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With the completion of the project now only weeks away we are working hard to meet our deadline. Things are looking pretty cool on site... the floor went in yesterday. I was doing my best to finish the ceiling in the last few days but we kept running out of ceiling tiles. I ended up nine tiles short to finish the job after we got two more boxes of tiles during the project. Today we found out the electricians were taking the tiles a few at a time, cutting holes in them and using them to mount the pot lights in the ceiling on the second floor. The funny thing is that the ceiling upstairs will use a different style tile. The electricians delivered some fresh tiles for us to finish tomorrow... The floor went in today. I look forward to seeing how it looks with the cork floor installed when we go in tomorrow...
We've been busy in the shop finishing the front desk. The robotic arms are finished and we'll finish painting the desk in place after we squeeze it through the front doors of the new building. It should be interesting as we have to go over a low planter and then swing it into the doors - twisting as we go. The desk is 12 feet long and 'L' shaped. It should be fun!
This has been one of the most challenging and fun projects we have done in a long while... and it's not over yet...
-grampa dan
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Once this project gets some publicity I can imagine the movie industry getting very interested in Dan. Here is a man with an unlimited imagination.
-------------------- Bill Riedel Riedel Sign Co., Inc. 15 Warren Street Little Ferry, N.J. 07643 billsr@riedelsignco.com Posts: 2953 | From: Little Ferry, New Jersey, USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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Very interesting project Dan, I have one question, is that ceiling curved or is that camera distortion? If it's curved, how did you get those ceiling grid rails to conform?
-------------------- Gary Boros SIGNWORKS STUDIOS LLC Monroe, Connecticut, USA Posts: 264 | From: Monroe, Connecticut, USA | Registered: Dec 2007
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The ceiling is curved or rather segmented to form a curve. the T-bar rails have a certain amount of flex in them by design and we simply took advantage of that.
When I laminated the faux beams up I put a lip on the top edge. The longer strips of T-bar between the beams are fastened to that lip. The shorter 2' sections of T-bar clip into those strips and flex just enough to form the curve.
We used a ceiling tie with a 1/4" reveal, meaning it drops down into the ceiling tile and shows each edge. What I didn't realize is that these ceiling tile only have a 3/16" lip and the T-bar is narrower than the normal ones. This means there is less margin of error allowed. For someone who doesn't normally do straight lines this was a definite challenge. That lip on the ceiling tile had to be cut into every ceiling tile around the beams and on the edges.
The real steel beams were so close and tight to mine that the T-bar grid and the tiles had to go in at the same time as I assembled the top of the arch. The pot lights and sprinklers had to be put in one row at a time before I could do the next row. Some tiles had to be painted in place others nearer to the bottom of the curve were done down and then assembled. a 1 1/4" rivet routed from precision board was glued in each corner of the tiles - about 400 rivets in all. It was a fun challenge that took better than a week - about four days longer than I had allowed for But it was worth the effort.
-grampa dan.
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
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Raymond, I thought of the same thing! I can't imagine what the "corporate shirts" think of all this fun! Dan, you are the MAN!
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