Where's Waldo?
Written by Dan + Taken by Dan
Despite all the work we did to it, the wall along the west side of the auditorium still looked like crap. Since there was a little sheetrock left over from the auditorium encasing, we decided to slap it up on the wall and make some faux wainscoting. Here's the proof:
Step one was to rip down a superfluous column that was marring the wall between the winders (hillbilly for "windows"). I scored the column along the edges and pulled that sucker clean off!
This is what the wall looked like after the fight. Dan one, column three.
From a distance, the column looks slight and unassuming, but once you move in a little closer...
WHAMMY!!! Enough rusty nails and screws to decimate the entire Roman army! That's ate up, right there... I tell you what!
The next step was to clean all the old mortar, dirt, dust, termite poo, tourniquets, used syringes, and Taco Bell wrappers out of the terrazzo lip.
Look at that. I mean... seriously. Have you ever seen such a clean gap behind a terrazzo lip? Well. Have you?! I didn't think so.
So here it is. The wall. Ugly, isn't it?
Channeling the spirit of Bob Villa, Dad turned a plain jane 2x4x12 into a nice terrazzo cap using only his router and a trained beaver named Nibblers.
Then we put this piece of sheetrock on the wall...
Then this one...
And then this one. And that's how it's done. We'll be putting a piece of trim all along the top a little later. That's all.
