Construction Update

Construction Update – 10/17/07

Kitchen: Despite the prior report that the kitchen may be available to the end of October or beyond, the kitchen will be vacated effective Monday, October 22. To make this possible, the following will be accomplished between now and then:

1. LOGOS supplies and other kitchen items will be removed and most kitchenware will be placed in storage. Bertha McClintock will coordinate the packing/storage. If you will be using the downstairs kitchen, please tour the downstairs kitchen in advance for available supplies, as they will be limited.
2. The following appliances will be moved to the downstairs kitchen: both refrigerators, microwave oven, white stove. The coffee maker has already been moved.
3. The base cabinet next to the white stove will be moved to the downstairs kitchen.
4. The locked communion cabinet will be moved to the back corner of Fellowship Hall.
5. The move of appliances and cabinets will be accomplished by the contractor.
6. The move will affect shelter meals. Linda O’Meara will coordinate any new arrangements, etc.
7. The Korean church is being notified.
Bathrooms: The renovation of the bathrooms in the administration wing has begun and therefore they are closed. New bathrooms will be constructed in the vacated kitchen area. This will require the construction of a temporary corridor from the gathering area to the parlor, effectively dividing the current hallway into two corridors, providing access to the staff offices, the choir room, and the parlor. There will be no need to vacate the staff offices; however there may be a brief need to have access to the offices when new HVAC registers are installed.

The bathrooms at the entrance to Williamson Hall and lower Williamson Hall are newly renovated and are available.

Construction Update: October 6

Construction Update – October 6, 2007
This week Chamberlain Construction expects the two remaining walls of the Mission Hall basement to be completed. Next week, drains and other plumbing should be installed in the floor of the basement --- followed the next week by the floor slab. Then work can begin on the steel framing. Next week they also expect to begin grading the front hill where Richard Mudd’s house used to be. We may also have some trees removed, at the direction of the County Arborist, next around the picnic area and children’s play area as well as in the area near the intersection of the frontage road and Elizabeth Lane. Chamberlain will inform Dick Ernst about the schedule to remove trees in the children’s play area.

The Upper and Lower Williamson Hall bathrooms are nearing completion. When those bathrooms are finished, demolition will begin on the bathrooms in the Administration Wing. This work, anticipated next week, will start with the demolition of the west wall of the kitchen. You may have noticed that the large refrigerator has been moved out from the wall. A temporary wall has been erected behind the refrigerator to provide access for the workers, separate from the kitchen, so we can keep the kitchen functional. In the next few days, an electrician will install a temporary 220 volt line in the downstairs kitchen so we can move the coffee maker and a stove (later) down there. Demolition of the main kitchen probably will begin in about two months.

Within the next few days, a subcontractor will remove bat guano from the attic. Other overhead work in the church includes plumbing and preparation for the new HVAC system. Three new HVAC units will be installed on the roof within the next two weeks. They won’t be hooked up for some time however. In the meantime we still have the old system working. We will probably not have heat in the Fellowship Hall about the first of November, so if needed, we will rent small heaters. We will have air and heat in the Sanctuary and Fellowship Hall through Oct. 19, the night of the organ concert.

About the middle of November, work should begin installing air ducts in the Administration Wing. Chamberlain will run a plastic curtain down the Administration hallway, with a narrow passage for the workers on the left side and a larger passage for access to the offices and the choir room on the right side. The first room to be worked on will be the Parlor, taking perhaps 2-3 days.

John, Carol and Daniel Miller completed the sidewalk to the new door in the Fellowship Hall. (Thank you, Millers!) Chamberlain’s project superintendent is doing everything he can to get us lights in the back parking lot.
In summary, there should be no significant disruption in church activities for the next several weeks. The construction company is very good at letting us know when something comes up.