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.

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

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. document the prep needs, with yr pix, so ppl can just go do a small amount of work when they have a chance. This should include scraping, as long as we note that cleanup is part of that task. 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
• remove shelf with shrine, or not
• vaccuum & wipe windowsills, scrape as needed

3. once walls are up, go around and verify that all prep is complete

4. mask floors, windows, etc

• see notes on 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; I have several)
• roller pans (need; I have several)
• spackle (need)
• bondo (need)
• primer for walls (use what was recommended by Whosis?)
• primer for windows (use what was recommended by Whosis?)
• paint (eggshell or semigloss, white)
• ladder(s)

I think we should get the base paint done before deciding about blackboard paint or magnetic paint, 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. I don't think either of those needs to be done before the main paint job.

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