Welcome to Walls & Ceilings’ Tools & Equipment to the Industry, a showcase of product availability from companies catering to contractors in North America. The information was company-supplied. For more information on suppliers, manufacturers and distributors, visit W&C’s 2011/2012 Industry Blue Book online at wconline.com/bluebook.
Wall and ceiling contractors are fix-up specialists. If they are first on the job site, their walls get punched full of holes as one by one the electricians, plumbers and other trades arrive and make fresh penetrations.
From the outside, the newly opened New World Center, the campus of the elite New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Fla., may not appear to be a celebration of curves.
The goal of every professional finisher is to maximize finish quality and board feet while minimizing effort and eliminating callbacks. Fortunately, there are dozens of tricks, shortcuts and trade secrets that have been developed by Ames Taping Tools over the company’s 70-year history.
Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana in the last days of August 2005, carving a gouge into the Gulf Coast which, nearly six years on, still hasn’t been healed. Thousands of New Orleans residents are still living in Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers both inside and outside the state
Not all television is created equal. There are reality shows centered around human degradation where people lie, cheat, steal and eat disgusting things for the honor of being the last one standing.
United States demand for molding and trim is forecast to exceed $10 billion in 2014 on annual increases of 10.0 percent. An expected rebound in new residential construction expenditures from their depressed 2009 level will fuel these gains.
There are many types of ceiling hangers used on today’s construction projects, including powder-actuated fastening systems, post-installed concrete anchors and eye lag screws. Other hanger types may consist of wires alone without pre-mounted fasteners, anchors or ceiling clips.
It’s been a couple of years since Walls & Ceilings featured the latest in drywall innovations and according to our online data, profiles of the latest in products and accessories for this market continue to be popular. The magazine submitted a call of entries to manufacturers and distributors of its drywall line and the response was overwhelming.