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Walking from the Stairwell Entrance to the right, which would be counter-clockwise along the perimeter of the space: | Walking from the Stairwell Entrance to the right, which would be counter-clockwise along the perimeter of the space: | ||
* Mask Alarm / Intercom[ | * Mask Alarm / Intercom[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrcamuti/3857305579/] | ||
* Pull Nails on wall[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrcamuti/3857305815/] | |||
* Scrape peeling paint and clean up the debris from the skylight /ceiling/corner between the doors | * Scrape peeling paint and clean up the debris from the skylight /ceiling/corner between the doors[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrcamuti/3858096350/] | ||
* Mask electrical breakers and anything large and valuable on that corner | * Mask electrical breakers and anything large and valuable on that corner[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrcamuti/3857306453/] | ||
* Dry Wall patch by the wood elevator door | * Dry Wall patch by the wood elevator door[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrcamuti/3857306639/] | ||
* Dry Wall patch in the bike cove space | * Dry Wall patch in the bike cove space[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrcamuti/3857306853][http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrcamuti/3858097310/] | ||
* Pull staples from the wall in bike cove | * Pull staples from the wall in bike cove[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrcamuti/3857307267/] | ||
* Remove curtain rod and closet rod in the hangout nook, near the fire escape | * Remove curtain rod and closet rod in the hangout nook, near the fire escape[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrcamuti/3858097816] | ||
* | * Mask stairs by sliding glass door | ||
* conduit under the Mission-side windows:''' evaluate with electrical team what is staying''' | * conduit under the Mission-side windows:''' evaluate with electrical team what is staying''' | ||
* Deal with plate covers for the ~6 ancient single outlet plugs in the space | * Deal with plate covers for the ~6 ancient single outlet plugs in the space |
Revision as of 11:06, 27 August 2009
This is a page for capturing ideas associated with the preparation and painting of 2169 Mission #300. Painting -- Responsible for prepping and painting the vertical surfaces of the space beneath the ceiling and over the floor.
- Budget: TBD
- Basecoat Only, Something Close to White
General Guidelines
- We want a pragmatic and quickly-feasible approach taken to painting
- Our goal is to make the space usable, not finish every little nook and cranny with perfect coverage
Prep Work
Rules of thumb:
- Clean the surface to be painted sufficiently well enough for their to be good adhesion of a new surface covering layer. This goes for loose dirt or excessive grease (the rear windowsills for example), but generally we do not need to wash the walls.
- Remove obstructions, or at least minimize their intrusion
- nails power-hammer driven into cement can't be yanked... but can be snipped off or ground nearly flush with the wall. Of course if they're really high... we probably don't care
- Mask what we are not painting
- Mask to the first seam of whatever we cannot fully envelope with plastic and tape, such as electrical outlets
- Scrape excess paint and debris from the walls
- Sand the surface until there are smooth edges to any scraped bits.
- Focus on adhesion for determining when to stop. The wall facing the stairs and sliding glass door fire escape is a great example of great adhesion that has been painted over multiple times.
- Prime surfaces that will not receive self-priming paint well.
- Galvanized metals and anything going onto a gloss-finished area are prime (pun intended) examples of what needs to be primed.
Focused Areas
1. check with electrical team on some of the rusty square conduit and outlets; should they come off or not?
- front wall attached to the janky breaker box
- south wall front
- south wall rear
- hole in north wall with closed box over it
2. these are the prep needs (pix coming in a bit), so ppl can just go do a small amount of work when they have a chance. Please note that cleanup is part of any task - this is meaningful for scraping loose paint.
Re-Iteration of General guidelines
- Of particular importance are the rat-sized holes (there were 3 IIRC).
- pull nails/screws/staples
- scrape peeling paint (and clean up)
- remove conduit as OK'd by electrical team
- sand down rust on conduit that will remain
Focal Points of Prep Work
<insert map here with locations of prep work needing particular focus highlighted>
Walking from the Stairwell Entrance to the right, which would be counter-clockwise along the perimeter of the space:
- Mask Alarm / Intercom[1]
- Pull Nails on wall[2]
- Scrape peeling paint and clean up the debris from the skylight /ceiling/corner between the doors[3]
- Mask electrical breakers and anything large and valuable on that corner[4]
- Dry Wall patch by the wood elevator door[5]
- Dry Wall patch in the bike cove space[6][7]
- Pull staples from the wall in bike cove[8]
- Remove curtain rod and closet rod in the hangout nook, near the fire escape[9]
- Mask stairs by sliding glass door
- conduit under the Mission-side windows: evaluate with electrical team what is staying
- Deal with plate covers for the ~6 ancient single outlet plugs in the space
- Remove conduit laid over windows
- Pull / Cut phone wire under Mission-side windows
- Mask Huge pipes in the corner of the space near the windows
- Easier to keep them unfinished than to try and paint all of them...
- Minimize work in the electrical storage closet.
- Enough nice stuff is there that we can hand-roll that room at a point in the future with less hassle than prepping it for spraying now.
- Patch the hole @ knee height near the ADA bathroom
- Pull / Cut the phone wire by the double doors that extends freely suspended towards the Mission street side of the space
- check with electrical Pull plastic conduit for wall, near the ADA bathroom again
- Mask Sink
- Scrub and prime the windowsills
- trash the godawful venetian blinds we have in the kitchen
- They are hideous and will only block early morning light... when no decent hacker is there anyway.
- And anyone who is there at that time probably wants the light to be let in anyway.
- They are hideous and will only block early morning light... when no decent hacker is there anyway.
- Ignore the elevated office with nice crap in it.
- Ignore meaning mask off the window and doorway, cause we aren't painting it for now, see reasons in electrical storage closet above.
- Rip out the minidesk near the shrine and beneath the window of the elevated office
- Remove shelf with shrine on it
- Dispose of shrine (craigslist freestuff / freecycle?)
- Patch conduit hole
- Pull baseboarding off the wall that was serving as a bulliten board space.
- remove molding with employee info, near front door
- remove curtain rod and conduit used as clothing rack
- pull off phone cords and jacks (but not alarm cords)
- patch holes w/Bondo (big holes) or spackle (small holes). may need a bit of sheetrock patch for VERY big holes
- remove mini desk under the window near the shrine
- remove shelf with shrine, or not...
- windowsills: scrape as needed vaccuum, scrub with brush, and wipe
3. mask floors, windows, etc
- see notes that are physically located on the rear nasty stairwell
- mask to first joint on electrical items
Painting
1. prime, using sprayer in most areas but rollers in some:
- dj booth (to not crap on camera laptop)
- small office (not painting the inside, don't spray over the top)
- we don't care about the ladder to the roof
- we don't care about the black pipes by the ceiling (the vertical parts we can mask or not, whatever)
2. next day, paint, using sprayer similar to how primer was done
Materials & equipment
- vaccuum
- rags (need)
- dish scrubbers (for rust)
- scrapers
- broom & dustpan
- masking tape (need)
- dropcloths (need)
- brushes?
- rollers (need; Rachel has several)
- roller pans (need; Rachel has several)
- spackle (need)
- bondo (need)
- primer for walls (use what was recommended by Gina's friend?)
- primer for windows (use what was recommended by Gina's friend?)
- paint (eggshell or semigloss, white)
- ladder(s)
Additional Thoughts
People have fantastic ideas about murals, special paints (blackboard paint, magnetic paint), other decorations, etc. I think we should get the base paint done before deciding about final treatments, as those can be done in entirely separate processes and there will be a fair amount of time before the space is full of Crap again anyway. Let's get the base job done and then deal with these one by one as time & energy permit.
Team Members
- Steve AKA Mooch
- Rachel
- Anyone else willing to add themselves.