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October 2 - Meetings, Grading and Pews

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Another Status Meeting in the Church - A week ago Sunday the second status update meeting was held at the church. While there were some assembled pews, they were all in the sanctuary, and not in the dining hall where the meeting convened. So, everyone that wanted to sit had to bring their own chair. In the picture, Bob is standing but not because he failed to bring a chair. He wanted attention so he stood up in the front to give his status update. After Sam reported on the finances discussion ensued about whether or not to increase our self imposed debt ceiling. While the church could be 'completed' without the increase, some desired items like an epoxy sealed kitchen floor would have to be deferred. The congregation agreed to up the debt limit. Sam stated that the bank is fine with the new debt ceiling. Sam also said the projection stand in the picture is only temporary. With the current projected spending, we will still not have a completed kitchen so the eagle-eyed shoppers ...
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March 4 - Door Scavenging and Grinding Through the Siding

Phil got a lead on some doors for the inside of the church.  There was a catch -- they were already installed in a business office somewhere and they were destined for the dumpster.  They had to be removed before the demolition team arrived, so Phil recruited a door-scavenging team of volunteers and off they went.

Here, Ken removes door hardware before taking the door off its hinges.



The scavengers with doors on the way to the truck:  Ryan, Mark, and Ken, with Phil the photographer.



Throughout the week, crew 3 continued with siding the back side of the church.  By Saturday afternoon, the east gable end was covered - here, Brian Kallinen and Kevin Moll show us how it's done.



While the boys worked high on the east gable, most of the others toiled out back on the north gable wall.




A cheerful Markus loads nails in the siding nailer...


...and then nails on another batten, while Courtland assists.





While siding work goes on outside, a few guys prepare for the concrete floor grinding in the sanctuary.  Recall the blue duct buried under the concrete slab?  It pokes up here and there in strategic places, to some day provide the sanctuary with conditioned air.  However, sticking up above the slab like it does, it will get in the way of the floor grinder.  The Man Formerly In The Yellow Hat But Now In The Gray Hat is here cutting the duct flush with the top surface of the slab.


Following Bob along the wall was Daniel, who was cutting chunks of foam to fill the new opening in the floor to keep the dust and dirt out of the duct. 
   
 

Matt tapes the ceiling above Daniel.


This past week we had a new visitor who brought a concrete floor grinder in tow.  Here is Dave McAdams grinding a small section of floor in the kitchen. 



State regulations don't allow the floor in the kitchen to remain as plain concrete, polished or not, but in the meantime, it can serve as a sample palette of grinding options.  Dave prepared two samples for us to consider, which I went to inspect on Saturday. 

Here it is -- the square section of floor below represents the two samples.  Since it had a slight coating of dust on it, I swept off the right-hand side of the samples for a better look.  Exhibit A is closest to the camera, Exhibit B on the far side, by the ladder.


Here is a closeup of Exhibit A.  This sample sort of looks like sand, if you look closely, and is quite uniform in color and appearance.  This took 4x as long to achieve as Exhibit B.



And here is Exhibit B.  This one still has the troweling marks of the power trowels and the color varies quite a bit, from shades of gray to white. 




















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