These were taken in late May, and in June and early July, 2009.

Before Any Construction

Yikes! We have to move everything out of the new addition!

The pianos,

the benches, and tables, shelving…

Empty the moldy rugs & furniture from the Grotto into the dumpster .

OK, now we’re ready for…

Getting Ready

Whole Builders (our design-build contractors) show up.

Some of the planners:

Whole Builders’ Mary Jane & Keith. TCFM’s Carolyn, EB & Mike.

This Building is Closed!

Doors are covered with schedules of meetings and maps to other locations.

Water & Mold Damage and Remediation

They began by sealing against mold contamination during mold removal before any walls or ceilings were ripped open.

The elevator and many doors and passages were sealed off.

The ceilings of several rooms were pulled down to find the mold. Walls were broken open and inspected.

Damage above stairwell.

Underside of roof deck.

Underside of roof deck

Under window and underneath floor in new classroom.

 

Window Damage 1

Window Damage 2

Soda blaster (at foot of back stairs).

Blast was so powerful it dug deep into the grain in the damaged spots, like the right corner of the window frame.

Of course the air was filled with toxic dust. This was scrubbed with an industrial air cleaner and then…

vented out through the FIR living room windows…

out of the building…

all the way past the compost piles and out to the alley.

First, get the old furnace off the roof.

Pull off the old roof membrane.

Looking down into parking lot. (That’s a roof drain in the center. It empties out by the back steps.)

The corner of the roof over the stairwell, so rotten it has to be replaced. (Don’t be confused by the roof access hatch cover, that has been moved off it’s access hole, temporarily.)

Above the stairwell in the new building, the roof deck is torn off.

New Roof

Roof decking on bad corner is replaced, extending all the way over to and around access hatch.

laying of new membrane begins.

First, more insulation than we had before, above the deck, under the membrane.

Insulation around that roof drain.

Then covered with membrane, in the corner next to the parking lot.

Of course, it’s not just the flat part of the roof…

there’s new flashing around the parapets.

The strips of membrane are sealed together with heat. (This is one of many places you are glad you paid for a high-quality subcontractor.)

That’s the top of the elevator.

We now know that the original roof, installed 17 years ago, had problems in the “bridge” area.

We are hoping for a better job, this time around.

Looking good…

View from the roof of the old house.

Happiness is a snug new roof over the Meeting Room!

Meeting Room

First, we cover the floor. (See “Fellowship Room,” below, for details.)

We don’t seem to have any photos of the ceiling coming down, and the huge amount of (suspect) insulation coming out. (Insulation was suspect because it was the same as allowed the sprinkler pipe to freeze over the bridge.)

Then, we inspect the underside of the roof.

No rotten trusses (whew)!

Only one spot of mold growing on rotten wood. (This plywood was replaced later, from up top.)

Fellowship Room

First, protect the floor (the same process that was done in the Meeting Room)

A waterproof barrier,

smoothed and taped.

Then overlaid with a hard surface, also taped.

Bring down the ceiling!

The light fixtures and water-stained acoustical tile are down.

Down comes the sheet rock and the insulation.

Underside of Meeting Room floor, above, is now accessible, almost ready for the installation of in-floor heating.

Back Steps, Adjacent Stucco and Sump Room

The area around the back steps was never sealed.

Nor was the area of wall behind the steps. There should have been stucco where you can see plywood, under the dark strip of flashing, behind the long white pipe.

This allowed water infiltration into the area just below, which happens to be the sump room.

This is the small room just behind the janitor’s closet/furnace room next to the bathrooms near the Fellowship room.

(The sump pump is supposed to keep the amphitheater from filling with rain and flooding into the Fellowship Room.)

Regular leakage from the area of the back steps over the years has increased our moisture and mold problems in the Fellowship area.

Plus some other things

Oh yeah, there’s the bridge ceiling, where the original sprinkler break was. There was water damage and mold around the windows, from rain getting in.

While we are at it, it seems important to improve the amphitheater drain. We’ve had flooding into the Fellowship room a couple of times.

Finishing the FIR apartment

The bathroom in the FIR apartment will be put back as it was before. We plan that most of the work will be done by TCFM volunteers.

The FIR kitchen will be significantly redesigned to include more storage space.

Looking Ahead

(Not including all the finish-work TCFM volunteers will be doing in the FIR apartment and elsewhere) as of mid-July, here are the major things Whole Builders still has on its list:

FIR, Trim, Casings, Base, Etc…

Flooring

Gas Pipe Union @ Fellowship Ceiling, R & R, Inspection, Etc…

HVAC Install @ Mtg Room @ Fellowship Room @ All In-Floor Tubing Install

Insulation @ FIR

Insulation @ Mtg Room

Insulation @ Fellowship Room

Mechanical Rough-ins

Mechanical Finishes, HVAC, Plumbing, Electrical, Sprinkler, Fire Alarm, Smoke Detectors, Etc…

Plumbing, Install Sump, FIR plumbing, Remove & Replace, Etc…

Reinforce Truss, Roof Inspection-

Sprinkler Head, Remove & Replace, and Adjustments at Fellowship Ceiling and “Required Changes”

Stucco, R & R, Patching, Etc…

Window Install

Carpet Cleaning

Prime & Paint

INSPECTIONS

Project Take-down, Completion, Etc…

Punch List, Etc…

Stay tuned for the next photos.