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How to get your drywall retainage back in Texas

Track retainage on every job, send the Texas retainage notice within 30 days of finishing your work, and bill it with a clean closeout package. Lien affidavit deadline and a worked example.

How to fill out a drywall pay application in Texas

A drywall pay app is your schedule of values: work done and stored to date, minus retainage and prior payments, sent by the cutoff with a conditional lien waiver. Worked example and Texas prompt-pay dates.

How to write a drywall change order the GC will actually sign

A drywall change order gets signed when it is short, priced, tied to the original job and sent before the extra work starts. Here is the format, the wording and the follow-up.

Texas lien deadlines for subcontractors, in plain English

Texas drywall subs must send a notice of claim by the 15th of the 2nd month (residential) or 3rd month (commercial) after the unpaid work, then file the lien affidavit a month later. Free deadline calculator.

Bid follow-up email scripts that win drywall jobs

Copy-paste follow-up emails for drywall bids: when to send each one, what to say, and how to ask why you lost. Includes a short text version and a Spanish version.