[Noisebridge-discuss] Build Team Progress

[jim]

On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 16:10 -0700, Sai Emrys wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Shannon Lee<shannon at scatter.com> wrote:
> > Water damage is, I understand, something we're having the landlord take care
> > of; although having someone catalog it and take ownership of making sure it
> > happens would be good.
> 
> This sounds like more a negotiation task than a get-shit-done task, at
> least for first pass.
> 
> > I am pretty sure we're just talking about roughness and ugliness -- renting
> > orbital sanders and slopping urethane around, that sort of thing.
> 
> Hm. One thing to consider of course is that we needn't do the entire
> space. Rough work rooms, for example, probably don't need the
> prettification. 
JS: sealing them tends to get rid of the risk of grodiness 
(worst case: blood poisoning from a splinter or fall) and 
also makes it much easier to clean things up (e.g. metal 
filings, spills). 

> 
> I think it'd be neat to have in the lounge / disco areas, maybe some
> in the clean work areas, but I'm meh on whether it's worth the effort
> / expense. And of course it'd mean we'd have to be a bit more careful
> with those areas, which I suspect people will find to be a pain. 
JS: no need to be more careful anywhere. just have at 
in the usual way and a year or two later, smear on 
another coat where it's needed. don't get caught up 
with too much prettification. 
> 
> Is there any way - or need - to fix the unevenness / sagging? I don't
> have the requisite construction knowledge, but as a layman it seems
> that the floors are sagging between posts (which I'm guessing means
> that there are support beams between the posts as well, under the
> floor). The floor *seems* solid enough, but it makes me slightly
> uneasy.
JS: probably not. either the floors are worn down, and 
the fix would entail replacing planks, or their actually 
sagging, and the fix would entail redoing structure 
underneath. 
> 
> Another potential would be to put something on top of the current
> flooring. If that something is variable-depth (like sand or cement
> with tiling / linoleum / etc), then we'd both correct the unevenness -
> by filling it in to be level - and not have to deal with sanding the
> wood, just with putting some other nice surface on top. One drawback
> is it'd be heavier, so more stress on the floor support structure. But
> again, I don't know whether this method actually exists, is feasible,
> or is a good idea; I'm just thinking in terms of raw physical
> manipulation.
JS: there are various concrete types meant for floors, 
but they're expensive, and you're right about the weight; 
up side they're very good as a fire barrier. my guess is 
that we live with the sags and droops. 

Seems to me easiest to demo the place and then do the 
floors when stuff is mostly out of the way rather than 
do floors after walls and partitions and such are up 
and in the way of a long straight sanding run. 
> 
> - Sai
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