Sub flooring - week 17

Carpenters are working on framing details, so much of their work is hard to see for this week. Here's the visible ...



Cover plates for the toilets in the west big bathroom. Notice the new sub flooring that is over the framing.



Another view in the bathroom. New sub flooring and the 2 showers are in place now.

Draft Electrical Permit

Ron Peterson continues to work away at our electrical needs for the ACC. This is a photo of the radiant heating wires coming together near the sunroom (to the right).




Wiring coming from the 2nd floor to behind the Common Room chimney.





Ron pulling the wires in the west big bathroom




It's here! The draft electrical permit. Thanks a million, Ron.

Week 16 - running water to the 2nd floor

This is the view from the big toilet "west" towards the little bathroom. This new, big bathroom will have 2 showers and 3 toilets in it plus the sinks. Now to get the water from the well.








Herman, who is our sub-contractor for the plumbing, is connecting pipes for water to the 2nd floor of the ACC. He's in the dining room.









They decided to run the pipes through the ACC kitchen, through the wall to the left to the water tank.








Finished product. Now to put the jars back on the shelf.






Upstairs, the carpenters worked to make the little bathroom ready for the plumbing. They extended the left wall to the hallway, changing the doorway to room 1. The window view is towards the ultimate field.




The new bathtub in place!

Shingles, Windows & Pipes

Plumbing for the newly improving bathrooms upstairs.




Making ready for the windows.




This glass door is going into the sunroom.




The finished product in the bedrooms of the 1st floor new Bugg House.




Shingling the roof over the 1st floor of the Bugg House (where the new windows are)

Shingles done!

Getting the ACC ready for Planning weekend

This weekend the Powell House Committee took a couple of hours away from committee meetings to help get some rooms ready for the youth program's first conference next weekend -- Planning. Here is Zosia Raven and Aldona Januszkiewicz sweeping up after a rainstorm.

Chris DeRoller and Laura Higgins (in red) worked to get the library cleaner so that furniture from the game room as well as plumbing fixtures could be stored there for the 1st floor of the Bugg House.

Laura moved into the game room with her vacuum. Mike Clark is wiping down the furniture .

Lucas Braun, Kai Pisila, Lee Exman and Oliver Bacon moved the furniture into the library.

Now, the Common Room has been swept, thanks to Luas Braun.

Oliver Bacon and Lee Exman carry in one of the rugs for the Common Room.

After the rugs were in place, they tacked up plastic to keep the work dust out of the Common Room. Kai Pisila on lfet with Oliver Bacon looking out. Lee Exman is in the background.

The Common Room and the game room are now ready for the 8-12th graders who will be arriving on Friday. Pray for sunshine!

Some framing & plumbing - wk 14

After Labor Day, Mike Clark and Chris DeRoller continued to work on the deck. Here's Mike checking it out.




Chris showing Erin Clark how to use the drill.





The plumber started his work this week. This is the beginnings of the new bathrooms from the old.




Remember the removing of the old roof in room 3 last weekend? CNS came in and framed the bedrooms. Here are the rafters below the new & old roof.

The chimney is getting framed in, too.

Another crew was working on the corner where the new roof met the old.

After CNS left on Thursday, we put the tarp over the part of the roof that didn't have the snow shield since we knew that hurricane Hannah was coming this weekend.

Thursday was also Peter Nelson's 65th birthday. Chris baked him a cake and only frosted part of it to parallel the ACC renovations! And staff sang the Powell House "birthday song" to him, too. A good time was had by all.

Work on the ACC - part 6

Besides the deck, electricity, removing the old roof, getting rid of the mold (see other blogs), we also had F/friends getting some old Bugg House fixtures ready to go in the new building.

Anne Sombor, Shannon Young and Kathy Hinton working on more tiles for the bathrooms. These tiles were rescued from the old Bugg House and needed the old adhesive removed.

Erick Lawson wrestling with the old plumbing fixtures with May Lyle holding on.

left to right, back to front: Kathie Scanlon, Tanner Froats (blue hat), Carson Burns (in red), Audrey Froats, Carolyn Beer (in blue) with Maia Murdock showing off their clean tiles.

Faith Brzostoski and Jacky Burns cleaning a sink for re-use.

Chris DeRoller and May Lyle in a quiet moment.

Carson Burns and Tanner Froats with clean tiles.

There were over 50 people here last weekend helping the renovation of the ACC move along. Thank you, thank you all!

Work on the ACC - The Coming of the Deck

Last weekend another crew worked on the deck for the north side of the dining room of the ACC. It was definitely a community project as you can see from these photos.

This is what it looked like Saturday morning before the crew began. The upside down containers are covering the concrete posts that was poured the week before.

Stan Raven's tools of the trade.

Margaret Lew, our wonderfully gifted designer and Stan re-working the plans for the deck.

Several people took hoes and picks to lower the ground next to the building. Here's Anne Sombor working while Chris DeRoller encourages.

The deck will extend around the patio area toward Phil Perry's tree. Chris and Bing Rao are getting it ready so that the deck can be attached. Margaret Lew is showing Joseph McKenney-Barschall his next task while Tom Rothschild takes a break from doing electrical work

How many F/friends does it take to plan a deck?

Here's another crew creating the beams for the deck. Glen Bibler is closest to the camera with Bing next to him.

Joseph cutting corners (on purpose)!

Lucas Braun nailing the wood together. Kai Pisila is to the left, then Jens Braun.

By Sunday afternoon, the deck sub-structure was in place and the first board of the deck was placed next to the dining room wall.

Aldona Januszkiewicz and Margaret Lew continued working through Monday along with Mike Clark and Chris DeRoller. Watch for week 14's photos.