Gutter all

There is a lot of work going on at the construction site now with workers everywhere you look. So much is going on, this post will have three slideshows with it. The first focuses on getting gutters and downspouts installed all the way around the building. This should help to dry out the building further. Getting the roof on helped, but rain has been running off the roof and back under the building. Not good. The gutters and downspouts will direct it into the storm drain system.



Next, we'll take a look at the construction and plumbing that's been done so far for the sprinkler system. Pipes have been pushed up from the utility basement through the floor of the men's restroom into the attic. From there they run to the attic of the Matthews Classroom Wing and out its hallway. No sprinkler heads have been installed yet.

Work also continues on installing heating ducts under the floors in various parts of the building.



Paul and Larry put two loads of scrap metal from the demolition into Larry's truck and took them to recyclers. One trip netted about $14, but the other returned more than $100 to the building fund. There's a nice frame on the outside door to what will be Pastor Steve's office.

The box for the new electric meter has been installed on the outside of the building. On the inside, in the kitchen storeroom, wires are arriving from all over the north side of the building at a couple of junction boxes. The junction box for the sanctuary had to be moved from the north to the south side of the audiovisual closet, because there were already so many pipes and ducts on the north side that the electrician could not get a conduit to it there.

Outside, much progress is being made installing siding. And the trees are blooming.