2 Days to go:
Dust Factor: Gobi
Tradesmen attending: High
Ratio of Vans to men: Very High
Vague Factor: High
Hopeometer -through the floor
Plenty going on but still plenty to do too. The AV desk has arrived - enormous. Truly the AV team will be kings of all they survey.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
April 29th post 3
Carpet fitter is really cracking on (see Webcam)- Hopeometer rises to 'some'.
New doors from the hallway outside the church hall in to the main space are installed and look great.
Toddlers have gone so no dange rof them getting stuck, but Band A are coming in tonight for a rehearsal....
Still loads to do though.
New doors from the hallway outside the church hall in to the main space are installed and look great.
Toddlers have gone so no dange rof them getting stuck, but Band A are coming in tonight for a rehearsal....
Still loads to do though.
April 29th - post 2
The first carpet tiles go down. No toddlers stuck...yet, though Sarah Jane Creighton made a determined effort (it took 4 adults to restrain her) - well done Sarah Jane, though Arun Hodgson still retains the 'nearly' crown.
Carpet tiles go down, hopeometer goes up.
Carpet tiles go down, hopeometer goes up.
Weds 29th April
If ever there was a morning for a toddler to finally breach the security cordon this would be it.
The carpet fitters are in the process of covering the floor in glue which dries to a very tacky finish - perfect for acting like a giant flypaper and marooning many toddlers. Look out for small bumps under the tiles.
Dust quotient - Kalahari
Vague look factor - high
Hopeometer - low - still look like plenty to do at T-3.
The carpet fitters are in the process of covering the floor in glue which dries to a very tacky finish - perfect for acting like a giant flypaper and marooning many toddlers. Look out for small bumps under the tiles.
Dust quotient - Kalahari
Vague look factor - high
Hopeometer - low - still look like plenty to do at T-3.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
April 28th
Welcome to T-3
9am - Dust Factor very high, lots of men in the place but all looking a little vague. Hopeometer falls away.
10.45am - Carpet fitters arrive - hopeometer rises slightly.
11.30am - Carpet fitters begin actual work - hopeometer rises further.
Incidentally,hearing them speak carpet fitters are very definitely from West Country. Consider putting them and the Boys from the Black Country into a room together to discuss the project and stand back to watch.
9am - Dust Factor very high, lots of men in the place but all looking a little vague. Hopeometer falls away.
10.45am - Carpet fitters arrive - hopeometer rises slightly.
11.30am - Carpet fitters begin actual work - hopeometer rises further.
Incidentally,hearing them speak carpet fitters are very definitely from West Country. Consider putting them and the Boys from the Black Country into a room together to discuss the project and stand back to watch.
Monday, April 27, 2009
27th April - 2.30pm
Recieve email suggesting quite strongly that the carpet fitters will be in on Thursday. HOPE-O-METER rises from 'no hope' to 'faint hope'
April 27th
Welcome to the dustbowl. Finishing off means a lot of rubbing down of paint, various carpentry jobs etc etc and so dust is everywhere, and carpets are all covered in bootprints made up of small parts of every building substance known to man - the CSI computers would blow up - they could'nt handle the number of traces. If you look carefully all the boot prints have a little logo and the words
'proudly made in Brum by Brummies' visible - Clear clue to the owner.
Its going to be a rollercoater ride to get finished this week and we'll monitor that with Wycliffe Refurb Blogs very own 'Hope-O-Meter'
MONDAYS READING, with 4.5 working days to go: No hope whatosever
'proudly made in Brum by Brummies' visible - Clear clue to the owner.
Its going to be a rollercoater ride to get finished this week and we'll monitor that with Wycliffe Refurb Blogs very own 'Hope-O-Meter'
MONDAYS READING, with 4.5 working days to go: No hope whatosever
Thursday, April 23, 2009
April 23rd post 2
Wycliffe Refurb Blog went in to the sanctuary and it really really is like changing rooms now - there were 10 men all doing different things very quickly in slightly stressy way (but clearly no more than one task at a time - right ladies?) - it was good to see a nail gun getting used - always a staple tool in Handy Andy's toolbox and essential weapon in creating MDF sculptures - with us its just laying down the ply skim on which the carpet tiles will be laid.
April 23rd
Ah, Sunny April Days and all those distinctive sounds and smells.
The sound of revving diesel engines as yet another builders van squeezes in to the car park (the finishing of our project seems to demand numerous single occupancy vans)
The scrape of chairs as they are brought out for al fresco tea breaks. Tea Breaks?! Get back in there and get working!
The happy clink of scaffolding pole on collecting lorry. Collecting lorry? Scaffolding poles? THE SCAFFOLDING IS GONE! ALL GONE!
This is probably the biggest pointer yet that things are looking good for May 1st handover and very, very encouraging.
Meanwhile, in the background chairgate rumbles on as we pursue our agressive strategy of acquiring 240 different sample chairs from different suppliers so we don't have to actually pay for any. More news later.......
The sound of revving diesel engines as yet another builders van squeezes in to the car park (the finishing of our project seems to demand numerous single occupancy vans)
The scrape of chairs as they are brought out for al fresco tea breaks. Tea Breaks?! Get back in there and get working!
The happy clink of scaffolding pole on collecting lorry. Collecting lorry? Scaffolding poles? THE SCAFFOLDING IS GONE! ALL GONE!
This is probably the biggest pointer yet that things are looking good for May 1st handover and very, very encouraging.
Meanwhile, in the background chairgate rumbles on as we pursue our agressive strategy of acquiring 240 different sample chairs from different suppliers so we don't have to actually pay for any. More news later.......
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
April 22nd
Things are going full pelt this morning. The floor is fully laid and the plyboard 'top' is being laid down ready for the carpet tiles to go down. There is still plenty to do but you can sense a project entering its final phase. We have'nt quite yet reached that stage in 'Changing Rooms' where they play the stressy music and everyone runs around daft throwing scatter cushions right left and centre but its coming...........
Friday, April 17, 2009
Friday 17th April - breaking news
One significant event follows another - as I type, the marroon railings round the balcony and the yellow 'eggs' are being sprayed over. The 'Changing rooms era' is laid to rest!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
April 16th
Work carries on - there a lot of vans turning up every morning now and we are definitely benefitting from our builders flexibility in supplying resource as and when it is needed.
Turning back to the pulpit for a second when it was removed it became clear that a false floor had been fitted in the pulpit at some point - basically a minister needed a 'boost' at some point to enable him to see his flock over the lectern. The builders hypothesised about the Victorians being small of stature and doing the work but Wycliffe refurbblog points the finger at a more recent occupant of the pulpit..........
Significant event today: The floor is complete again - all boarded out - which is great - no more wobbling over the joists.
The platform is nearly complete and it looks great! The builders have taken a lot of trouble with this and the increased space will serve any number of Nativity Angels well for the coming years - it is exciting to wonder at all the use that will be made of it. It should make baptisms a lot less stressful - no more feeling that small frisson of excitement....' if that bloke at the microphone takes one step back........'
Turning back to the pulpit for a second when it was removed it became clear that a false floor had been fitted in the pulpit at some point - basically a minister needed a 'boost' at some point to enable him to see his flock over the lectern. The builders hypothesised about the Victorians being small of stature and doing the work but Wycliffe refurbblog points the finger at a more recent occupant of the pulpit..........
Significant event today: The floor is complete again - all boarded out - which is great - no more wobbling over the joists.
The platform is nearly complete and it looks great! The builders have taken a lot of trouble with this and the increased space will serve any number of Nativity Angels well for the coming years - it is exciting to wonder at all the use that will be made of it. It should make baptisms a lot less stressful - no more feeling that small frisson of excitement....' if that bloke at the microphone takes one step back........'
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Were Back! Day 66 April 14th
Don't fall over backwards - we are back and blogging!
Well first off apologies for the long,long absence. This was due to a number of factors:
i) I was on holiday last week
ii)Its been fairly busy and Blog got pushed to the bottom of the pile
iii) I have learned that if one is blogging regularly then if momentum is lost then it can be hard to get it moving again
iv) At the point in March where we stopped there were issues with the Blog and photos being somewhat turned against us (in a minor way) by forces outside the church and we took the foot off the pedal marked 'blog' at that point then see (iii).
Anyhow, so much has happened in this last 4 weeks that WycliffeRefurbBlog feels a little like its creeping in to the start of a party after all the hard work has been done.
I did say 'start' of a party - we are not quite there yet, but at the last meeting an exit date of 1st May was given by the builders and it looked like they meant it so that is very exciting as that date looms large now.
But what of progress:
Well firstly, the pulpit. That sucker is well and truly fixed in place via a substantial steel beam - it is going nowhere fast for many a long year and we can rest assured that generations coming after us won't have a leaning pulpit to worry about. Having in completed this project so throughly, this is the point that we discover the rampant woodworm........only joking.
The good news is that as the pulpit was fixed, so the platform grew up round about it. The builders put a lot of skill and effort in to building it. It is substantially higher (and wider) than the old platform and so it has taken the edge off the pulpits height. Still the same but it does'nt feel like it. As and when things shake down we can look at screening (WITHOUT fixing them to the pulpit - yes you, you know who you are - no need to worry on that score) the pulpit to bring it more in to line with the rest of the room.
There was a lot of subterranean work carried out to fix the pulpit and sort out the electrics and a lot of conversations carried out, to the uninitiated, with the pulpit itself as various electricians etc asked questions from the depths. In certain cultures the pulpit would certainly have been a candidate for excorcism. The voices........
Back later. Though we probably said that on March 13th.
Well first off apologies for the long,long absence. This was due to a number of factors:
i) I was on holiday last week
ii)Its been fairly busy and Blog got pushed to the bottom of the pile
iii) I have learned that if one is blogging regularly then if momentum is lost then it can be hard to get it moving again
iv) At the point in March where we stopped there were issues with the Blog and photos being somewhat turned against us (in a minor way) by forces outside the church and we took the foot off the pedal marked 'blog' at that point then see (iii).
Anyhow, so much has happened in this last 4 weeks that WycliffeRefurbBlog feels a little like its creeping in to the start of a party after all the hard work has been done.
I did say 'start' of a party - we are not quite there yet, but at the last meeting an exit date of 1st May was given by the builders and it looked like they meant it so that is very exciting as that date looms large now.
But what of progress:
Well firstly, the pulpit. That sucker is well and truly fixed in place via a substantial steel beam - it is going nowhere fast for many a long year and we can rest assured that generations coming after us won't have a leaning pulpit to worry about. Having in completed this project so throughly, this is the point that we discover the rampant woodworm........only joking.
The good news is that as the pulpit was fixed, so the platform grew up round about it. The builders put a lot of skill and effort in to building it. It is substantially higher (and wider) than the old platform and so it has taken the edge off the pulpits height. Still the same but it does'nt feel like it. As and when things shake down we can look at screening (WITHOUT fixing them to the pulpit - yes you, you know who you are - no need to worry on that score) the pulpit to bring it more in to line with the rest of the room.
There was a lot of subterranean work carried out to fix the pulpit and sort out the electrics and a lot of conversations carried out, to the uninitiated, with the pulpit itself as various electricians etc asked questions from the depths. In certain cultures the pulpit would certainly have been a candidate for excorcism. The voices........
Back later. Though we probably said that on March 13th.
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