She's kind of a cross between your grandma and an Army drill sergeant.

Shelia Garrett, the lead cashier at Ace Hardware on Rosedale Highway, is in her 16th year at the family-owned store. But this year she's starting to earn a reputation as "The Mean Mask Lady" for her straightforward,no-nonsense approach to customers who feel the need to challenge the store's requirement that masks must be worn inside.

"Shelia's not really mean," said assistant manager Donald Johnson. "She's just the first one customers see when they come in."

Indeed, Garrett is often working the cash register right inside the front door. And when someone comes in without a mask, she's no shrinking violet.

"I will say something," she said.

And word has been getting around. Garrett has become something of a local celebrity for her uncanny ability to make grown men feel like they're in trouble with their third-grade teacher.

What's a macho, drywall-installing, red-blooded American male supposed to do when this grandmotherly type lays down the law?

There's only one thing to do, unless he doesn't mind coming off like a real jerk.

Garrett can laugh about it, but she says this has been her toughest year yet in retail.

The big chalkboard outside is clear: "Masks are required," it says.

But apparently it's not that simple.

Every employee at the store wears a mask for eight or nine hours a day (apparently without suffering oxygen depravation), yet some customers act like wearing a mask for a few minutes in the store isa major inconvenience.

And the employees have heard it all.

"Its against my religion."

"I have a medical condition."

"I vowed I would never wear a mask, and Im not going to start now."

"I might be mistaken for a robber."

And being sworn at. Yes, it's a thing.

It's even gotten physical, Johnson said.

According to multiple news reports, a Target employee in Van Nuys was injured after helping to remove two customers who refused to wear masks.

In Pennsylvania, a convenience store clerk was punched in the face after declining service to a man without a mask.

And there's been much worse.

"I've been here a long time," Garrett said. "Most customers are good about it."

It only takes one or two to ruin your day.

On Friday, Gilbert Beal was shopping at Ace with his 5-year-old son, Liam. Both father and son were wearing masks.

"The way I understand it, wearing a mask doesn't protect us, it protects those around us," said the Marine veteran turned law enforcement officer.

"It's gotten to the point some people are getting out of hand," he said. "Put a mask on. Be courteous to others."

Whatever Garrett and her co-workers are doing seems to be working. Compliance for the mask requirement is virtually 100 percent at Ace.

Down the street at the big-box Lowe's Home Improvement store, mask compliance was only about 40 percent on Thursday afternoon. Even some employees weren't wearing a mask.

Customer Roslyn Atherly, however, was masked up as she exited the store.

"I am concerned," she said as she stopped to talk.

After seeing so many customers without masks, even as the county of Kern is seeing an increase in reported COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, Atherly said the community's behavior is worrisome.

"You don't have to have symptoms to pass on the infection," she said.

These are strange times. But Garrett seems to have a knack for enforcing a requirement that not everyone cares to abide by. And she does it with class.

She's not afraid to give customers the business even as they're giving the store theirs.

Steven Mayer can be reached at 661-395-7353. Follow him on Facebook and on Twitter: @semayerTBC.

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A: When the wall is removed, it will be replaced with a horizontal beam, which will be supported at each end by a vertical post. These posts carry the concentrated load of all the ceiling and roof weight. This project definitely requires permitting. The permit will dictate that a construction engineer ensure that the replacement posts and beam are sufficient to hold the weight that is being displaced by the removal of the wall.

Q: What are the steps in the removal of the wall?

A: The right way to remove the wall involves prep work, creating a footing and installing the posts and beam.

Whether the beam is exposed is a matter of preference. Some homeowners like the look of the exposed wood. It does cost a bit more to recess the beam.

If the beam is exposed, it is attached to the bottom of the joists. This beam will be exposed when the drywall is replaced. It can be stained or painted to accent the room. If it is preferred that the beam is hidden, the ceiling joist will be cut just enough to slip the beam up so that it will be flush with the ceiling. Ceiling joists must be anchored to beams with appropriate hardware.

Q: What is involved after the beam is installed?

A: Heres a checklist for finishing the job:

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For something so small, tiny houses are tough to ignore. There are more than a dozen tiny-house TV shows on cable and streaming, and entire tiny-house communities are popping up in California, Texas, Florida and beyond. Its kind of a big deal.

Two years ago, Tim Maron heard a story on NPR about tiny-house communities in the South. Around that same time, the then-Life Scout from Pennsylvania happened to be brainstorming ideas for his Eagle Scout service project.

Thethought occurred to me that I could create a tiny house in my area for someone in need, just as they had in the South, he says.

But he didnt want to build a house for just anyone. Tim, who has grandfathers, uncles, and cousins who served in the military, wanted to build a tiny house for a veteran.

Veterans served our country and were willing to give the ultimate sacrifice, only to return home to homelessness or poverty, he says. I felt the house should be created to give back to the veteran community.

After raising $55,000 and working tirelessly to lead a team of fellow Scouts, adult volunteers and professional contractors, the house was completed in 2019. Rich Kisner, executive director of project beneficiary Community Strategies Group, told WNEP-TV that he had worked on housing projects before but had never experienced anything like this.

He did all the work, Kisner says of Tim, who was 17 when the project was completed. It was really rewarding to be a part of to see a young Scout like this take the initiative.

For building a home from scratch for a Pennsylvania veteran, the Eagle Scout from Troop 300 of Hobbie, Pa. (Columbia-Montour Council), received the 2020 Glenn A. and Melinda W. Adams Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award for the Northeast Region.

The 2020 Adams awards, detailed at the end of this post, recognize outstanding Eagle projects completed by young people who earned Eagle in 2019.

After brainstorming potential Eagle Scout projects, Tim narrowed his list to two ideas: revitalize the public-address system at his high school stadium or build a tiny house for a veteran.

As Eagle projects go, that second option wasnt going to be easy. Tim had to find a location, secure a zoning change, hire an architect and a contractor, figure out a budget and recruit volunteers.

And then there was the small matter of money. Tim needed to raise more than $55,000 to build the 550-square-foot home.

The response from the community was very positive, he says. Many companies and organizations donated to the project some of them found me instead of me going to them first. The project really brought out the best in the surrounding community.

Donations came pouring in $10, $50, $100 or more at a time. But still, Tim wasnt near the $55,000 he needed. He started a GoFundMe page, applied for grants (most of which were denied, he says) and presented at local veterans organizations to ask for money.

I was struggling, he says. The breakthrough came when I received a notification that I had received a grant from Wells Fargo.

The Wells Fargo Foundations VeteranWINS program, which provides grants to address veteran homelessness, agreed to donate $45,000 to Tims effort.

Building a house takes a lot of paperwork permits, applications, something called a letter of nonconformity. And this was while Tim was still in high school, where a mix of studying, writing papers and participating in extracurriculars kept him plenty busy.

I was surprised at how long it actually took, he says. The process may have been slowed down due to me being in school and afterschool activities, but it was still very lengthy.

But things really picked up once all the Is were dotted and Ts crossed. The house began taking shape, all under Tims direction. Like any good leader, he assembled a great team and let the experts do their jobs.

Being the leader of the project was a challenge, Tim says, but it was made easier through the delegation of work to others, as well as the advice from adult peers that had been through the process before.

Tims team included Scouts, Scout leaders, volunteers from the community, volunteers from Wells Fargo, contractors and sub-contractors. Thats a lot of moving parts, but under Tims leadership, all of these different groups worked together smoothly. Once the process began, momentum carried it forward quickly.

The amount of time it took to construct the house compared to getting ready for the construction surprised me, he says. I learned a great amount about constructing a house and what the process is like, from laying the block, creating the base, framing the house, installing drywall, doing the electrical, painting and all the finishing touches.

Building a house seems like a herculean effort, and it is. But Tim encourages younger Scouts considering Eagle project ideas to dream big.

No matter how large of a project they may be attempting to complete, if they set their mind to it and dedicate themselves to completing the project, they will be able to achieve their goal, he says. As long as they do not give up and keep working, they can achieve their goal.

But whatever the projects scope, it should have some sort of personal significance, Tim says. Then all that work feels a little less like work.

Pick a project for a not-for-profit that means something to you, he says. This will make doing your project more enjoyable and raise the anticipation to see the project completed.

This post is one of a quartet of articles recognizing four outstanding Eagle projects by Class of 2019 Eagle Scouts.

Each project covered in these posts received theGlenn A. and Melinda W. Adams Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award.

The award process begins at the council level, where each council can nominate one outstanding project to the National Eagle Scout Association. From there, one project from each BSA region Central, Northeast, Western and Southern is selected to receive the Adams award.

Regional recipients get $500 each for future educational purposes or to attend a national or international Scouting event or facility. Their councils also get $500 apiece.

Next, a special selection committee of the National Eagle Scout Association selects a national winner from among those four recipients. The national recipient gets $2,500 for future educational purposes or to attend a national or international Scouting event or facility. Their council gets $2,500, too.

2020 Glenn A. and Melinda W. Adams Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award recipients

Aaron Derr and Gina Circelli from Boys Life magazinewill interview each of these recipients live on Facebook. Check out the schedule below. Cant watch live? The interviews will live forever on theBoys LifeFacebook page so you can see what you missed.

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Nearly three years ago two long-time members of the Goderich Art Club had an aha moment.

Madeleine Roske and Nancy Marchl realized that their long membership in the club provided them with memories and insights that were increasingly rare amongst the current club membership.

As Roske and Marchl thought about this fact, they realized that unless someone took on the task memories of the clubs history and of its founding members would be lost.

Roske and Marchl soon embarked on their research interviewing, collecting photos, and memories, and writing.

What has emerged from this work is a book filled with memories and photos of the Goderich Art Club and its members from 1952 until present day.

As they began this project they were fortunate to have been able to meet with both Paul Carroll and Jean Culbert, both of whom were life-long members who had kept photos and had memories, which they generously shared.

Paul Carroll had become a member when he was a teenager, and related how helpful those early members were in the development of his own life-long interest in art.

Now, some might think that they have no interest in art, or that they dont know any of the members, so this book would be of no interest to you. Yet, think again, because paralleling the history of the art club is a history of post World War II South Western Ontario.

This was an era of can-do people suffered great losses, had to ration, experienced lots of worry, and absorbed harsh news on a daily basis during the war years.

Now in the 1950s they had emerged into modern times. Colour, leisure, new ideas, and recreational pursuits were now seen as important and popular.

Artistic endeavours such as painting, drawing, and fancy needlework, rather than rationing of supplies, blackouts, and knitting or sewing for the war effort, had become very au courant.

Suddenly art supplies and vibrant new paint colours were readily available, and people were eager to try things they had not had the time or resources to do during many years of privation.

Now in an era of prosperity, modernity, and newly found leisure, artistic pursuits would have fit right in.

On first reading it seemed simply astonishing that a group from a small town would simply pick up the phone to ask a well known artist, who at that time was Curator of the London Art Gallery, to come to town to help them establish an art club. Yet, thats exactly what they did.

Mrs. Iona Hind called Mr. Clare Bice, Curator of the London Art Gallery, a highly respected Canadian artist who has paintings in the National Gallery of Art in Ottawa. He was asked to come and help them with the founding of the club.

Subsequently, three lectures on How to Paint Pictures were arranged, and soon, Mr. Selwyn Dewdney, Mr. Simon Versteeg, and Mr. Herb Ariss were all enlisted to provide theses first lectures. These talented London artists were paid $15.00 each, plus expenses for their foundational instruction, and the Goderich Art Club was up and running.

The club has existed ever since, in many different formats and in many different homes. It has now settled permanently at the McKay Centre for Seniors.

However, just because the club meets there, doesnt mean that membership is restricted to seniors, which is definitely not the intent.

Currently, members paint together on Wednesday afternoons, and Saturday mornings. Art Club members hold a popular annual Show and Sale during Celtic weekend, and frequently offer lessons and demonstrations of particular painting techniques. Information on how to join is available by calling the McKay Centre, or dropping in for a visit during regular painting sessions. All who are interested will be welcomed, and, probably invited to stay for a cup of tea and a cookie as they visit.

Some may think they have no interest in art, but they just might discover that their parents, or grandparents, aunts, or uncles have had some involvement with the Goderich Art Club over its long and varied history.

The history of the Art Club is also a history of Goderich, from the 1950s to the present, which is of interest to everyone.

Roske and Marchl have included photos, memories and anecdotes, and with the skilled assistance of Rhea Hamilton-Seeger have organized it into a fascinating look-back at Goderich, its citizens, and art in the community.

You can get your own copy of this book at Finchers, and Elizabeths Art Gallery, or by contacting Madeleine Roske.

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The University of Toronto(U of T) made waves in the local architecture worldwhen in Spring, 2018 their plan to build the tallest mass timber and concrete hybrid building in North America was announced. More details emerged in September, 2018, when the U of T submitted their plans to the City, seeking rezoning to permit the proposed 14-storey, timber-frame Academic Wood Towerabove the north end of the recently constructed Goldring Centre for High Performance Sport.

Looking northwest to Academic Wood Tower, image via submission to City of Toronto

Designed byPatkau Architectsof Vancouver andMacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects(MJMA) of Toronto, the project's initial design evolved with an April, 2019 resubmission for zoning which addressed concerns raised by City staff to details of the 2018 submission. Revisions were made to some ofthe building's internal componentsand elements of the projects crystalline massing and building envelope.

Looking southwest to Academic Wood Tower, image via submission to City of Toronto

The plan has since advanced again, with a May, 2020 application now seeking Site Plan Approval (SPA) including a number of minor revisions and clarifications.Again, there are changes that addresscomments received from City staff to the previous submission, while also seeking to clear conditions to have the plan proceed to City Council for approval.

Looking south to Academic Wood Tower, image via submission to City of Toronto

Clarifications concerning the tower's exterior cladding are included in the revised application, specifying that it is proposed with aglass fibre-reinforced concrete panel or cement board panel system in a custom colour in a warm tonal range. This durable materialwith a natural texture formed during the fabrication processis to be installed in a board-like format with large reveals, to evoke a wood-like finish that ties in with the timber themes.

Looking west to Academic Wood Tower, image via submission to City of Toronto

Additional information and images can be found in our Database file for the project, linked below. Want to get involved in the discussion? Check out the associated Forum thread, or leave a comment below.

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No one thinks accidents can happen when they bring an expensive piece of furniture into the room, but kids are killed every year from tip overs.

Furniture tip-overs are some of the often-ignored hidden hazards to children. There have been tragic stories of dressers falling on children, and companies have been sued for not including warning labels or installing tip-over restraints on their furniture.

Parents, responsible adults, and manufacturers are all responsible for preventing tip-overs to reduce accidents around the home. Furniture in each room should be secured, regardless of whether some tip more easily than others.

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No one thinks accidents can happen when they bring the expensive piece into the room. The general feeling is that tip-overs happen with cheap furniture but such thoughts are ill-informed and should not be put above safety.

It is not about sleek furniture or chastising kids correctly. Older and younger kids can get hurt, as they try to stand on the drawers to get something or just to experiment. Tip-overs can happen anywhere, anytime, and to any person. At home, in school, at the stores or in a meeting place, even to grownups and to the elderly.

Here is the thing, set up tip-over restraints or get furniture with restraints and everybody wins.

It is important to set up furniture anchors on every piece of furniture, and do not assume that the dresser is too heavy to tip over. Fit your drawers, desks, cabinets, tables, armoires, TV stands, and nightstands with anchors, because ALL furniture and ALL Televisions have the potential to tip over.

Select A Tip-Over Restraint

The first step is to choose a suitable wall anchors to hold your furniture in place. Depending on how wide or tall your furniture is, you can install the anchors horizontally or vertically.

Also, choose mounting hardware that can support the highest number of pounds, as well as one that is flexible enough to make the kit easy to mount. Some manufacturers include kits in their furniture, but you should check to ensure that the restraints are made of steel cable or nylon webbing.

Anchoring Your Wall

What type of wall do you have? Drywall, masonry wall or plaster wall?

Drywall and plaster walls are common and do not need professional help, but masonry walls may require you to hire a repair person to secure your furniture to the brick or concrete wall.

Steps:

* Mark your mounting point on the wall with a pencil and make sure it lines up with the back of your furniture.

* Follow the installation instructions to measure vertically and determine the appropriate location for the wall bracket.

* For plaster walls, drill holes into the wall, but do not make the hole wider than the tip-over restraint. If you have drywall, trace a stud in the wall using a stud finder.

* Once you find the stud, use drywall screws to secure the anchor into the stud directly. For plaster walls, fix the anchor over the drilled holes, tapping it firmly until it goes in all the way.

* Proceed with connecting the wall and the furniture to the anchor.

It is important to consider the type of wall you have because different walls need different tip-over restraints. Likewise, it is important to remember that a tip-over restraint needs to withstand any force that tries to pull the furniture straight out from the wall.

Installing Brackets To Your Furniture

When putting the bracket:

* Go up as high as you can on the furniture, and secure the anchor to a thick piece of wood.

* Do not attach the restraint to the thin part of the furniture that can easily come off under heavy pressure.

* Mark your piece of furniture at the part where you will put the bracket and make a hole in it.

* Fix the bracket to the furnishing using wood screws and connect your furniture to your wall, connecting the mounting brackets on the wall and furniture with a strap or a cable

Once you have secured your tip-over restraint to your wall and furniture, patch up the holes on your wall to prevent wall damage. For drywall or plaster, brush away debris around the hole before filling the holes with a paste. Masonry walls will need concrete hole fillers that match the shade of the brick or concrete.

After filling up the holes, touch your wall up with paint to complete the process.

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A former employee for a company that produces prefabricated homes is suing the company, alleging he was fired in retaliation for removing a tracking device placed in a tool case that allowed his boss to keep tabs on his whereabouts on and off duty.

Octavio Reynoso's Los Angeles Superior Court lawsuit against Connect Homes, located in downtown Los Angeles, alleges wrongful termination, invasion of privacy, common law intrusion into private affairs or matters and unfair business practices. He seeks unspecified damages in the suit filed Friday.

A Connect Homes representative did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

Reynoso began working for Connect Homes last June and his duties included installing drywall and performing roofing, electrical and plumbing tasks at construction sites, the suit states. His supervisor ordered Reynoso to report to specific jobs throughout Southern California, the suit states.

The company paid for Reynoso's hotel lodgings during lengthy projects far from his home, the suit states. Management decided when Reynoso could take breaks and where he would work, and he used a cellphone app to clock-in and clock-out, the suit states.

The cellphone app enabled the company to verify that he was at his scheduled job, the suit states.By last August Reynoso had worked on six Connect projects and received a positive job evaluation, the suit states. However, in January of thisyear, "things took a turn for the worse" when his boss gave Reynoso a case containing several tools even though the plaintiff typically used his own tools and he had limited room in his truck, the suit states.

Reynoso grew suspicious when management demanded he return the case at the end of each work week, the suit states. But the plaintiff "felt afraidto initiate a detailed conversation about the case" with his supervisor because of the boss' "history of angry outbursts'' and because Reynoso valued his job, the suit states.

In early February, Reynoso's boss ordered him to report to a job in Culver City and ordered him to keep the case in his truck, the suit states.

On the first night of the job, Reynoso drove in his personal truck to the hotel where he stayed and brought the case up to his room, where he opened it and noticed it had "a discreet cavity filled with packing foam," the suit states.

Reynoso pulled out some of the foam and found a small rectangular device about the size of a flip phone with the letters "GPS," the suit states. The device had small glowing lights indicating it was turned-on and on the back of it was the logo, "Spytec," the suit states.

"Mr. Reynoso felt shocked," the suit states. "He realized that for the past three weeks, (his boss) had been monitoring Mr. Reynoso's whereabouts, including during evenings when Mr. Reynoso was not working."

The device allowed Reynoso's supervisor to know where he went on his free time and how long he stayed at non-work related places, including his relatives' homes, the suit alleges.

Reynoso feared that discussing the device with his boss would anger him, remembering how many times the supervisor lost his temper and yelled at him and his co-workers, the suit states.

"Mr. Reynoso felt desperate, so he soon after placed the (device) in a cabinet at the jobsite so that (his boss) could not track," the suit states, but the next day Reynoso saw that it was removed from the cabinet, the suit states.

In February, Reynoso's boss met with him and another worker to discuss their next job, the suit states. During the entire conversation, Reynoso felt "on edge" and at the end he stared at the plaintiff and said, "I like to have all of my tools tracked. I like to know where they are at all times," the suit states.

Reynoso interpreted the boss' use of the term "tools" mean his employees, the suit states.

About a week later, Reynoso felt so stressed and concerned about possible further surveillance that he believed he had no choice other than to quit, according to the suit.

Reynoso gave the company two weeks notice of his intention to quit, but before that period ended he and other members of his construction team were fired, the suit states.

Reynoso believes that because other employees not on his team kept their jobs, his firing was in retaliation for having removed the monitoringdevice from the case, the suit states.

Reynoso found a similar construction job about a month later, but it pays him a lower hourly rate and does not pay him a daily rate as Connect had, the suit states.

"As a result, Mr. Reynoso has struggled to support himself and his family," according to the suit.

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My mother has, for years, expressed her opinion that one day I will be famous. My wife as well has asserted that she expects people across the world to know me. But being, in my view, a no one from nowhere, I have merely brushed those lofty expectations aside as the rose-colored- glasses view of the people who love me. So when fame finally came, it was as much of a shock to me as to anyone.

Hey, is this your nose?

That message was a bit disconcerting. I cast about in my mind trying to figure out what my good friend could possibly be talking about, and then I saw the picture he attached.

It was indeed my nose.

Perhaps a bit of a backdrop is needed for you to fully grasp the hilarity and oddity of my Mike Wazowski Im on the cover of a magazine! type moment.

In the five years we have lived at our house, I have repaired many of the things that were destroyed by vandals as it sat vacant for many months before we bought it. But I had not yet gotten around to fixing all of the destroyed drywall in the garage. A few weeks ago, I finally turned my attention to that loathsome task. I rehung, repaired, re-taped, and mudded everything. Finally, it was sanding day, and for five hours, I sanded like a madman.

In order to keep from choking to death, I wore a dust mask. When I finally finished and came upstairs, I gasped at the deathly sight I saw in the mirror. I looked absolutely horrible, enough so to make me laugh hysterically.

If I take selfies, those kind of pictures are usually what you will see from me. So I snapped a picture, captioned it If you are looking for a radical transformation, may I recommend five hours of sanding drywall? and put it online.

A Facebook friend saw it, cut it down to just my nose and mouth, and noted that the mask had not protected me against drywall dust, and would not be effective at protecting against covid-19 either.

Please pay attention: this column is not about masks or covid-19. If you want to debate that issue, your debate is not with me. The only thing I unwittingly contributed to the situation was my nose, complete with nostril hairs coated in white dust. My point in writing this is that, within 24 hours, I was getting messages literally from across the country saying things like Your nose went viral! and Hey, is this you? It looks like you!

My Mike Wazowski moment. I have preached in fourteen different countries, written weekly newspaper columns (complete with my entire face on the profile picture) for nearly ten years, authored multiple books, been interviewed on the news, and it is my nose that is finally making the rounds from coast to coast.

Fame is such a weird, fickle thing.

Nearly 2000 years ago, Peter penned these words. 1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away.

Mankind has always had within himself the desire for glory, fame, despite the fact that, as Peter said, all of that glory quickly fades away and disappears. Living life seeking after it, therefore, is the height of wastefulness. And yet, people fight to get in front of the news cameras, clamor to have their picture taken with celebrities, and literally have their day made or ruined by how many or few likes a post or picture gets.

Live your days to honor God and be productive, and let neither fame nor anonymity be a factor or a goal. 1 Corinthians 10:31 says, Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. Any life lived for our glory will be disappointing to God and will leave us hollow rather than fulfilled.

That is something that we all need to nose.

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Building Finishing Contractors market includes drywall and insulation contractors, painting and wall covering contractors, flooring contractors, tile and terrazzo contractors, finish carpentry contractors and other building finishing contractors.

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Building Finishing Contractors market status and outlook of Global and major regions, from angles of players, countries, product types and end industries; this report analyzes the top players in global market, and splits the Building Finishing Contractors market by product type and applications/end industries.

Building Finishing Contractors are increasingly using digital technologies such as smart phones, RFID tagging and software to improve labor productivity, safety and cost control. Mobile phones help workers to share information on jobsites and file reports about the building progress. RFID tagging is used for material handling and to track field personnel. For example, MaxCon Software is specifically designed for roofing contractors. Mobile apps such as Red-Trac, Labor Sync and Timesheet Mobile provide construction-specific services to contractors.

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Report Covers Market Segment by Manufacturers: APi Performance Contracting Cleveland Construction Irex Corp Of Lancaster

The Building Finishing Contractors report focuses on the Building Finishing Contractors in Global market, especially in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, South America, Middle East and Africa. This report categorizes the market based on manufacturers, regions, type and application.

Market Segment by Type, covers: Drywall And Insulation Contractors Painting And Wall Covering Contractors Flooring Contractors Tile And Terrazzo Contractors Finish Carpentry Contractors Others

Market Segment by Applications, can be divided into: Utilities Commercial Residential

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There are 15 Chapters to deeply display the global Building Finishing Contractors market.Chapter 1: Describe Building Finishing Contractors Introduction, product scope, market overview, market opportunities, market risk, market driving force.Chapter 2: Analyze the top manufacturers of Building Finishing Contractors, with sales, revenue, and price of Building Finishing Contractors, in 2015 and 2017.Chapter 3: Display the competitive situation among the top manufacturers, with sales, revenue and market share in 2015 and 2017.Chapter 4: Show the global market by regions, with sales, revenue and market share of Building Finishing Contractors, for each region, from 2011 to 2017.Chapter 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9: Analyze and talked about the key regions, with sales, revenue and market share by key countries in these regions.Chapter 10 and 11: Show the market by type and application, with sales market share and growth rate by type, application, from 2011 to 2017.Chapter 12: In Chapter Eleven Building Finishing Contractors market forecast, by regions, type and application, with sales and revenue, from 2017 to 2022.Chapter 13, 14 and 15: Describe Building Finishing Contractors sales channel, distributors, traders, dealers, appendix and data source.

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