STEP 101 > Carefully bring down your side wall and press it against the edge of the front foamcore.

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

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.

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.

STEP 105 > A quick line of Hot Glue along ONE side of the inner wall piece.

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.

STEP 107 > Now that you have the perfect 90 degree angle...

STEP 108 > Make sure your ends are flush with the corners or your base's inner frame.

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 🙂

STEP 110 > Time for the ceiling piece of your archway.

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.

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.

STEP 113 > Then quickly place Hot Glue down the TOP of EACH SIDE piece.

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.

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.

STEP 116 > Do the same for the other side.

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.

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.

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.

STEP 120 > This is what we want, both 6 cm on one side which means, 9 cm on the other.


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