drywall

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“I loved it when he got off work on the weekends. We would spend time either cutting grass, doing plumbing, putting on drywall, or playing music in church.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026

But the ratio is much higher in certain construction specialties, with immigrants making up around half of all drywall installers and roofers, 45% of painters, and 39% of general laborers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026

He’d been hired digging ditches, he’d been hired loading trucks, he’d been brought on for construction, drywall, yardwork.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2026

QXO was also outbid last year by Home Depot in its effort to acquire drywall distributor GMS.

From Barron's • Jan. 5, 2026

Dad finally got a job in the gypsum mine, digging out the white rocks that were ground into the powder used in drywall and plaster of paris.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls