{"id":862,"date":"2024-07-17T21:09:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T21:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/?p=862"},"modified":"2024-07-18T15:19:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T15:19:15","slug":"starting-the-finishes-sanding-and-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/2024\/07\/17\/starting-the-finishes-sanding-and-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting the Finishes: Sanding, Painting, Lighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dining Commons is currently wrapped in plastic to contain dust and &#8220;dry fall&#8221; as crews sand and paint surfaces. (Dry fall is a specialty type of paint or coating used for spray application. It is designed to dry quickly so that overspray from, for example, painting a ceiling, falls to the floor dry instead of wet.)<\/p>\n<p>Walls (except where tile will be installed), soffits, and the waffle ceiling of the Dining Commons will all get a fresh coat of paint in this process.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-863\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-863\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/files\/2024\/07\/Waffle-ceiling-painting.jpg\" alt=\"Plastic enclosure from floor to ceiling and partially repainted waffle ceiling in the Dining Commons.\" width=\"504\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/files\/2024\/07\/Waffle-ceiling-painting.jpg 714w, https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/files\/2024\/07\/Waffle-ceiling-painting-292x300.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 85vw, 504px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A plastic enclosure contains dust and spray during sanding and painting in the Dining Commons, including a fresh coat on the waffle ceiling.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_864\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-864\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-864\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/files\/2024\/07\/Servery-prepped-for-painting.jpg\" alt=\"Servery entrance with walls and soffits sanded and prepped for painting. \" width=\"499\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/files\/2024\/07\/Servery-prepped-for-painting.jpg 753w, https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/files\/2024\/07\/Servery-prepped-for-painting-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 85vw, 499px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The walls and soffits of the servery are prepped for painting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Once the ceiling was fully painted, crews began installing new pendant lights throughout the Dining Commons area.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-870\" style=\"width: 493px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-870\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/files\/2024\/07\/Dining-Commons-lighting.jpg\" alt=\"Pendant globe lights installed in a grid pattern in the Dining Commons\" width=\"493\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/files\/2024\/07\/Dining-Commons-lighting.jpg 634w, https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/files\/2024\/07\/Dining-Commons-lighting-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 85vw, 493px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pendant globe lighting will be installed throughout the Dining Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dining Commons is currently wrapped in plastic to contain dust and &#8220;dry fall&#8221; as crews sand and paint surfaces. (Dry fall is a specialty type of paint or coating used for spray application. It is designed to dry quickly so that overspray from, for example, painting a ceiling, falls to the floor dry instead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/2024\/07\/17\/starting-the-finishes-sanding-and-painting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Starting the Finishes: Sanding, Painting, Lighting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dining-commons-renovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.augsburg.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}