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   CloudHidden | Oct 09, 2006 06:23am | #1

   Go ahead, tell some stories. It's fun to see ones stuff on TV, but they do a horrid job of getting the credits right, and don't much care, be/c already they're on to the next one.

   Disappearing wall? Do tell...

   
   

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   Edited 10/8/2006 11:24 pm ET by CloudHidden

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   Gunner | Oct 09, 2006 06:46am | #2

     Yea I'm with Cloud. What's this disapearing wall you talk of?

    

    

    

    

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   CloudHidden | Oct 09, 2006 06:52am | #3

   I think he billed for a wall he never built. "It's a disappearing wall, dude, yeah, that's the ticket!"

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   migraine | Oct 09, 2006 07:23am | #4

    

   I think he billed for a wall he never built. "It's a disappearing wall, dude, yeah, that's the ticket!"

   That's a good one...

   You might get a kick out of it.  Sort of a free form interior. 

   Actually there was a down stairs room the had a billards table, bar and a theater.  The owner wanted to beable to seperate the theater from the rest, but keep it open for when he is entertaining.  The solution was to build a set of 42' high cabinets that also had a 42"H x 12'L wall that raised on a hydraulic/cable system.  The wall that raised was about 10-12" deep that actually was a shallow display cabinet. There was metal fabricator in Orange, Ca. that did the electronics/hydaulics, along with all the stainless steel in the house(I believe structural steel too) 

   As for funny.. the owner that was interviewed was on the jobsite while the upstairs balcony terrazo was being honed.  In the floor there were areas that were cut out to act as skylights for the lower deck and these were to be later fitted with etched glass.(we called them the panty-check portals) 

   Anyway, while the owner was on the upper deck, see saw a pretty girl(glass artist) come in through the front door and he immediately jumped up and started for the door.  The girl made eyecontact with him and all he could say was "could I help you?" as he stepped forward and fellow through one of the cutouts, down to the lower level.  the worst part of this, he fell into the jacuzzi that was another 6" deep. Total fall was probably 12'

   Later when I was taking to the glass artist,  she told me "that it was just like in a Roadrunner cartoon where Wiley Coyote falls through his own trap"

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   As for giving credit, The General Contractor has never received recognition in any magazine, newspaper, or Tv show.  He is the one that deserves it.

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   CloudHidden | Oct 09, 2006 03:01pm | #5

   Thanks.