Warehouse Row - Building #1 - Floor Experiments

I need to think a few things through on the walls so I turned to the floors. I'm including floors because my intent is to light this structure. I really intend to light every structure on Warehouse Row to at least a limited extent. That means floors which in turn will also be the ceilings from which lights will need to be suspended and I need to figure out how to rout the wires. At this point I'm researching options but LED lights are what I'll be using one way or another. So floors are mandatory.

I dry fitted the walls again this time with a piece of paper underneath and I traced out the floor template from that. This created a floor template based on the interior dimensions of the building rather than the exterior dimensions from the drawing. I cut out the template and then cut out five pieces of 1mm foamed PVC for the floor. I printed a couple of sheets of flooring from my Clever Models purchase and got ready experiment on how to glue paper to foamed PVC. Since Gorilla Glue work so well for the walls I figured I would try it on the floor. The issue being is that you need one of the two surfaces to be wet for Gorilla Glue to bond. Since the new inkjet printer has ink tanks rather than ink cartridges I was hoping that may the color wouldn't be affected as much by being wet. I'll just let the pictures speak for themselves at this point.

Paper Floor Template, perhaps cardboard would have been a better choice but this worked just fine since all I really need to do was mark the corners.

Four floors and one roof ready to cut out.

Ready for experimentation!

Wooden floor texture from Clever Models

Weighted down for the glue to dry. I can already see the ink doing a color shift, at least its not running.

And the final product. A decided shift to green where the water came all the way through from the backside. The Gorilla glue worked but if this was anything other than a warehouse or factory floor I would probably toss it. Its unlikely anyone will notice the color shift through the windows and if they do it will just look like a stained industrial floor. I think I'll try wood glue next.