[SML] Cleaning the audience space

[ken long]

 have a outdoor stage  we went with leaf vacs fitted with hepa filter bags
from woodcraft supply for the  line of dust collectors. they were placed
inside the oem zippered bags. picked up all the dust, popcorn excetra, all
we had to get was the cups and straws. if I remember right our leaf vacu
where fron stil.

On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 1:36 PM, Paul Guncheon via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> Don't use blowers, they suck... ummm wait. There is a story coming. I'll
> make it short though.
>
> I designed and built a show in a smallish theater that was set in a 3/4
> view or thrust position, i.e. seating on three sides of the stage.  The set
> consisted of about fifty to seventy-five tree trunks, a bunch of bushes,
> and assorted foliage, grass, and stones. We had sculpted a forest floor
> with a lot of flat-ish rocks sculpted out of Homesote and Canec (like
> Homesote but softer and made with sugar cane stalks) by the use of
> grinders, sanders, and what all. This, as one might imagine, made a LOT of
> dust. Quite a bit of debris went into the seating.
>
> The night before the first preview the cleaning crew came in and for some
> reason, decided to use leaf blowers as part of their procedure to clean the
> seating. They had never done this before. When we came in the next morning
> to put stuff away as the set was finished, we discovered that the entire
> set was covered in dust and dirt. Everything was brownish grey.
>
> But the seating was clean.
>
> Grrr.
>
> We spent the next many hours patiently vacuuming up the dust (Do you have
> any idea how long it takes to vacuum a bush?) and replacing the dirt where
> needed. The cleaning crew was "cautioned" by management (at the kind and
> gentle urging of the TD, my partner in building the set) to never use
> blowers again.
>
> Of course, this didn't prevent them from, many months later, cleaning up
> the artfully placed "litter" from a punk nightclub set. We proceeded to
> replace and hot glue every piece of trash back onto the set.
>
> We live, we learn.
>
> Laters,
>
> Paul 1
>
>
>
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