For those who didn't know, Kaplan Arena has been closed for the past month undergoing a huge anti-mold project that has involved completely cleaning the ugly, rapidly-growing mold that has been evident across the arena's ceiling for the past several years.

The floor, completely covered with protective lining, has been filled with floor to ceiling construction to enable workers to clean the ceilings and walls of the mold. This project had to be done...it had grown into a health hazard and offered the grim possibility that the health department would shut the whole place down because of the mold growth.

Last season any glance at the ceiling would have made the problem evident to anyone.

No idea of the cost---but it had to be very high for a space as big as Kaplan Arena...it costs a small fortune just to get mold out of a residence. Many workmen, working high on the floor to ceiling parapets, were involved in this major project.

Hopefully the costs were paid for by the College's maintenance funds,
not athletic funds, since the building, of course, serves other major functions for W&M (graduation, convocations, concerts, etc.).

Our team has been working out in the student athletic center directly across from W&M Hall.

Maintenance is a state function & that is most certainly maintenance.

This is fantastic news. That mold was a huge eyesore and I'll be happy to no longer breathe in spores while watching our teams play.

Big Tribe, not to doubt your word, heh,heh, but have you actually seen, with your own eyes, workers "cleaning" the ceiling tiles in Kaplan Arena???

The reason I ask, is that several years ago, I seem to recall several discussions regarding the REPAIR of the roof at W&M Hall to be followed by the REPLACEMENT of the inside ceiling. I suspect that replacing the ceiling tiles with new ones would be far more cost effective than taking the old tiles down, cleaning them and then reinstalling them; after all, much of the mold would be on the top side of the ceiling tiles.

For the previous two summers, there has been exterior scaffolding around W&M Hall to enable them to repair the exterior roof - this job appears now to be accomplished.

We'll know Kaplan's finally arrived to the big time when:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z14YAtAdjU

Grandpas gone wild......

Saw it with my own eyes about a week ago and, in fact, someone had posted a photo on facebook awhile back.

I saw on tribeathletics Instagram a few days back a picture of the new ceiling. Along with having the floor refinished, the ceiling has been painted black. In addition to not breathing mold spores, the black ceiling is a decent enhancement to the game experience, IMO.

(07-26-2014 10:54 PM)WM_Destro Wrote:  I saw on tribeathletics Instagram a few days back a picture of the new ceiling. Along with having the floor refinished, the ceiling has been painted black. In addition to not breathing mold spores, the black ceiling is a decent enhancement to the game experience, IMO.

Didn't we just install a brand new floor in The Kap three or four years ago?? How often does a Basketball court floor require "refinishing" ? Does any body know??

(07-26-2014 10:54 PM)WM_Destro Wrote:  I saw on tribeathletics Instagram a few days back a picture of the new ceiling. Along with having the floor refinished, the ceiling has been painted black. In addition to not breathing mold spores, the black ceiling is a decent enhancement to the game experience, IMO.

Ceiling looks great!!!

http://instagram.com/p/q2JzT5O_17/?modal=true

(07-27-2014 09:47 AM)62Indian Wrote:  Didn't we just install a brand new floor in The Kap three or four years ago?? How often does a Basketball court floor require "refinishing" ? Does any body know??

Every year, per the instagram.