Chapin Hall Room 17 is just another brick in the wall again.

Facilities Management workers on Tuesday morning filled the 6-by-4 foot section of missing plaster in the room and will repaint the area in about 24 or 48 hours when the plaster dries, said Asst. Director for Facilities Management Operations Lonnie Williams.

Williams said Facilities Management first sent a painter to the room Friday morning but the job, like the hole, was too big. Although the original maintenance complaint said cracks in the paint needed to be fixed, the plaster actually had crumbled.

So, on Friday afternoon a painter and plasterer removed the loose material from the wall and told a resident of the room they would return Monday to cover the exposed wood, Williams said. Thus, the hole.

The plasterer was unavailable Monday, Williams said, so he returned the next day.

“It’s not unusual for plaster to separate from its backing,” Williams said. “It just turned into more of a repair than was originally reported to us.”

At 10 a.m. Friday, two workers came to the room to fix the cracks in the paint. But by 4 p.m., when the residents returned to their room, the crack had turned into a 4-foot-wide, quarter-inch-deep hole, once the plaster was removed.

The residents, Weinberg freshman Paul Kofoedand Music freshman Brian Viliunas, lived with the hole over the weekend, but Facilities Management began repairing the eyesore Tuesday afternoon.

“It was just a bit of a surprise,” Kofoed said.