Moving/2169 Mission/Painting

This is a page for capturing ideas associated with the preparation and painting of 2169 Mission #300.

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

All preparation work should follow these general guidelines:

• Clean the surface to be painted sufficiently well enough for their to be good adhesion of a new surface covering layer.
• 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.
• Mask what we are not painting
  • Mask to the first seam of whatever we cannot fully envelope with plastic and tape
• 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.

Build Meeting 2009-08-14

Lights - Shannon

• Bringing lights in rear up to level of lights in front, or somewhat higher to put in walls
• Could possible raise them higher, working with Neil Sunday

Painting

• Budget: TBD
• Going to do with volunteer muralists
• We will not hold off on moving
• Basecoat Only, Something Close to White
• Needs a person to handle paint - co-headed by Steve C and Rachel McC

Sub-Spaces

Spaces at 83c

83c has subspaces consisting of:

• The Main / Meeting Room

Spaces Planned for the Sweatshop

Concept: Usage Zones

Academic / Classroom

consisting of conference / classrooms, areas suitable for learning, planning, and colaboration. Room ideas are:

• Dungeons and Dragons room: a rectangular room with a board-room style table in it, walls covered in bookshelves and whiteboards.
• Math Room: Krutcher suggests that rather than a "conference room" style classroom, maybe we want a "math room" -- essentially a room with a couple of small tables, some chairs or couches, lots of pacing space, and a bunch of whiteboards; the idea is to facilitate active, creative discussion.
• Study Rooms: Small rooms just big enough for four people to crowd into or one person to spread out in.
• The chill space / lounge conceptually could belong to this Zone.
• Library -- bookshelves, chairs/cushions/lighting for individual reading, some tables for quiet study
• Possible to have a graphics/drafting area? Light table and drafting tables w/maylines, ETC.

Make / Build

Consisting of shop and lab space. Ideas include:

• Dirty Shop -- the machine room / fab space for actually sawing, hammering, lathing and milling.
• Clean Shop -- electronics lab filled with benches for soldering &c.
• Craft Space -- suitable for textile work &c
• Darkroom -- For developing pictures; double doors to allow entry when dark; red lighting
• Chem lab -- space suitable for chemistry / bio work
• A/V studio -- soundproof room.
  • big enough for a small band and mics
  • greenscreen & camera recording
  • Ham shack -- Amaetur radio operating room. Needs good way to get feed lines to the roof.

Common needs:

• positive airflow ventilation to outside
• pressurized hoses to operate tools, blow / suck debris
• possible water & drainage hookup
• strong power lines
• security / fencing-off for party times
• sound barrier to other zones

Teams

• Painting -- Responsible for prepping and painting the vertical surfaces of the space beneath the ceiling and over the floor. Contact Steve AKA Mooch , Rachel