[11915] in APO News
Protect the floor!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kelly Alioth Drinkwater)
Sun Apr 26 18:28:28 2009
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:28:15 -0400
From: Kelly Alioth Drinkwater <kdrinkwa@MIT.EDU>
To: apo-news@mit.edu
A bunch of Wellness Week people were painting posters outside, and
about an hour after they left Liz! looked outside and saw a
non-negligible amount of paint on the floor.
The paint we use is water-soluble, and can mostly be scrubbed off with
a wet sponge and some elbow grease. (We have sponges in with the
dishwashing stuff, above the paper-plates cabinet.) But this is a pain
in the ass, and becomes much more so if the paint sits there for a
while.
While I was cleaning up, I noticed a few splotches of paint that
didn't look like the colors they were using for Wellness Week, and my
guess is that they come from the Big Screw poster painting (though
this could be way off). We do need to follow our own rules about
dropcloth use.
Some advice, both for us and other groups:
* Too much dropcloth is better than too little.
* If you put loads of paint in one spot, it can soak through the
poster. You need a dropcloth all the way under the poster, not just at
the edge.
* Paint can also soak through cloth dropcloths. Plastic is better
(though for some reason I couldn't find our plastic dropcloths just
now -- ???).
* If you step on wet paint (or get it on your hand), you can track it
all over the floor without noticing.
* If you notice paint on the floor, wipe it the hell up!
* When you're done painting, move the posters and dropcloths and
inspect the floor. It can be easy to miss splotches because the floor
is a speckly pattern anyway.
Tell people these things when they start painting, and remember to
inspect the floor when they're done, if you're around.
YoursInLeadingFloorSanitation,
alioth
