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This Week’s Featured Pulp Improvement
Pulp Deck
Pulp Deck
As we had mentioned,, this week was all about getting busy with the finish trim install on the Pulp Deck Project, and as it turned out, that is exactly what happened!
We’d done all of our calculations and placed the order for the required 12 foot PVC trim board pieces to wrap the remaining columns, posts, soffits, etc., with delivery arriving bright and early this past Tuesday morning. The nice thing about the PVC trim boards is that they come in a few different widths that often fit perfectly (or at least pretty close) to the pieces that we are cladding, without having to rip them down to size. Case in point, the big posts for the deck roof are all 6” x 6” posts, measuring at actual 5 1/2” wide. 6” PVC boards are exactly 5 1/2” wide, nice, right? And then, the 8” PVC boards are actually 7 1/4” wide, which allows you to use them as cap pieces on two sides of the posts, all in, leaving just one side 1/4” shy of a tight wrap, which we compensate for with a thin pice of 1/4” shim board and guess what? You’ve got a nice and tight column wrap!
I should also mention that 12 foot long PVC boards are a tad inconvenient for carrying in the back of a pick-up truck that does not have an overhead rack on it (which is what we have). They extend out quite a bit, and that not being the big problem, it’s the “bounce factor”, aka, these things are extremely flexible and tend to “wave” up and down every time you hit a bump or turn a corner giving you the feeling that even with them tied down tightly, they might flip right on out of the truck! Our needs were a total of 36 PVC boards of the 4, 6, 8 and 10 inch widths. all 12 footers…..delivery choice was the way to go!
So, we are full in on the PVC trim install and fingers crossed, should be complete in the next couple days. In addition, we were able to complete the final tongue and groove bead board installs on the remaining walkway roof overhang and had enough T&G left over to install it on the face of the walkway entry from the deck side (adjacent pic attached), which looks really nice! Ended up with almost no spare T&G pieces so, knock on wood, we still have a few math skills left when it comes to measuring square footage and required amount of product!
Back out there today and hope to have finished trim pics for next week What’s next, you ask? Time to tile the outdoor kitchen cabinets and surrounding low walls, looking forward to it!
Progress pics below, see you next week!
Pulp Improvements
The 257 Project
Most Recent Pics for Sale
The 1800 Project
Yes, it has been awhile since we mentioned the 1800 Project, however, we’ve recently completed the part 2 trailer for the feature length and down the road video for the complete project. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, The 1800 Project Part Deux (the finish). Enjoy!
Nothing at All
A long time ago, in a small apartment in New York City, I was listening to a Prince song, simply called “7” and I was very much getting into the sound of the guitar playing, and what I perceived as an “open” chord strum, aka, just hitting those strings with no fingers applied (forgive me if that was mistaken). I tried to work that into something, and came up with a riff that I thought was pretty catchy. Not 100% sure what mood I was in at the time but decided that “you don’t need Nothing at All” was a good premise and ran with it. Years later, and also during the pandemic, decided it was a good time to rebuild it. Got busy with my wonderful musician friends and a new version it was.
Hope you enjoy!
Pulp Greenhouse
As we start getting back into the video making business for our projects, bringing this one back out as we do a run through our greatest hits to date! The Pulp Greenhouse really kicked off our jump into home improvement projects and gave us a great taste of all the various skills and trade work that is needed to bring these projects home. Enjoy!
The Ray Harm and Guy Coheleach Limited Edition Prints Prints
We recently mentioned that we had been gifted a fine collection of Ray Harm and Guy Coheleach “limited edition” art prints which we intend to eventually sell here from the website (will be setting up a page in our shop collection). Currently doing a complete inventory of what we have and documenting all of that. Wanted to share a little taste of what we are talking about so will feature a pic or two each week until we get that shop page up and running. This week’s sample print below!
Road-runner
