We started remodeling the room in late July. The room was
carpeted (green carpet), glued to the floor with a non drying permanent glue.
The ceiling had a white drop ceiling (what you would expect in any office
building). The walls where cinder block, painted off white and there are 4 sets
a big windows on one side of the room. (See the pictures below)
We were now tasked to turn this space into a contemporary,
edgy worship center…in 2 months. We stripped the carpet, took out the ceiling
tiles, painted the walls, painted the ceiling grid and painted the remaining
tiles silver. (See Pictures – these pics are about half way through the
project).
Some of the crazy setbacks we ran into:
The carpet glue would not dry and the carpet was completely
glued down. Ripping it out was easy (it was not easy) compared to what it took to get the glue
off of the floor. It took 2 weeks of many 12 hour days scrubbing and scraping
scrubbing and scraping cement floor. What was supposed to be a three day project took over 2
weeks before we could continue the technical install. At the end of we decided to leave the cement floor its natural state for our permanent look in the video venue.
The room has a vaulted, round ceiling (see picture in
previous post) and we had to leave half the room covered with ceiling tiles
(painted silver) so we had to paint the grid of the drop ceiling. The paint we
originally got was not mixed right and painted on black, instead of dark
chrome. However it wasn’t until 2 days of painting occurred that we realized
what was wrong. That led to reordering the paint (took over a week) and having
to repaint (took two days).
Ok, this is all I will talk about for construction but I
wanted you to get a idea of what goes into a remodel, in case you are
considering.
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