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CYLINDRICAL COLUMN DRESSING

The lantern’s metallic columns are covered in a crumbly, The bottom of the columns, cut in bias, shows a slanting
sprayed fireproof coating, with a thick texture. Initially, it was rebate, also intended for receiving the fitting wooden skirting
planned to dress them with curved cardboard plaster plates board. This rebate is compensated for by reinforcement. Its
but the company suggested a variant in GRG (Glass Reinforced completion and the level adjustment of the dressing installation
Gypsum, a glass fibre reinforced plaster) prefabricated hulls. are critical for the work to be successful. Indeed, the elliptical
This solution has the advantage of being quicker to execute rebate is no easy achievement in a prefabrication mould; on the
on site but requires the hulls to be wholly drawn in three other hand, as hull is set before the raised wooden floor in order
dimensions taking all their dimensional specificities into not to damage the latter, it is crucial for it to be slipped right
account. And they are many: various inclinations, united under the dressing with minimal tolerance.
columns, couplings with fireproof walls, etc.

Dressings are presented in the shape of two half hulls
20 mm thick assembled with rebate joints. Hull fixations
to the columns, invisible from the outside, are set through
a fibrosilicate block intended for compensating for the
unavoidable damaging of the fireproof flocking in places.

The raised floor slides under the plaster casing. Close-up of the plinth integrated into the plaster casing.