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The floor...
I wanted to try and get some flooring down asap after I'd finished the dusty ceiling jobs. I had an enormous metal cabinet full of tools that had been living in the lounges of our various houses for the last five years and it was an exciting prospect to have that out of the house, along with lots of other crap. But I didn't want to fill the new room up with junk only to have to take it out again when I do the floor.
My friend had a load of old Canadian maple gym flooring at his studio from a Zara shoot we did a few years back. The production had paid for it so it hadn't cost him anything but when I mentioned it he said he wanted to sell it to me. With some cajoling he eventually agreed to let me have it.
I needed 8.6m2. I searched through my emails and eventually found the original email regarding flooring for the Zara shoot and we'd ordered 9m2. Hurrah!
It was way more covered in old adhesive and crap than I remembered, and when I dug it out of storage I thought I'd probably just have to scrape it all off.
When I actually started laying it though I soon discovered the bituminous substance was not going to come off easily, and was caked on the tongues and grooves. Really bad bits I chipped away at, but mostly I just said fuck it, It's just a shed, and laid it gappy.
In the end, there wasn't quite enough, some must have been binned or damaged during the shoot. When I got about half way I would be sorry and so I left a door matt cutout of 1m x 50cm, you can just see that starting in the second picture.
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