Tips & Insights

Finishing Notes

Practical notes on interior finishing work, and on knowing what a job actually involves before you book it.

Patch It or Replace It? Reading Damaged Drywall

Most wall damage is a patch. Some of it isn't, and the difference is usually visible before anyone opens the wall.

The bracket is rarely the weak point. What it's fixed into almost always is.

Most of a good paint job happens before the first coat. It is also the part that gets cut when a price looks too good.