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| First tile is complete |
Last week was a fast week, with the Thanksgiving holiday squished in the middle. Monday began a 3 day adventure of printing and installing a 36' wall mural. This is an 8' x 36' graphic installed in Clifton Park Center which shows the layout for the newly begun renovations (the addition of a hotel on top of the mall...yes, you read that correctly... and the new cinema). As you may have noticed, the renovations have already begun over there!
The material used for the job is an actual wall graphic material (Seramark) (same concept as the "Fatheads") and is removable without leaving residue behind. After finalizing the graphics and size, Steve set the job up for printing...a total of 9 tiles (4' wide by 8' long each) and we spent Monday watching the printer. Once each tile was printed it was trimmed, wrapped and set aside ready for the next step...the big install!
Tuesday morning, we met with DCG and determined the final placement of the prints. The wall was measured, lines drawn out and Steve & Michele began. Laying the initial tile, they lined up the top and bottom to be straight with the floor & ceiling and taped the graphic to the wall. Removing a portion of the top of the graphic from the backing, they carefully squeegeed the print to the wall. From there, it was easy to proceed downward with the rest of the graphic.
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| Michele squeegees the first tile |
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| First tile is almost finished |
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| Almost complete (Thank you Santa's Helpers!) |
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When the first tile was down, the second tile was overlapped onto the first, lining everything up top to bottom. The same procedure was followed, removing a a portion of the print from the backing and squeegeeing it to the wall. I had the "brilliant" idea of these awesome Elf Ears...and Michele & Steve were good sports about wearing them for some pictures. I do believe they received some compliments from mall shoppers too! (Oh, and don't worry, I made sure they found their way to Facebook!)
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| This is it...the big moment! |
Thirty six feet later, the wall graphic was completely installed and I had to check it over (Yes I did sit there taking pictures and sipping coffee throughout most of the install...tough job, but somebody had to do it!) Overall, the installation took approximately 3 hours and with two sets of hands, and a great supervisor (if I may so so myself...) things went quite smooth!
The following day, we added the wall graphic prints referring to gift cards purchases. What a week and an awesome project! If you are ever in Clifton Park Center, take a look at the wall and the beautiful expansion project DCG has going on.
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