Contruction Questions

WALLS

I understand the desire the cover up the exposed beams for the walls, but let's say fabric is bought, what's the proposed method for attachment? You'd have to buy fabric with the correct dimensions to stretch around the frames, or find some way to create attractive seam lines and/or drapery. - Drywall is scheduled to begin tomorrow morning so when would the fabric be attached, before or after? If after, the beams at the 4' height will be covered with drywall. Even with fabric pulled taught, at a width of 8' there will be sagging in the center if it isn't attached at some center point. Is the fabric being folded under and then attached? No cheap fabric is going to create a cut/tear line clean enough to be left exposed.

PEDESTALS

Okay - I'm for the lumber pedestals and the molding. The problem is having construction space for a long enough amount of time to finish construction and having an adequate amount of people willing to show up to work on them. Not everyone can drywall at the same time in the downtown space, so # of people shouldn't be an issue.
== If we go with the cinder blocks (correct me if I'm wrong) it's 10 blocks per pedestal. The dimensions of each block are 8x8x16, so two columns of cinder blocks will give us a 16x16 square display surface. Stack four blocks for 32"H and five for 40"H. 16x18" surfaces will create a two inch gap between blocks and 16x20" will create a 4" gap. The dimensions for pedestals could still be 18x18" and 20x20" if we're cool with both an overhand of the MDF and a gap between the blocks. Ten blocks per pedestal, with 12 pedestals gives a total of 120 blocks. 120 blocks at 1.25 each? Approximately $150. Say we get the $$ - how many people are actually willing to help transport 120 blocks to the downtown site AND haul them back after the show to return them? == Construction for drywall starts tomorrow and we're currently divided on the pedestal issue.

PAINT

We've been redesigning walls and pedestals after checking the budget to see our options, but if we're painting everything to match the wall color at the downtown space we need an actual quote on (5 gallons?) of custom color paint before we redesign anything else or reassign any portion of our budget.

Great News!

Theo talked to Mark Price this morning about money available to us as a class. We were entitled to $300 but he gave us approval for $500! This money has to be spent at Home Depot and all in one purchase, so we will need a thorough price/supply list first, so let's get on it. i would have posted this under the construction thread but i wanted to be sure everyone saw it.
by the way mike and i posted a proposal for wall layout & design. i didn't make it to scale it turns out so i'm reworking it now and will post in a little bit with images

We Need Moneyz

I'm collecting moneyz for our expenses. We've generally agreed on $40 for now per person. So far I've received moneyz from Mike and David. I will keep an updated list. You can get it to me in several ways.

1. I'll take cash or check in person. You will usually be able to find me on campus in the sculpture studio, although probably not today (Thursday). Make checks out to me and in the memo just write UCF BFA. If you so desire you can also deliver it to me at my house, just mapquest my address. 2706 Logandale Drive, Orlando, FL 32817.
2. You can mail it to me, although we need funds soon so I wouldn't recommend this since there is a few days delay.
3. You can pay by paypal if you already have a verified account. All you have to do is login, click on send moneyz and send it to my email at ethan_kalebaugh@hotmail.com.
4. I can't think of any other ways but if you get creative feel free to suggest something.

We need moneyz asap so that we can get materials bought and advertisements ordered. We're aiming to get the printing process started by Friday.

Let's Make a Budget!

I'll go ahead and head up the budget and finances, as I volunteered to do. I'm not sure I know where to begin though. I guess I need to know how much everyone is willing to pitch in to the general fund and go from there. I will try and come up with expenses and then see if you're willing to either split it out for that cost or if you want to suggest cuts to it. It would be really helpful if someone on the promo team could give me a cost estimate of how much materials and printing are going to cost us. In fact, the same is true for whoever is heading up the installation team. The website is just fine; there are no more costs associated with that. Any way, if you feel like you can give me any helpful pointers as to estimated costs, feel free to shoot a comment my way. Thanks.

Also, Theo do we have any definite amounts yet on what we can expect from UCF in the way of contributions?