[Build] painting! (general)

[jim]

   if we're using a spray gun, then painting the 
ceiling is not quite, but significantly close to, 
free--costs washing and light prep along with 
paint, very easy to do with an airless (horrible 
to do with rollers). 
   if you don't paint the ceiling, it will look 
bad after the rest of the place is done. 
   painting the glass in the skylights strikes 
me as a good thing: keeps the outside heat out 
and the inside heat in (works for both climes), 
and lets us control interior lighting (if you 
paint the ceiling, definitely paint the skylight 
interiors including glass). 
   if you paint the ceiling, you hide the shiny 
pipes that otherwise scream: new work here! 
   if you paint the ceiling, you can paint it 
white and get improvements in reflection of 
light: better lighting at lower cost. 
   if you decide to paint the ceilings, do it 
now, while people are out and masking and crews 
and equipment is in. 



On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 14:16 -0700, Rachel McConnell wrote:
> jim wrote:
> >    i very, very, very much hope we're painting the 
> > ceilings. if we're using a sprayer, it would be 
> > crazy not to. what to do about the glass in the 
> > skylights? i say wash, brush away loose paint, 
> > and paint. 
> 
> Jim, why paint the ceiling?  The paint there looks to be in much better
> shape than on the walls, so I figured to skip it.  What did I miss?
> 
> Regarding the skylights, I'd also like to skip those at least
> temporarily until we determine whether they heat the place up too much
> or not; they do let in a bunch of good light which will keep our
> electric bill down.  They're still mostly painted over from the last
> people anyway, although some scraping has been done.
> 
> Rachel
>