Stucco Exterior Is Being Applied

The stucco exterior wall surface for the new parish hall is being applied by contractors. The work started just before Thanksgiving, and will involve three separate coats on the walls. Test patches have been made on the side of the choir room as part of the process of determining the appearance of the final coat of stucco. The round hole in the upper part of the wall is for the later installation of a stained glass window that had been removed from the church in the expansion done about 50 years ago; it was discovered in storage and will be a focal point for the new parish hall.

Kit Cone

Temporary Parking Lot Improved

The temporary parking area to the rear of the Hayes House garage has been improved through the recycling of pavement material from the church's main parking lot. The top layer of the paving at the main lot was removed by a large milling machine, to provide a rough surface to which the new blacktop would adhere. All that milled material was taken to the Hayes House garage parking area, and spread over the crushed stone which had been the former surface. Then a roller compacted the milled material into the stone, greatly improving the surface of the parking lot. While not a permanent pavement, the use of the "free" paving material is expected to provide a workable surface for a couple of years.

Kit Cone

New Water Cooler Installed

Remember the posting on October 9, when the old water fountain had been removed? It had sat in the wall outside the door to the choir room for years without functioning. Now the new unit is in place! With a working water fountain, there is no need to waste paper coffee cups to get a drink of water. The new water fountain is one of many improvements to the existing church building that are part of the construction of the new church hall.

Kit Cone

Our New Parking Lot!

The paving and striping of the expanded parking area behind the church has been completed! The lot will be opened on Sunday, November 16, so that parishioners arriving for services will have plenty of parking space.

Kit Cone

It's Not Paint; It's Waterproofing

Why did "they" paint the choir room green? No, that's not ordinary paint: it's a water proofing material that has been applied to the brick exterior of the earlier addition to the church. Later, a wire lath will be applied to the brick, and then a stucco finish will be pressed into the lath. Several samples of stucco finish color have been put on the west side of the choir room for consideration.

Kit Cone

The Parking Lot is Being Paved!

A very visible sign of real progress with the addition to the church took form on Tuesday, November 11, when the paving of the newly expanded parking lot began. In the photograph above, a paving crew operates a bright yellow paving machine, while a dump truck full of hot asphalt slowly dumps its load into the paver to be spread on the parking lot. Hand tools are used to make the surface uniform across the joints between courses, and then a big power roller compacts the surface.

Kit Cone

A Tantalizing Glimpse . . .

On Monday, November 3, the boarded-up doorway between the existing church and the new parish hall was open for a short time to allow workers to get access to an electric outlet in the hallway by the kitchen. The photograph shows the opening, which used to be the main entrance to the church, between the kitchen and the choir room. This will again be the main entrance when the construction is completed, except that people will enter the building through one of the two big doors on the side of the parish hall. From there they will go through a wide hallway into the doorway shown above, and into the familiar part of the church.

Kit Cone

Slate Roof Being Installed

Putting on a slate roof is no job for a day laborer. It's very easy to break a slate, and the material is expensive. Slate is being used on the new parish hall not only because it will match the existing roof on the church, but also because it is exceedingly durable and long- lasting.

Kit Cone

Columbarium Patio Is Taking Shape

The retaining wall for the new columbarium patio outside the parish hall was poured on Saturday, November 1. A transit-mix concrete truck, at far left, emptied its contents into the concrete pump shown in the middle of the photograph, and it was pumped up and over the archway of pipe to the section of the wall where masons were working. The patio will form a physical link between the parish hall and the rear yard and columbarium.

Kit Cone