[Build] floor work tomorrow

[Lamont Lucas]

I'm just about to head to the flooring company with a printout of your 
original mail with the grit suggestions for the drum sander, as well as 
this one.

I plan on listening to their suggestions and incorporating them with 
yours, erring on the side of caution.

My end goal for the floors is that they're easier to clean and don't let 
additional dust/crap get caught in the cracks.  But I'm just doing the 
test patch today so that we have a feel for if it's better to do this 
ourselves or pay someone to do it (or possibly there's a contingent that 
says we shouldn't do anything)

jim wrote:
>    let us know more specifically, please: 
> what grit will you start with? will you use a 
> smaller grit before beginning to fill? what 
> will you use for filling? will you put a 
> "primer" coat on after filling? will you 
> follow up with a third, even smaller grit. 
> will you put on any final coats? 
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>    proposal is drum sander: 36 grit, 50 grit, 
> edgers: 36, 50 grit, 
> broad knives: unknown filler, 
> rollers and brushes: shellac, 
> orbital sanders: 80 grit, 
> edgers: 80 grit, 
> rollers adn brushes: unknown top coat. 
>
>    scott has suggested starting the process 
> by setting nails then use drum sanders and 
> 36 grit without cleaning the cracks: the 
> drum sanding with 36 grit will grind down 
> pretty much anything that's in the cracks 
> and also loosen everything in the cracks 
> for easier subsequent clean out. so have a 
> team of crack cleaners with scrapers and 
> putty knives follow the first pass of drum 
> sanders, then vacuum and magnet then drum 
> sand with 50 grit.... 
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> On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 18:37 -0700, Lamont Lucas wrote:
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>> Today I marked out a large section of floor with green neon rope.  That 
>> rope is there so that you don't walk over the floor I'm working on.  
>> Rachel and I did multiple passes with cleaner, knife and tedious 
>> scraping to get that floor clean enough to sand.  Please don't walk on 
>> it and track crap over it.
>>
>> Tomorrow, starting around 11:30, I'm going to vacuum it again, then drum 
>> sand it and start filling in the cracks with whatever pacific coast 
>> flooring recommends.  My plan is to have at least one coat of sealant on 
>> it before the general meeting on tuesday so there's something visible to 
>> consider and examine.
>>
>> If you would like to help, I believe the crack-filling and cleaning is a 
>> task easy to parallelize, and many hands make for light work.
>>
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