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- STEP 101 > Carefully bring down your side wall and press it against the edge of the front foamcore.
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- STEP 102 > You may notice a few bubbles pop out from the seem, don't worry about this, let it cool off maybe 20-30 seconds
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- STEP 103 > And you can scrape them with your nail and create these little nose boogers 🙂 Please DON'T EAT THEM - LOL. Just toss them in the trash.
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- STEP 104 > Here I am showing you an example of how the "1-2-3 blocks" are used. I aligned my foamcore inner piece with the front foamcore base and then gently pressed the 1-2-3 block against it. This way I can rely on the block as to where to place my hot glued side without using a pencil guide or my eye's estimation.
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- STEP 105 > A quick line of Hot Glue along ONE side of the inner wall piece.
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- STEP 106 > Carefully plave it on the foamcore base and tilt it upwards ( red arrows ) it will stop at a perfect 90 degrees when it reaches the block. What you can't see in the photos is that these blocks WEIGH A LOT, you have to really push hard to knock them over. REAL HARD.
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- STEP 107 > Now that you have the perfect 90 degree angle...
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- STEP 108 > Make sure your ends are flush with the corners or your base's inner frame.
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- STEP 109 > We now have both of our inner walls in place using 2 different techniques. Both are good and obviously, not eveyone has these blocks and I build 20+ years without them, so it's not a DO or DIE thing, but once you get them, they really are cool 🙂
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- STEP 110 > Time for the ceiling piece of your archway.
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- STEP 111 > As before, you will want to try and make sure that the corners connect as perfect to 90 degrees as possible. Notice how by doing so, your top piece ( red line ) lays right on top of the side walls ( yellow line ) the side's thickness just lines up perfectly with the top measurements.
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- STEP 112 > The next step has to be done FAST as Hot Glue doesn't stay warm for long when you just place a thin line, you don't want the glue to harden before you can place it. So start with a small line of Hot Glue on ONE SIDE of your ceiling piece.
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- STEP 113 > Then quickly place Hot Glue down the TOP of EACH SIDE piece.
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- STEP 114 > Carefully and quickly place and press down ( yellow arrows ) your ceiling so it touches the bottom foamcore frame piece and then, bring the ceiling towards a 90 degree angle ( red arrow ) until it connects with the side wall tops.
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- STEP 115 > You still have a few seconds to ALIGN YOUR CORNERS !!! Make sure the conect as close to 90 degrees as possible and press down.
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- STEP 116 > Do the same for the other side.
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- STEP 117 > Last verification is making sure the long connection is FLUSH as can be to the foamcore base frame. Remove any glue bubble nose snots once everything has cooled down.
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- STEP 118 > We have an archway now connected to our "B" wall. Now we need to align and connect the other side of your Hallway Archway.
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- STEP 119 > When doing so, FIRST LOOK to see if your walls are mirrored correctly. You don't want a 6 cm on one side and then 9 cm gap on the other.
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- STEP 120 > This is what we want, both 6 cm on one side which means, 9 cm on the other.
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