A quieter day today, Tom calls it a 'soft start' which is a nice official way of saying that things are quiet. For a soft start they have achieved a lot really - Andrew comments a proper 'soft start' means the builders phoning to say sorry, they have'nt finished the last job yet and they'll come 2 weeks on Monday!
Baz and Joe, another colleague who has come today walk backwards and forwards with bits of the quiet room and soon its gone (see photo) and the church has been returned to its original state down below. Even with the scaffolding in place it looks great - much bigger feel and more open to the street.
We offer the builders lunch, leftovers from a Borough Council conference we catered for today and this is gratefully accepted - every little helps to build a good relationship.
Later Tom comes through wanting to know about a few cables that are in the sanctuary - can he pull them out in preparation for taking out the radiators? It's typical of Tom that he would ask first rather than just do it and say sorry after which many would do. Quickly Andrew identifies one cable as the hearing loop, which can come out, one as the internet connection to the AV desk which we roll up and tape out of the way. This leaves one, a scraggy moth eaten looking thing, covered with what looks like 10 coats of paint. It ends at a very tatty junction box in the wall. It would be so easy just to say 'get rid' but Andrew wisely tests the wire to see if it is carrying current and it is - we follow it back and through a very circuitous route it becomes clear that yes, it is the phone line enabling all our communication. Best leave it alone then.
Andrew and Tom chat over previous refurbs and Tom is impressed that last time out church members painted the roof themselves. Its clear that Tom has an eye for detail and wanting the place to look its very best, for example hes going to price up a set of matching mouldings to go with those lost when the partition wall went up.
What is also clear is that below a relatively calm surface a lot of people are paddling hard to keep the project on track for completion in 10 weeks. A lot of thing need to fall in to place if all is to be completed on time (e.g. lighting equipment could take 8 weeks to come but the scaffolding can't go until it has and if the scaffolding is in place then the prayer rooms can't be built and so on) and it would be good to pray that what needs to happen, will happen, when it needs to happen!
Tom clears up and the day ends.
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