enjoyed the time spent with close family and friends. He loved camping and riding ATVs, not only with his children, but with his nephew and his friends children. On most weekends, he and his brother would host cookouts and work on projects together at home with friends.

In addition to time spent with his family, Mr. Burns treasured times spent deep-sea fishing with his mother and brother, listening to country music, and relaxing around a bonfire with family and friends and roasting marshmallows with the kids.

Mr. Burns is survived by three children, Jordan, Janessa and Julian Coburn, all of Attleboro; his mother, Sandra Ellen (Ebert) of Attleboro; a brother, Shawn M. of Attleboro; his companion, Emily F. Smith; a nephew and several aunts, uncles and cousins.

A funeral service will be held at 7 p.m. today at Dyer-Lake Funeral Home, North Attleboro.

Private burial will be in Newell Burying Ground, South Attleboro.

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SAN BERNARDINO: Volunteers help create home for family of five

A vacant lot, a remnant from the Old Fire in 2003 that destroyed hundreds of homes in this citys northeast corner, is being transformed into a three-bedroom, two-bath home by Habitat for Humanity of the San Bernardino area and its dedicated corps of volunteers.

The beneficiaries of this project will be Gus and Melissa Calderon and their three children, Arianna, 16, Isaac, 11, and Johnathon, 7, who along with friends and relatives are putting in 500 hours of sweat equity themselves to see the home finished.

Habitat for Humanity depends on organizations and individuals who donate their time, talent and even building supplies to help see this and other similar projects to fruition.

On Feb. 7, eight volunteers, five of them from First Evangelical Lutheran Church, in Redlands, were on hand to hammer, saw, measure and cut building materials as the 1,170 square-foot house with a two-car garage takes shape.

They continued to put the finishing touches on framing the rooms inside the house and install a thermal barrier on the roof in preparation for installation of roofing, wiring and insulation and other chores that precede putting up sheetrock and closing in the house.

First Lutheran member and Redlands resident Jeanne Fortier said this is my fifth or sixth house. Allan (Griesemer) and I worked on the roof the last time.

Normally Rick Miles, with the church, is one of the last ones in and the last one out on Habitat homes because he specializes in phone and computer wiring, but he was present this day to help with nailing wood support beams and wall stud stabilizers.

Griesemer, another Redlands resident and First Lutheran member, was the dean of the group. My work with Habitat goes back 15 or 20 years. Ive been involved in helping build six or seven houses. Ive been involved in all stages, including digging trenches.

Church member Gerri Licke drove from her Corona home hoping to either get in on drywall installation or paint. I like to paint, she said. The house hadnt progressed that far so she chipped in helping carry wood beams, holding nails for long-time volunteer Barbara Herold to hammer into the wood.

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Leicestershire (PRWEB UK) 12 February 2015

Gypsumtools has more than 50 years experience in the plastering industry. They stock a vast range of plastering equipment to suit wallets of all sizes, and on top of that, are extremely proud to be recognised as the official UK distributor for the high quality yet affordable Level 5 brand of plastering tools.

As the world tightens its belt, the news has been welcomed by professional plasterers and DIY fans alike, who can be assured that their plastering equipment doesn't need to cost the earth.

The term Level 5 comes from the plaster industry and refers to the highest level of quality for the installation and finish of plasterboard simply put, nothing short of perfect.

Level 5 Plastering Equipment lives up to this moniker with the companys determination to put value in the hands of the finisher, by providing high quality drywall tools at the fairest of prices.

Gypsumtools, as the UKs leading stockist of the Level 5 plastering equipment, has a wide range of the products in stock, including the Level 5 Pro Full Set which offers every accessory within the Level 5 range.

This set is perfect for someone looking for a lot of plastering equipment at an affordable price. It includes an automatic taper, corner roller and handle, choice of flat boxes and box handles, corner finisher and handle, corner applicator and handle, as well as a compound pump, gooseneck, nail spotter and handle.

Other great value for money sets include the Pro Finishers Set, Starter Finishing Set, Corner Finishing Set and the magnificent Level 5 Mega Bundle.

Gypsumtools operations manager, Callum Wilson, said: At Gypsumtools, we are the fastest growing online warehouse with one of the largest ranges of plastering tools to buy online today. We know plastering and we know what our customers enjoy, thats why we take pride in offering our customers the best equipment at the best prices. We are delighted to say were the UKs main stockist of the Level 5 brand, which offers an affordable high quality solution compared to other makes in our industry.

Gypsumtools, which has a trade counter in the heart of the Midlands, recently launched its online trading arm to provide plastering tools and equipment for professional plasterers and DIY enthusiasts the world over. It boasts a vast range of stock, which includes equipment from all the leading brands, as well as staff members with more than 50 years experience in the industry.

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) There are tons of home improvement projects that lend themselves to doing it yourself.

But as Angies List finds, theres one job that doesnt.

Painting and wallpapering are popular DIY home improvement projects, but they can quickly become complicated if your walls arent in good shape. For most homes, that means your drywall needs to be a flat, even canvas that will easily accept your new paint or wallpaper.

DIY projects can be a lot of fun but, honestly, drywall is a lot harder than it looks, said Angie Hicks of Angies List. Its heavy material, takes lots of tools. Its really best left to the professionals.

Even small drywall repair jobs can get messy and complicated but those jobs can be DIY-ed especially if youre handy. But finishing a basement or other room with no drywall in place or installing new drywall to repair damaged walls is another story.

The reason why its not a good DIY job is that if you dont know what you are doing its going to look pretty bad in the end product, said drywall contractor, Robert Morrison. A professional knows how to install it especially in a whole house. If you go to try to do a whole house, a whole basement, it could take you days. Professional could do a house this size in a day, him and a couple of other guys.

Hanging the drywall, which can weigh 80 pounds and generally takes a three-person crew, is just step one of a four-step process.

Next comes mudding, taping and sanding, all very detailed and necessary to provide that flat, even canvas.

For a 1214 room it will take a professional about three or four hours to hang a room that size and a few days to finish it and get it ready for paint, said drywall contractor Andy Ferguson.

For a 1214 room a DIY project, it could probably turn into two weeks, if not a month, pretty quickly, he added.

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MOSES LAKE - The windows are in at the new Boys and Girls Club, and interior insulation should be going up by the end of the week. "Things are progressing," said club Executive Director Brant Mayo, but no completion date has been announced.

The last exterior windows were going in Monday morning on the new clubhouse, located next to Park Orchard Elementary, 417 N. Paxson Dr. Electrical, plumbing and heating-cooling contractors are on site this week, with drywall installation scheduled to start next week, Mayo said.

At roughly 10,700 square feet, the building is about twice the size of the existing facility, Mayo said.

Once the drywall is in, the project moves on to installing doors and cabinets, finishing the lighting and concrete floors, installing the interior windows and interior fixtures like water fountains. Landscaping will be completed in the spring, Mayo said.

The biggest room, the game and activity room, takes up most of one side of the building. The building also includes an art room along with a space for teens, targeted at middle-school students.

There's a learning center for the homework program. A meeting room that can be rented by community groups is just off the lobby. There's also a small kitchen.

Most of the equipment going into the new building will be new too, Mayo said in an earlier interview, and the staff may have to be expanded to accommodate more kids and bigger space.

Kids at the club will have access to the computer lab at Park Orchard after school, along with the school gym and cafeteria, Mayo said. Park Orchard students will have access to the Boys and Girls Club building during the school day, when the club is closed, he said.

The club also will have access to the school's play fields, its playground, tether ball and basketball courts, and Harrison K. Dano Park next door, Mayo said. "There have been some really good partnerships," he said.

"It's going to change the organization for the better," Mayo said, offering outdoor space for kids, something that's not available at the current downtown site.

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It all started as a pile of lumber, but within the next two months, it will be someone's home.

After 16 months of work, Lenape Technical School's carpentry and environmental control students are putting the final touches on a 930-square-foot, three-bedroom modular home they built as a class project.

There are things in the classroom you can't simulate, so we decided doing is the best way of learning, teacher Rick Heltion said. We want to give our students a true-life scenario.

It is the third student-built house supervised by the school's industrial arts department.

Carpentry teacher Nathan Stairs said the students are finishing drywall installation and plan to begin painting in the next several weeks, before installing cabinetry and counters in the bathroom and kitchen.

Some of these kids working on this project have never swung a hammer in their entire life, so we're starting at the first step with a lot of them, Stairs said. I show them how to do something once and they just take off and do the rest of the work.

Before building the house, students work from plans to write up an estimate of labor and materials for each job to complete the house.

Students built the house's framing, flooring and installed electrical, heating, cooling and plumbing systems, Heltion said.

Just like a real construction company, the students must have their work inspected by licensed building inspectors. Whenever the inspector spots a problem, it's up to the students to fix it before the project continues.

Not everyone is going to leave here and become a contractor, but they will know enough to work on their own homes, Stairs said.

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