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.