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Thanks Alan. It's not the resin's fault. It was the mold designer's… me.

Last night this site was running very, very slow, so I'll post Friday's and yesterday's work now and add another tonight if I get more done.

The front walls are complete and I'm now working on the stair case and the elevator shaft bracing that goes inside.

After finishing the two entry side walls and gluing them onto the ends of the front entry wall using angle blocks for squareness.

RH Gluing Entry Hall Wall LFT

I then realized that I needed to build one more of this size wall… the partition wall between the stair well and elevator shaft. This wall is just vertical studs, no blocking. The stair side of the wall got the "drywall" treatment.

RH Entry Hall Partition Wall

For some reason (which I can't figure out since I used the same building pattern) this mid wall was one-stud-too-wide and didn't come out the same as the end wall. I had to remove the last board on the right, carefully, so it would not bulge the front wall when all glued together.

I glued the wall using an angle block to ensure it was square.

Here's the finished entry walls before the drywall and mid-wall.

RH Entry Hall Walls Comp

I started constructing the stair assembly. If you pay attention you'll notice that the side and front walls don't actually line up. Puzzling since I built them on the patterns. Answer: I created the different parts of the structure by cutting and pasting different parts of the pre-exisiting parts of the long-wall drawing. These parts I was copying weren't exactly the same. As I've been saying, "If I have to build one of these again, I will be making a lot of changes."

I measured the width of the stair landing joists directly off the model, not the drawing, to be sure I was getting a "real" number. Like real joist I felt I needed some cross-bracing to prevent the boards from flopping over while gluing on the floor boards. Probably overkill...

RH Stair Landing Start

For the remainder of the landings I'm going to use less robust lumber for the cross-braces.

I tried the landing in place before gluing on the front walls to ensure that the length is correct.

RH Landing Fit Test

I glued the stair cases to this first landing and tried it again. It was comforting to see that the stair runs lined up with the floors as they should. But I don't have much space over the first floor door opening for the stair joist to fit if I use the stair ledge method as I'm doing on the mid-landing. I could butt glue them to the wall and assume their using Simpson Stonge-Tie Joist Hangers. I'll go that route.

RH Stair Start

After seeing how well it all worked, I glued the front assembly to the main front wall and held it with gravity clamps.

RH Gluing Entry Hall to Front

Here's the wall fully attached. Looks just as complex as my drawings. The front wall is not glued to the base yet and I still have to make the base for the entry hall and loading dock.

RH Entry Hall Attached

I then again tried the completed stair into the space to see how it worked. It did! In this image I did NOT push the stair all the way down to the stair ledge so it does not align with the floor level, but it does.

RH Stair Fit Test 3

Until next time.

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  • RH Entry Hall Partition Wall
  • RH Gluing Entry Hall Wall LFT
  • RH Entry Hall Walls Comp
  • RH Stair Landing Start
  • RH Landing Fit Test
  • RH Stair Start
  • RH Gluing Entry Hall to Front
  • RH Stair Fit Test 3
  • RH Entry Hall Attached

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