{"id":66358,"date":"2013-06-21T10:26:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T14:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=66358"},"modified":"2018-04-06T16:03:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T20:03:22","slug":"66358","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/06\/21\/66358\/","title":{"rendered":"Hathorn Hall’s columns get stripped down and freshened up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got some house painting to do this summer? So does Bates.<\/p>\n

And where better to begin than at the beginning, with the college\u2019s oldest building, Hathorn Hall (1857).<\/p>\n\t\n\t

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Giles Giguere of Higgins Custom Painting in Lewiston works on removing 60 layers of paint from the columns of Hathorn Hall. Mike Bradley\/Bates College.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Giles Giguere of Higgins Custom Painting in Lewiston works to strip 60 layers of paint from the columns of Hathorn Hall. Mike Bradley\/Bates College.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Beneath 60 layers of paint lies the \"original substrate\" of Hathorn's columns: Southern yellow pine. Mike Bradley\/Bates College.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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With more than 60 layers of old paint, the Hathorn columns needed far more than a fresh coat. This time, Bates would start over with what Dan Sands, carpentry, paint and masonry services manager at Bates, calls \u201cthe original substrate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bare wood. Southern yellow pine, to be specific.<\/p>\n

Enter Giles Giguere of Higgins Custom Painting in Lewiston, who will apply coats of Peel Away 1, a paint remover that\u2019s corrosive while wet, but environmentally friendly when dry.<\/p>\n

He\u2019ll cover each treated section with a special laminate paper for 24 hours, \u201cso it gets good and saturated,\u201d says Giguere. When the paper is lifted, off comes the paint.<\/p>\n

Well, some of it comes off. He’ll repeat the process three times on each section, then wash the bare columns with water and treat the wood with Citri-Lize, a neutralizing agent.<\/p>\n

After the columns get a good sanding, the Higgins team will apply at least one coat of oil-based primer followed by two coats of semi-gloss acrylic exterior finish paint to match Lane Hall\u2019s columns, which received the same treatment in 2011.<\/p>\n

Weather permitting, stripping and painting Hathorn\u2019s columns and doing trim work around the east and west entrances will take six to eight weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way Bates is, you want everything looking good,\u201d Sands says.<\/p>\n

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