Friday, 8th April, 2011
Moving along swiftly
We had a building committee meeting last night and decided that it would be good to at least start the meeting at the new building. With the hour change and the fact that we met quite early we were able to have a good look round. This first photo is of the work that has been done by Christian - he has plastered two of the bare, ugly columns in the old building. This is the one in the room that will be the Sunday School classroom. Very smooth.
Last weekend the church youth spent the day working at the building. They did a lot of cleaning up and also built the wall for the kitchen counter. They've done a really good job. Someone, can't quite remember who it was, said they'd send me some photos of the youth at work so that I can put them up here.
Not exactly an artistic photo but I quite liked the look of all the wiring that has been done in what will eventually be the kitchen. These gray corrugated tubes snake all over the building at the moment. Once the concrete floor is poured we will see most of them no more.
In the next week or so the architect is going to be visiting the site along with the different builders that have done for the construction work. They will be looking to see what bits of work need to be finished up or even re-done. They're going to have quite a lot to do but this quite normal. The comment was made that the only building site where everything works perfectly is one where you have the contractors being supervised by an overseer and then you have overseers overseeing the overseers. I guess that would get expensive.
A final look at the hall before we made our way back up to the school for the rest of the meeting. We still had to discuss the finances and how we are planning to move along. Once we have paid for everything that has been done so far, and have also paid for the floors to be done we will have about 27,000 euros in hand. With that money we will make a start on the heating - at least having all the pipes laid so that the concrete floor can be poured.
After that we're going to be getting the insulation done on the old building. It seems that we will be able to get financial help from the regional government for the work. Before that is done though we have to have an Energy Audit. That should be happening in the next few weeks.
Overall things seem to be picking up pace and getting our timings right over the next month or so is going to be quite important. Once the insulation is done and the floors are poured inside everything will look so much more "done". We have calculated that to finish the project we will need to find, roughly, another 50,000 euros. That doesn't feel like too much given how much we've already spent, but we're still wondering how to go about it. If you'd like to help we have a Donations page that gives details of how you can contribute to our project. Thank you.
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