Deconstruction of the former social room started – we’re spring cleaning around the house with heavy tools! #studioblog #Graz #HeavyMetal
The small bar had to move in favour of all the steel and iron that we unmounted from walls and the ceiling. Especially because it seemed to be another paradise for a bandwith of fungi cultures that would have impressed every mycologist – it just had to be kicked out of the club by our bouncers Gerald and Michael.
Similar to the main bar the fleeing pre-tenants grabbed everything of value without any regard to consequences and left everything else where it was – such as the beverage pipe lines that had been forgotten beneath the concrete floor, or (unwashed) cutlery and dinnerware that they had left in the sink and in the bar.
In an attempt to pull the smelly beverage lines out of the floor and the wall and give that area some fresh air we dismantled the bar in its pityful condition.
Not only because it hat been exactly above the hole in the ground, but also because it had become way too wet and soaked in old drink to be anywhere close to being anywhere close to repairable.
Unfortunately even the nicely designed seating arrangement in that room fell victim to rust and fungi and – hurting us wood friends a lot: Some „specially talented“ craftsman had painted the beautiful hardwood parquet with black acrylic paint. Unfortunately (but not unpredictably) it has become brittle and wavy since and is breaking where the fungal blossoms grow out from underneath through tiny cracks in the paint. The whole floor has just been suffocated and then settled by funghi. However we will have to wait with taking it out until we have gotten rid of all the old iron…
We also took the large mirrors off the wall in the long hall.
These large mirrors (~2m² each) had been mounted with massive amounts of silicone glue over the whole surface of the gipsum boards. It was impossible to get them off, even with very long blades or any other tricks we tried. the club owners apparently had attached those to stick for eternity. Unfortunately most of them were damaged in the process.
We then took off the rest of the drywalling and removed the mineral wool behind it from the concrete (interior-) wall.
By the end of the day it looked like this.
Right-hand, a large part of the ceiling construction is piled against the wall, to the left you can see some of the glass panels we took off the ceiling prior to cutting down the steel beams and arches.