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Board, on every line that prices a surface, and the word belongs in the description. Board area is the ceiling plus the perimeter times the wall height, and it runs several times the floor number: a twelve-by-twelve bedroom with eight-foot walls holds one hundred forty-four square feet of floor and better than five hundred of board. Closets are the most commonly forgotten part of that total, and a vaulted or raised ceiling breaks the arithmetic outright, so show the takeoff room by room rather than one number for the house. Hanging is the exception, since a sheet is a fixed piece of material and prices per sheet however the room is shaped.

In bands, by the hole rather than the hour, because the size picks the method and the method carries the cost. Up to about two inches, mesh tape and mud. From there to roughly eight, a California patch: an oversized piece scored on the back with the core snapped out of the border, so an inch of face paper folds over and serves as its own tape, which is the point of the technique — it needs no backing. Past eight inches you square the hole and screw wood backing into the cavity behind it. Past a foot you cut back to the stud centers and hang a piece. Put the band and the room on the line, so ten anchor holes read as ten repairs and not one visit.

Which ceiling, how much of it, what it was left as, and what was tested. Texture sprayed in a house built before 1980 is treated as asbestos-containing until a lab says otherwise, so carry the sample date and the result on the invoice, or a line recording that the customer declined the test. Then the ceiling square footage, the containment, the skim coats it took to come flat, and which of three finishes you delivered: scraped smooth, scraped and re-textured, or encapsulated under a skim. One sentence from a customer covers all three, and they are not the same job. Where the ceiling came down under a stain, keep the stain-blocking primer separate from the texture line, since a water stain bleeds back through fresh texture.

No, because plaster prices by what is behind it and you cannot see that from the room. A crack over a doorway is mesh and a three-coat float, not tape and topping. A hole with the lath intact is one line; a hole where the lath is broken or gone is a rebuild, since the new material has nothing to grip. Plaster that moves under your hand needs re-anchoring with washers before anything is skimmed, and that gets billed apart from the crack it sits beside. Say what you patched in — plaster, veneer over blueboard, or board furred out — because lath and plaster stand proud of half-inch board, and a flush patch depends on making up that difference.