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Almost done with the 1" PVC. At each and every joint we quickly gooped w/ PVC cement, pushed manually, and then used a 4' bar clamp to make the PVC seat fully.

So, the process was:

1. Secure the vertical length of PVC w/ (I think they're called conduit straps) - at the top beam and and bottom plate. We sort of gradually developed custom lengths/bends of the strapping that worked perfectly, and screwed in w/ 4" brass screws. We wanted those suckers to be secure!
2. Starting at the top (we had two horizontals only 8" apart, so we started there, add the horizontals one at a time, pushing them in tightly, and using a 4' bar clamp to make sure they seat fully