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buckofdurham said:
I guess you know when you first draw your six inch round hole for the renovation light. Drill or poke a small hole in the center. Make a L shape out of a piece of wire, with the small part of the L about 3 1/2 inch. Insert the small part in the center hole then turn. This way at least you wont hit a beam on your light hole cuts.
I love to see them recessed speakers they make great access.
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I do the same thing with an offset rotary type screwdriver.

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macmikeman said:
Do they not spray texture much in your area? Matching sprayed texture is out of my personal league.
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Know any one who's league it is in - maybe they need some work.... :wink:

I used to have a rocker/painter/faux finisher follow me around for a while until he had personal issues take his life over.... Other than that it worked well for the both of us.

Flex bits can easily make a small job a big repair IMO. Too bad you can't train rats to do it.....
 
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Do they not spray texture much in your area?
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Typically we only do a rough patch. Finish patch and paint is excluded.

MOST of the time there is other renovation going on and their drywall/paint guy takes care of it. If not we give them the name of someone who will make it pretty again.

Ocaisionally, if it's a small patch I will do my best to finish it.
 
e57 said:
Know any one who's league it is in - maybe they need some work.... :wink:

I used to have a rocker/painter/faux finisher follow me around for a while until he had personal issues take his life over.... Other than that it worked well for the both of us.

Flex bits can easily make a small job a big repair IMO. Too bad you can't train rats to do it.....
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We have customers tell us they call to have patch work done and everyone wanted from $200 to $275, for a small patch, were in the wrong business.
 
satcom said:
We have customers tell us they call to have patch work done and everyone wanted from $200 to $275, for a small patch, were in the wrong business.
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We're not in the wrong business. We just don't place a high enough value on our services and charge enough. :)

Electricians would go out and do this for an $80 service call or for free in hopes of getting more work in the future.

If every electrician charged $200 for a service call I believe people would pay it just like they pay over $3 a gallon for gas.
 
Almost everywhere around here the ceilings are "strapped" or "furred". So you can fish across an entire ceiling generally without obstruction.
 
j_erickson said:
Almost everywhere around here the ceilings are "strapped" or "furred". So you can fish across an entire ceiling generally without obstruction.
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That's awesome. We hardly ever run into that here. That's usually a framing detail reserved for blueboard jobs, from what I've seen.
 
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