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pole + spackled ceilings….help!
I can't be without a pole for the month that I'll be staying in my home town for xmas break – I just can't! Here's my dilemma. My mom is pretty obsessive about everything in the house being clean, neat, like new, and pretty much all-around perfect. Every room in the house except the garage has spackled ceilings, but I can't put my pole up in the garage because the track that the garage door is on is suspended from the ceiling and takes up a lot of vertical space – I wouldn't really be able to invert without hitting it. And that's aside from the fact that even if the track wasn't there, I'd have to find a way to deal with the fact that the part of the ceiling that would give me the most space around the pole is too high for it anyway. My pole is an X-Pole Xpert. Today in pole class a girl mentioned that her pole doesn't crush the spackle in her apartment, but she has a PS pole and the rubber on the dome is different – on the Xpert, there's only rubber on the outer ring of the dome, and there's a hole in the middle of the top of it that I already know leaves a dimple on the ceiling. I can probably cover the hole to keep that from happening, but then there's still the pressure of the dome on the spackle and I don't want to assure my mom that it won't damage the ceiling if, in fact, it will. It's not like they'd never be able to respackle the ceiling, but if I can avoid damaging it, that would be best.
Has anyone dealt with this?
Times like these I really wish I had a free-standing pole…
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It depends on how "crumbly" the spackle is. My previous apartment was a new building, and the spackle was still pretty solid and not brittle. The spackle they used was kind of rubbery (I don't know how else to describe it). My Xpole left no mark at all on it. I was amazed. However, I moved to an older building last year that was last renovated in the 90's, and the ceiling spackle is kind of brittle. Bits of it flaked off when I installed my pole. My Xpole now has made a faint ring on the ceiling where it either squished the spackle or made part of it flake off.
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Thank you! I know the spackle in our living room is pretty new, but I have no idea how old it is in the other rooms…I'll have to ask.
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