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Hope you like this one 'heads...This was one mathematical nightmare getting the bricks to line up. Here's the wall before I performed a little magic.... It's all paint and foam. Nothing was actually done to the wall but a few small post holes drilled in the mortar.
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Darn fine effects. You'll be able to point to that one for a while. How much time do you figure the install took? Did ya hear the Oooohhhs & Aaahhhs when the customer saw the finished work?
Thanks for sharing.
Wayne
------------------ Berry Signs & Stripes Hattiesburg, MS Signs, lines, lettering & other neat stuff.
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Thanks for all the compliments. I guess I should have provided a few more details though. All of the letters and the dimensional bricks are made out of EPS foam coated in two-part polyurethane(spray-on). The whole thing consists of five pieces around 4x5 feet each. CR,AN,IT,UP,!,K, and the bricks and broken wall portions surrounding them are all one large piece. If you look in the first photo you can see the CR piece on the ground. Each piece has four all-thread posts on the backs of them. The posts went into small holes in the mortar after portions of the wall were plastered and painted flat black to look like a hole. The mortar holes were filled and the whole back suface of each piece was coated with construction adhesive so it isn't coming down anytime soon. It has to hold up to Texas-size weather. As a matter of fact, I don't know how they will ever get it down. After the letters were hung I painted the real bricks in the wall to look broken along with a few other faux holes. It took around 10 hours to install and paint it into the real wall. The store was open while I was working on it and lots of people were in and out. I heard a lot more of "What in the heck are you doing?" before it turned into the Ohhhhs and Ahhhhs later in the day. It looked like a big mess when I first got started. ("My reply on works in progress is, "Don't criticize the cuisine until it is served") The store is on a five lane highway so I got a lot of horn blowing too. I don't know if they liked the sign or were just trying to knock me off the ladder.
:cool and as my 8 year old would say "way coooooool"!
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