About 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning after Men's Fellowship, several of us headed over to the church to tear the particle board off the old Bruce Hall floor. We arrived to find that Bram and Paul had nearly finished the job.
Still, there were plywood sheets that needed ripping up. Each, it turned out, were held down with 4,037 (almost) deck nails and, in some cases, glue, too. Larry and Eric attacked these with gusto. I quickly managed to attack only with gasps.
To hold all the debris, Warren added sideboards to his trailer that were twice again as high as you see in the slideshow below.
To return to the particle board, for a moment: Each board was held down with a couple of dozen long staples that stayed in the floor when the soggy boards were removed. Each staple had to be removed or hammered in one by one. Quite a mystical, medieval task. By the time you stood up, you couldn't tell what you'd done. No proof of accomplishment at all. Just sore knees.
Meanwhile, Steve M. and his framing crew were starting to put the first lumber in place. That will lead to new subfloors in just a few days.
A few photos:
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