kwartzlab kleanup

Here’s a walk-through video of our fantastically cool and first-ever physical space for kwartzlab.

Click through for stills from the day.

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What a good day! First day in kwartzlab’s physical space as tenants. Ben, Bevan, Gus, Andrew, Ed, James, John, Alex, and I came out to clean up the space today.

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Lots of leftovers from the previous tenant. There was a reason they left the fridge and stove behind: they don’t work.

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Ben found a stash of herbal remedies including witch hazel. Ben! It’s not a beer, don’t drink it!

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Andrew gets all the credit for scrubbing the hell out of the kitchen sink. Better than new.

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Double credit for Bevan (and Ben) who rolled in at 10am, 2 hours before all of us. Go boys!

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This is how Alex relaxes after final exams ;-) He’s on window detail with me and Gus.

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Cause, yeah, the windows were covered in some odd combination of that spray-on fake snow, black, and yellow paint. Crikey! Nothing that can’t be remedied with 3 hours and 3 scrapers. Now that the windows are clean, I need an extension ladder to get cleaning these babies from the outside. Also need to repair the caulking externally so we don’t lose any of these precious panes.

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This is not a good look for the entrance, so Ed and Ben are on the job.

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Gracias, Ed!

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Gus! Don’t jump! It’s not as bad as it looks.

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We can just put this out to the street for garbage day, right?

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I totally conquered this bathroom today. Why, the Virgin Mary herself would be proud to…

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Thanks to James and John for doing the supply run to get cleaning products… and beer! Of course they contributed elbow grease too.

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Old guys stand over there, please.

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This usually marks the end of any further meaningful work of the day, but we got another 3 hours in after beer break. That’s how we roll.

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Look at them beautiful windows now! ROCK!

Thanks a lot, guys, for giving up your Sunday to contribute to the space. Much appreciated.

Keep moving forward!
 DW