Fall Update

by Scott on November 27, 2009

This sum­mer has flown by.  Work has been pro­ceed­ing on the build­ing.  We had a new well dug and built a new heavy duty pump house out of brick.

The new pump house. The new pump house.

This sum­mer, all of our mechan­i­cal con­trac­tors have passed inspec­tion: Elec­tri­cal, Plumb­ing and HVAC duct work.  We needed to sheath the dorm­ers on the rear of the build­ing (sheath­ing weath­er­proofs the walls using foam and tar paper) in order to pass an inspec­tion and allow us to add sid­ing.  We built scaf­fold­ing to allow us to work safely on the roof.  We have passed the inspec­tion and have begun installing the sid­ing.  Once we fin­ish and dis­man­tle the scaf­fold­ing, the air con­di­tion­ers can be installed and we can begin fin­ish­ing the interior.

Sheathing on the middle dormer Sheathing The rear of the building, with the scaffolding built to work on the sheathing ans siding. The rear of the building, scaffolding in place.

We are thank­ful for all of your prayers and support!

Winter Update

by Scott on February 13, 2009

The HVAC con­trac­tor is await­ing an inspec­tion before installing the units.  All of the duct work and wiring has been run for 3 large air con­di­tion­ers that will be installed on the deck that was com­pleted in December.

The elec­tri­cian has been installing the wiring and is nearly com­plete.  He esti­mated 3 more days of work.

We have been installing the trim on the win­dows.  The pic­tures make the work look sim­ple, as the fin­ish trim only shows for wide boards; how­ever, we put a lot of prep into the win­dows before we install the trim.  Due to the var­ied thick­ness of the logs, we must chisel away logs that are too thick, and add shims in places to make the win­dow frame match the width of the wall.

Every­one here is dong well and we often talk about our friends from, well, all over.

Thank you for all of your love and prayers!

We’re still making progress

December 21, 2008

I have not updated the site here because it seems as though this year, espe­cially this sum­mer has flown by!  We appre­ci­ate all of you who keep up with the progress of the build­ing and we are grate­ful for your prayers.
We have reached the point of work­ing on inte­rior fin­ish work.  We recently began framing […]

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Decks completed! Parking lot graded!

July 6, 2008

We have fin­ished the rail­ings on the deck­ing and the con­trac­tor has done the early grad­ing on the park­ing lot.  After the other heavy con­struc­tion (sep­tic tank and well dig­ging) are done, he will do the final grad­ing and place the park­ing bumpers.  We chose to lay shell sand for the park­ing lot.  Shell sand […]

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Latest Update

June 2, 2008

The col­lege group from the Cen­tral con­gre­ga­tion in John­son City, Ten­nessee, vis­ited the first week of May. They helped us com­pleted sev­eral of the hand rails that we are build­ing. I have added some pic­tures of these. Also included are pic­tures of the new vents that we installed in April.
Things are pro­gress­ing nor­mally. As always, […]

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Overdue update

February 27, 2008

It is inex­cus­able that I have not posted an update for more than six months! I do apol­o­gize and have no excuse other than to say that I was doing some­thing I was good at: pro­cras­ti­nat­ing.
A lot has hap­pened since my last update:
Toward the end of sum­mer, we put our per­pet­ual task of mak­ing handrails […]

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