Cabinets galore!!

Almost ready for the counter top.

Wall ovens and cooktop will be on this wall.

Space for the dishwasher. Sink will be on the left, exhaust fan (already installed) on the right.

 

The cabinet installers have been working hard all day, but they have a lot of cabinets to place. They are concentrating on the kitchen today and tomorrow, then will move on to the restrooms. They know what they are doing and I think we will be pleased with the results. We actually have locking doors and drawers this time around.

 

   I'm so thankful that we finished the painting on Sunday. I can't imagine having to tape and paint around all of the cabinets and counter tops. Actually, I can imagine it. That's why I'm so grateful Wayside folks got the job done.

 

Painting a plenty!

Kitchen is painted! Bring on the cabinets!

The lighting doesn't do it justice, but here is another part of the kitchen.

Women's restroom painted. Yes, there will be wainscoting on the bottom.

A couple of weeks ago, folks at Wayside gathered to begin painting the exterior soffit of the renovation project. This last Friday, Saturday and Sunday, we rallied to get the interior in order. Many people with many rollers (and brushes) primed and painted. When Sunday evening had rolled around (pun intended) we had:

     Completed the kitchen and the restrooms.

     Primed everything.

     Put a first coat of finish paint on areas that needed it--Fellowship Hall and hallways.

 

   The drywall folks will be back on Tuesday to texture areas of the Memorial Lounge and the Nursery ceiling. That will have to be primed before we start with a finish coat.

 

   We still need to put a second coat of paint on the front soffit, then we can paint the exterior body of the renovation. The back is ready to be painted.

 

  There is more painting ahead of us, but we did a great job of getting things ready for cabinets to go into the kitchen and restrooms.

 

 



Muddy Monday

Taping and mudding on Fellowship Hall wall.

New door and mudding in kitchen.

More mudding in kitchen with drying fan.

New door in back hallway. Exterior painting continues. The "yellow" is the
prime coat, not the finish color.

 

We passed the drywall nailing inspection last Friday, so the taping and mudding began today.

They brought in fans to help with the drying process. The seams are being mudded first then the "nail" holes (they are actually drywall screws) will be filled. I'm not sure how many layers of mud they put on before it is considered complete.

 

   The soffit on the back side now has two coats and we can begin painting the siding. We still need a second coat of soffit paint on the front. The interior beams continue to be a project of touching up. There is a coat of paint on the major sections, but it take a tall ladder or scaffold to reach some of the detail work.

 

   Come this weekend, we can probably use all the painters we can get--inside and out. While I was painting on Sunday evening, some of the Marshall Island fellows volunteered to stop by this weekend to help us. That will be great! Kommol tada! (thank you).

More Painting to Come

Our doors have been re-hung.

Siding is going up.

  Today HHJ is covering the Tyvek with our new siding. The Hardie board is already primed, so once we get two coats of paint on the soffit, we can put a first coat of body paint on the siding. We have a crew of four this morning working on the soffit paint.

   The framing inspector did not show up yesterday, so maybe today. Once that is done, the insulation can be installed.

   By Friday afternoon, the temporary phone lines should disappear and we should have internet access at several points around the building and the Chapel.

   Let's hear it for Stepping Ahead!

Picture up-date

Inside Fellowship Hall--filling the gap.

New doorway from nursery to playground.

New sidewalk to back classrooms.

New sidewalk on Chapel side of Fellowship Hall.

New entry walk from parking lot to Fellowship Hall.

New windows and ready for siding.

Another view of a new window.

   Sorry that it has been awhile since the last up-date, but things have been happening around here. When I haven't been busy with pastoral things, I've been trying to help paint, along with many other Wayside folks. To date, we have primed the interior and exterior. Mostly a first coat of paint on the front soffit and we are making headway on the back.

   The wood/glass door from the Fellowship Hall to the parking lot has been re-installed. The interior beams have mostly received a first coat of paint. The smoke alarm system is being wired, along with telephone and data lines.

   Insulation was delivered today and the drywall should be delivered on Friday. They will start dry walling on Monday. Somewhere around the 24th or so, we will need to make a concerted effort on interior painting. In the meantime, we need to get two coats of paint on the soffits before we can begin painting the siding. The siding will pre-primed, so that will save one step.

When it rains, they pour--some of it

Topping off the retaining wall.

From truck to form.

It's Thursday, it's May and it's rainy. That didn't stop with pouring of at least some of the concrete. Sidewalks were scheduled to be poured, but it is too wet for that. The workers did go ahead and pour the retaining wall. It will be easier to keep the water off this form than the sidewalk. It looks like sidewalks will go in next week.

 

  At Tuesday night's Men's Group, we did our usual "walk-about". Eric J. discovered what he perceived as a problem in the area leading from Fellowship Hall to the bridge going to the Chapel. There just didn't seem to be enough space for the door to open and people on the sidewalk (when it is poured) to get through. In other words, a real bottle neck. We looked at the plans and discovered that the present configuration was altered from the original plans. Talking to the contractor, that will be resolved and we will get our 5' sidewalk all the way along the back.

Less Dramatic

Form for retaining wall between Fellowship Hall and parking lot.

Car decking on the roof.

 

The construction this has been less dramatic than some other weeks, but still "Stepping Ahead".

As you can see from the top picture, they have built the forms for the retaining wall that will abut the sidewalk between the Fellowship Hall and parking lot. The crew is expecting to pour concrete this Thursday (5/23), which means no access to the Chapel for at least a day. It will be ready for the AA meeting on Friday night.

 

   Workers have started to lay the car decking on the roof. This will match up with the interior ceiling and extend to the edge of the roof on the outside. The windows are still scheduled to be installed on Tuesday, May 28th, after Memorial Day weekend.