Work While the Sun Shines

Ron Peterson, on the right, has been here all week as our volunteer electric an. When part of the wall was removed, they found damp wood and mold, so Liseli and Ron are conferring with Pete Nelson, Jr. over the problem. You can see the bricks of the Common Room fireplace which is on the other side of this wall.



A new view from the 2nd floor of the new Bugg House.



Joining the two roof sections.



Trimming the roof decking the hard way.



The ACC is ready and waiting for the Friends who are coming to volunteer this weekend.

Deck Beginnings and Neighbors

The wonderful machine made it so much easier. A huge thanks to our neighbors, Lynn Cross and Ted Minor for the loan of this machine as well as to Sean who so ably handled it!

Margaret Lew is seen here, working on the ramp that attaches to the deck on the north side of the ACC dining room.

Erin Clark weighing in with a sono tube which will hold the cement.

Liseli making sure the deck supports are level.

Our Youth Directors, Mike and Chris, with one batch of the 1,200 pounds of cement mix used to fill the post holes. A huge thanks to QIVC for the loan of their cement mixer.

Here's the 1st tube done.

Liseli, Chris and Mike working on the next tube. All this is in preparation for this coming weekend when we'll have lots of volunteers here for our work-on-the-ACC weekend.

The ACC Chimney Rises

Last Friday and Saturday, the mason extended the chimney. This chimney is used by the fireplace in the Common Room of the ACC.



The weather continued to be perfect!




This photo was taken from the tractor shed.




A job well done.

Summer Days

Week 12 was sunny most of the week as seen by this photo of Lea Pond early one morning

Putting on the fascia board and the strip facing for the lower Bugg House roof.

The lifting of the first pieces of roof decking. Good thing he likes heights!

Enclosing the chimney casing. The mason arrives today to begin the chimney extension.

More decking on its way up and onto the rafters.

Days end -- roof enclosed -- good job done and no rain!

Rafters over the Sunroom

Monday was mostly a washout. Here's the Bugg House waiting for the rain to stop

CNS was able to work for an hour this morning, then the rains came. Aren't the ruts impressive?

Finally, more rafters -- this time over the sunroom.

Tiling "green"

Liseli Haines, Tamara Gohean and Arthur Smith scraping the old grout off the tiles that had been carefully removed from the Bugg House bathroom and the "big toilet." It was quite a messy job as you may be able to see. Other F/friends helped to scrape at throughout the coming week. We found this "mindless" work a wonderful time to visit. Liseli commented that it reminded her of a quilting bee -- lots of stories shared.



After F/friends went home from the weekend and more tiles were cleaned, Liseli began to create a pattern for the tiles.



She's almost half way done.

Finished product before the grouting. Doesn't it brighten up the room? A thank you to all who helped make this happen -- staff and volunteers alike.

End of week 11 - more rafters

CNS worked between rainstorms. Yes, we actually had some sunny hours!

CNS had been hoping for 3 days straight without rain but they've given up and have decided to build over the existing roof and then removed the old one where they'll connect.

This shot was taken from the Pitt Hall Rd side looking over the flat roof of the dining room.

This morning's view from the 2nd floor of the new Bugg House.

Rafters for the Bugg House Roof

This was taken Sunday afternoon. The ACC seems to be waiting -- notice it's going to rain.




CNS was able to work a few hours on Monday -- enough to get the rafters started.



Tuesday afternoon -- the rains waited until 3 p.m.




Wednesday morning. Yay, sunshine.

Working Inside & Out

While the new Bugg House is being built, Liseli is working on other sections of the ACC. Yesterday, Matthew Corson-Finnerty and Liseli were in the upstairs big bathroom, getting it ready for the new plumbing fixtures.

Peter Nelson checking out the architect's plans while the 2nd story continues to take shape.

At last, we can walk out the door in room 3 onto the new 2nd floor.

Thursday afternoon

How about those angles?

Week 10 - walls & 2nd floor

Monday afternoon

The section where the 2nd floor is can be seen now.

working on the 2nd floor




Tuesday afternoon's sun shines on the new bare face of the ACC Bugg House.






This is what we saw at 10 a.m. today! The 2nd story walls are going up.

A good week

This is what the ACC looks like after 4 good days (no rain) this week.



My cat, Victor Ivan, is in the foreground, checking out the site.



This is looking in through the south bedroom window towards the sun porch



This is the same room, looking from the west. The room is starting to look recognizable.




The end of week 9!