THE WATERPROOFING CONTRACTOR is being engaged mainly to coat the vertical wall surfaces. Painting certain other elements of the façade is incidental—but still necessary. (Otherwise, they will look bad by comparison.)
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Below the jump, this post explains our intended schema. (It was updated on 7-31 from the original 6-17 post, following another on-site meeting of the color committee.)…
Walls
The façade walls, including the wooden trim/fascia strip at the top (currently white), shall be coated to match the light greenish-blue of Half Hailstorm. The equivalent Sherwin-Williams colorant coding is given here.
Columns
The Greek-style columns shall be painted in the off-white color known as White Sand, in Sydney Harbour’s stone paint fine (textured) finish.
Accent panel
The recessed ceiling of the portico (which is readily visible from the sidewalk and the steps) shall be painted with regular acrylic paint in the medium-dark hue called Double Hailstorm (eggshell), connoting a canopy of protection.
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| Red lines show the recessed surfaces proposed to be painted in the accent color |
This area is an estimated 166 square ft, based upon the architectural drawings. (The portico floor is 34'x8'. The recessed ceiling is approx. 3'x32', and the inset sides 1'x70'.)
Stars of David, and our name
The two stars shall be painted in the medium-dark Double Hailstorm, in aqua satin enamel finish.
So, too, the name MISHKON TEPHILO on the wall. (Presumably it would be best to paint around the existing lettering when applying the wall coating.)
Doors and windows and their frames
Given our limited resources, we will leave these items as is (white) for the time being.
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Appendix — note to self
(The color committee’s originally suggested surface for an accent panel—namely, the façade under the portico—is not optimal. Facing southwest, it gets a LOT of direct sunlight. That wall would fade and deteriorate more quickly if given a medium-dark hue, adding to maintenance costs. To illustrate the point, below is a photo from 2020, a year before we repainted the wall section in question. As you can see, the portion around the doors was nearly as faded as the portion above the columns.
Furthermore, that wall is exposed to rain at its southern edge, so it needs a waterproof coating; however, it does not seem cost-effective—in application or maintenance—to introduce a third color of waterproof coating, alongside what is on the main façade and on the south wall.)
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