[gafftaper]

The catwalks are brightly lit and have good access to everything. The deck is diamond plate with about a 6" kick plate on both sides so nothing's going to slide through and it's going to take some serious work to knock something off. Due to storage location issues, nothing will truly be stored on the deck. It'll all be stored in the booth or again possibly in the catwalks. I don't envision a lot of lighting being done from the floor, although I do imagine a lot of work using the scaffold (5x7 rolling contractor scaffold).

Time for a look at the layout... the whole room is about 60'x60'. I took a bad scan from the blueprint and touched it up a little to make things more clear. The Red lines indicate battens with a raceway attached. I've got 15 circuits per batten. I've got 20 short battens on order that will be used to bridge gap between the two installed battens (red lines) so that I can hang instruments out in the middle (scaffold work for sure). The blue area is catwalk. The only way in and out of the catwalks is the ship's ladder in the upper left corner of the picture (I've got an emergency evacuation rope ladder on order). Yes I do have a cute little sand bag rigging system. I've got five 10' battens that I can raise and lower. They can only go out of sight about 8 feet so I can't fly much, but there are lot's of interesting potential uses. The system also came with some spare blocks and lines so I can run a spot line or two anywhere I want in the space. Anyway, that far right side of the picture is the area I was thinking about for storage. If I placed a shallow 3' wide shelf right at the end of the 3 central catwalks it would be pretty unobtrusive. I was thinking the far left side of the picture would be my dead hung area. The round circles on the print are where the HVAC comes down from the ceiling (yep right in the way).