[Build] floors: mainly its the timing, was Re: zedd for coordinator

[neil maclean]

Hi Lamont,

Lamont Lucas wrote:
> neil maclean wrote:
>>
>> I want to underline this by saying that we have already made some 
>> rather large mistakes and that, as things stand, we are planning on 
>> making more mistakes this weekend.
>
> While I can admit to some mistakes made with the floor so far (over 
> applying putty, returning the drum sander in exchange for the rotary), 
> I would like to hear more specifics as to what mistakes you feel we 
> will be making this weekend.  Obviously, I would like to prevent such 
> mistakes from happening in the future, but I do not know what your 
> specific objections are to this weekend's flooring activities.
>
I don't mean to crit your work or your learning, I think its great and
the second half of the floor work looks really great, better than I
thought it could in the amount of time you invested. So you deserve
congratulations.

About this weekend its mainly that its the wrong time to do the floors.
The various projects in the space deserve to be completed in a way that
doesn't make extra work. Doing the floors this weekend makes it harder
to paint and to do electrical work. I asked several people last night
about why this was the schedule but didn't get any good answer.

Second, there are lots of details with the floor like edging, and
buffing between coats, and getting enough coats down. These are all
really important to the work actually being concluded as a great job,
which it is on the way to becoming.

What I am recommending is that you continue as the floor team leader, at 
which you are doing a great job, but that your get additional help from 
Zedd who also coordinates with the other teams and helps all of us get 
to the endpoint, of a really great space and a really satisfying 
experience working on it.


> I'm perfectly happy to cede leadership of the floor project this 
> weekend to someone with more experience who is willing to step up.  
> But I strongly feel that if we're going to do the floors, we need to 
> do them quickly, so as to free up the space for other work.
> I'm going to head to the space in 1 hour to return some of the rented 
> equipment and attempt to test the sealant on the sanded patch.  if 
> you're there, perhaps you can tell me your objections.
>




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