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No trouble finding this beach house!
Finished faux bedroom wall.
Seasonal Checklist
FALL
Inspect iron fencing for peeling and chipping.
Inspect stucco for cracks.
Change out color beds fall color.
Schedule tree work for winter.
Prepare turf overseeding budgets.
Clean all debris and leaves from rooftops and drains.
Inspect all roof penetrations for proper seals. |
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The Real World with a Faux Finish?
When Bunim/Murray Productions and MTV were looking for a general contractor
to convert an old waterfront restaurant in San Diego into the next five month
site for The Real World’s “Sunrise Beach House,” Davis and Adam
Construction’s Erik Durkin, Project Manager, chose General Coatings’ David Friend to
accompany him to lend assurance to the quality faux finishing of the young people’s
digs.
The challenge to all subs was to redesign an open-spaced restaurant into a
two-story, three bedroom house (the rest of the space is a single’s wonderland),
consisting of a surf safari room, game room, group shower, a bungalow love
nest and a crow’s nest on the top floor in three weeks instead of a normal ten.The deck now sports a grass meadow, splashed with a Jacuzzi, pool table,
putting green, Hawaiian style cabana and a soon- to- be realized full-sized
basketball court.
And in addition to tapers, framers, drywallers, electricians, plumbers,
painters and a faux finisher performing their trades, the hi-tech MTV people ran
cables through walls and under floors, spinning the head of the on-site auto-cad
operator and raising the blood level of several trades that jetted into
change-order-land.
Pulling the entire team together was on-site superintendent Jason Morrison, a
hands-on keeper of the calm while keeping up the pressure. Foreman R. J.
Conklin led the General Coatings’ team consisting of Jose Guzman and
Jeff Boyd, who was borrowed from the Fire and Flood Division to execute his
faux finishing skills throughout
the interior rooms.
Though Jeff’s work is evident everywhere, it would not have been possible
without the lightning efforts of William Rodgers Drywall’s hot mudmen who
wrestled with their medium for only two days. Jeff’s tools-a weenie roller paint
brush, a wide-faced putty knife, a wet towel and a stubby wallpaper brush for
caressing, coaxing and punishing the paint into faux subtlety-dominate the walls.
Other trades whose teamwork contributed to the fast track success were S. C.
S. Flooring and Gary Electric.
Do you have a tough demanding job, requiring speed, quality and adaptability?
Call the General Coatings “Dream Team.” They make tough jobs look easy.
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Arthur Raybold is VP of Marketing and Sales for General Coatings Painting providing painting, wallcovering and waterproofing services to multi-family, commercial and industrial accounts in Southern California for 20 years. (800) 464-1277 • (858) 587-1277 ext. 306 • www.gencoat.com |
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