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This Week’s Featured Pulp Improvement
Pulp Deck
Pulp Deck
Mission accomplished? As you may recall this past week was all about finishing up the PVC cladding and trim on the Pulp Deck project so we could be ready to paint. And for the most part, that is what we did. You see, however, the finish process can sometimes open up a few additional needs that you may not have noticed as you were progressing through the project!
In this case, the column posts, that were not 100% square to begin with, started to show themselves a bit more with the PVC cladding applied. Places that were meant to be flush and/or even did not all end up that way, and a lot of these “finish” pieces were specialty cuts with angles as they were the “final” close-up pieces for the gaps and joints that were left with the tongue and groove ceiling install. All was expected, it’s just that once you get there, you automatically start thinking about how to make it better (and that’s exactly what happened as well)!
So, as it turns out, and with a little help from the pry bar and some shims, the PVC was able to be pried out to line up to where it needed to be (I should mention that even at 3/4” thick, the PVC planks are fairly flexible), shims added and everything tending to line up. The problem now? Well, it leaves you with some sizable gaps that need to be filled with caulk. And you can’t just go and squirt caulk in there as it needs some kind of backing to land on, so, you have to jam some more shims and parts of shims in there and well, again, it’s definitely a process!
But we are on it and it’s coming along nicely, just taking some additional time. We also had one last area that we weren’t quite sure of how to treat. It was the rear ceiling roof joists and they were pretty much flush with the T&G ceiling planks as they come in at the angle of the roof, so just throwing a piece of PVC over it was going to leave a gnarly looking front edge, again, with gaps and potentially a not so clean caulk line. What to do? One little trick we were able to come up with of late, was using the table saw to cut long run angles on the PVC to make them join up with the angles of the ceiling, the turn in the walkway path, etc. The trick there is making sure the edge is correct and that the piece you are cutting is at the proper height (or it really throws the whole thing off). Anyway, using that same principal, decided to just cut small, angled pieces (slightly over an inch in height) and putting it on as a “cap” if you will, on a flat board mounted to the wooden ceiling joists. Worked like a charm!
Since we are now striving for perfection, going to add some quarter-round pieces at most of the junction points where PVC meets ceiling. So very close!
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!
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
