Yesterday, our Painting Technician, Tim, instructed us on how to building screens (aka partition walls) for the degree show. It is also a useful skill to know for the future, in case I have to build my own exhibition some day!
Here’s what you need:
- Safety glasses
- steel-capped workboots
- 18mm lightweight MDF sheets (recommend from a quality wood shop not B&Q)
- Hammer
- Nails (wood nails and/or masonry nails)
- hacksaw
- 1 x 2 inch planed boards
- “T” bars and straight bars to connect and stabilise wall sections and corners (optional)
The basic order of things:
- SAFETY FIRST!! WEAR SAFETY goggles!! (and steel-capped work boots)
- put the wood stud on the wall, nails in diagonally (holds to wall better)
- Put wood stud in the floor – NOTE: masonry nails for concrete, else wood nails for parquet floors
- Use brackets to secure screens together for support
- Put up main walls
- Saw off extra floor stud (no need to measure)
- Measure up centre of end piece, hammer nails partway thru so they can easily go into the screen
- Put the end piece in place, hammer in centre nails rest of the way
- May need to saw off extra of the end screen floor stud, AT A DIAGONAL
kelise soixante-douze 