Movable walls build out for Art Museum of West Virginia University
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- This is a quick set up of 1 of 10 movable walls that I made for the Art Museum of WVU. Sorry we didn't have video of mudding and painting but the final stills give you the final outcome from our inaugural exhibition.
Thanks for the video! This will help me make my own for some wall installations. I think I’ll also do the full-plywood under the drywall so I don’t have to worry about each piece finding a stud. Cheers!
Nice job, used this to help build a temporary wall for a physics project
This was an awesome video to see! I’m planning a space and the idea of movable walls has just entered my mind . Those look quite substantial so there is probably very little change of them tipping over . What’s the minimum base width you’d suggest for a eight and a half foot tall movable wall?
it is AMAZING! :)
Thanks for this great video. Anyone have any ideas on how to secure the moveable wall to a fixed wall? Ideally it's some sort of a cleat or latch or something that could be released to move the wall. Has to be heavy duty enough to withstand an earthquake shake.
What's the reason you cover the framing with plywood before the sheetrock? Also I think everyone is wondering about the base, wheels attach to wood or metal base that the wall is connected to? Thanks, building a wall for personal studio.
Aaron, the short reason for adding the plywood backer is adding stability and structure for hanging art work. As far as the frame goes; I made it out of 2x2" steel tubing. Then attached the wheels to the metal frame. From there you can see that I bolted plywood to the metal frames before I started studding the whole thing out. I hope that helps.
Hi how did you align the baseboard of the movable wall with the baseboard of the fixed walls
What material is the white wall part?
Hi, I'm wondering how you were able to ensure that this would not tip over. Is it because of the wide width (24"?)
Wonderful! how do you lock the castors when the wall is so low? I cant figure out how you would reach the brake?
You can reach up underneath and lock it with your hands. I also have a cut out inside so if you had to climb into the wall to lock them you can.
Do you remember how much this was to build?
Alec Nicholas I apologize previous comments. If memory serves me, it was probably around $600-700 per wall.
Did you make the base with wheels as well? Any suggestions for that part of the project?
I did make the base with the wheels. 2"x2"x1/8" steel tubing fabricated and welded. If you weren't able to do it any fabrication shop could.
Hi! what kind of joinery you use for this construction?
awesome!
What size castor wheels did you use?
A same question want to know
How did you lock them off to keep them stationary? If someone leaned on it would it move?
All of the casters have locking mechanisms on them. They do not move.
Could use building one on tracks
About how much weight could these walls hold? Thanks for the video.
Andrew Walker I'm not positive on how much weight they would hold but I'm guessing hundreds. Obviously the lower the object to be hung the more stable the wall would be to accommodate more weight. I'd have to look at my records but I believe that the wheels had a 500lb weight limit on each of them.
Thanks for the update. Hope you're well.
are the wheels used here swiveling casters or rigid casters?
Would you happen to have a materials list for this?
Hunt, I'm sorry but I don't think that I do. I built ten of the them so my numbers would be in bulk if I still have them kicking around.
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