Moving/2169 Mission/Painting
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.
- 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
- 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. once walls are up, go around and verify that all prep is complete
4. mask floors, windows, etc
- see notes that are physically located on the rear nasty stairwell
- mask to first joint on electrical items
5. 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)
6. 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.