TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, Quitting time:  The inside partitions downstairs have been framed, clearly delineating the room arrangement.  The studs are sheet metal, formed to be dimensionally equivalent to 2x4 wood members.  Where there are to be  attachments to the sheet-rock walls, ie for handrails and toilet stalls, plywood or framing lumber has been attached to the studs to provide for secure attachment.  One wall of the center mechanical room has a 3/4 inch plywood surface, which serves as a backboard for the electric panels, now attached.  Recepticle boxes and conduit have been installed in the framing.  On the north side, conduit has been laid in a trench between the building and the sidewalk, as have been three fibre optic cables. The conduits are apparently for telephone cable now overhead, and the fibre optic cable is direct-buried.  It was being installed by Troy Cablevision.   A wall footing has been poured between the two air conditioning unit pads between the old building and the south wing of the new building.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7:  The south firewall at the old building is up to full height, covering the north windows of the history room and framing the window in the existing elevator lobby, which will become the location of the connecting door upstairs.
PVC plumbing sewer pipes have been extended to and thru the second floor.  The elevator shaft has reached three courses of block above the second floor.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8:  The framing for the front wall is in place: 2 x 6 steel studs.
The framing for the doors and windows in the front wall is not put in.  The framing does turn down the north wall.  The elevator shaft appears to have  reached full height upstairs.

Inside, a walk-through reveals something not caught earlier:  The trunk ducts for the air conditioning in the fellowship hall are in place.  There are two ducts, each starting at  about eight square feet cross section, made of galvanized sheetmetal with flanged, gasketed joints, and wrapped with fibreglas blanket having a foil-skrim-kraft vapor barrier sealed with foil-skrim-kraft adhesive tape.  The supply duct runs above the ceiling level along the kitchen side of the room;  the return air duct runs  above the ceiling along the north wall of the room. Both are extended into the mechanical/electrical room at the center of the building.  Supply and return air grilles will be in the ceiling.

The masons are raising the brick verneer on the south wing and the east wall of the connecting corridor.

On the front of the main building, the sidewalk contractor has removed and replaced two sections of the walkways to the entrances to the sanctuary, in order to make them level with the new sidewalk, which is about two inches higher than the old one.  The landing for the wheelchair ramp, however, has not (yet) been raised.

THERE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN A LOST UPLOAD HERE: THERE WAS A PIECE WRITTEN OVER THE WEEKEND. OUR APOLOGIES. THE LANDING AT THE END OF THE WHEELCHAIR RAMP WAS LEVELED WITH THE SIDEWALK.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14:  Studs are up for the entire outside perimeter of the upstairs; all are 2 x 6 steel members.  The plate over the wall, a 2 x 8 wood member secured to the top of the steel frame structure, is in place over most of the framing.  Conversation with the job foreman indicate that the roof trusses, scheduled for two weeks hence may go up sooner, if the supplier can speed up his schedule.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15:  The framing is up around the stairwell; the lower flight of stairs and the intermediate landing are in place
the remaining flight is on the floor upstairs.  The windows upstairs are framed; the outside of the east wall of the crossover corridor has received gypsum board to a level of four feet above the second floor, as have the adjoining and facing walls. Downstairs, the TV cable has been pulled into the central equipment room.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16:  The upper flight of stairs has been installed.  The Troy Cable Technician has extended the TV cable to the attic of the existing building, which will allow installation of fibre optic equipment sooner than xpected.  This will improve both the quality and reliability of the Sunday morning cable-cast.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, MID MORNING: At shortly after 8:00 am, the temperature was 55 degrees; at ten o'clock, it is still 55 degrees.  The high yesterday was the mid-70's.  There is a light mist falling.  The foundation wall of the front porch is up to the ninth course of block, about ground level on the north side; workers are re-attaching the vapor barrior to the outside of the front basement wall within the porch area; a back-hoe operator is waiting to fill the porch floor void with dirt.  Inside, duct work is being run into the east end of the building from the central equipment room. A copper pipe appearing to be about 3" nominal diameter extends overhead from the utility room at the southeast corner of the building to the rest rooms on the north side.  Some branch circuit wiring has been pulled into conduits terminating in the central equipment room.  The interior of the main electric panel is on the floor of the central equipment room; it has an 800 Amp (208 volt) three phase main switch.  This amounts to about 800 HP, and is about half the size of the service in the existing building. A tv cable junction box has been installed  On the north side, outside the door, the elevator hardware has been delivered.  On the back lot, the air conditioning equipment has been received: Two 20-ton condensing units, one 15-ton condensing unit, and a 4-ton condensing unit, along with associated indoor sections.  This is Trane equipment.  Since the downstairs has been dried in, work can progress despite the increasingly inclement weather.  The brickwork on the west side of the south wing and adjoining crossover corridor has reached window sill level.  This appears to the to highest the brickwork will extend, as there is a continuous sill line at this point;  the architect's drawing shows what appears to be stucco from this point up.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 3:30 PM:  The afternoon is cool, dry and crisp. 3/4 inch fire rated gypsum board ("sheet rock") has been installed at the bar-joist level for a fire-stop ceiling in the corridors.  The finished ceiling will be suspended lower than this.  Framing has been installed around the large trunk ducts along the ceiling on the north and south sides of the fellowship hall.  Matching framing is being constructed on the east and west sides, although there is no duct work to hide.  The elevator hydraulic unit has been received.  Elevator installers have installed the rail on which the elevator box will slide.  Attachment rail for the firestop ceiling has been attached to the barjoists in the elevator lobby area.  Electricians have installed flexible conduits which will attach to lights in the ceiling of the fellowship hall, and have pulled wire into many of the conduits downstairs.  A fibre-optic transmitter has been installed in a locked cable service box at the electric panel; an extension cord runs from this box into the utility room of the existing building to power the transmitter.  We can now transmit the Sunday service to the cable office via fibre optic cable!   The general contractor crew has left for the week, although the drywall crew may work Friday.

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 25, WALKTHRU AFTER CHURCH:  Last night's torrential rains (3 inches by some accounts!) resulted in some wet gypsum board, generally as a result of water running across barjoist members from the open stairwell.  Also, there was some water in the downstairs back foyer of the existing building, a result of water flow down between the walls from the upstairs elevator lobby of the new building, which isof course at this time, without any roof.  Also, some framing has been installed for false beams in the fellowship hall, breaking the ceiling into four quarters.

The rains last night also washed out some new curb work in front of the juvenile court services building at the corner of Oak and Walnut Streets, where there was an unfinished storm sewer intake.  It was necessary to cordon off the parking lot there, as there was a two-foot wide trench washed out at the curb line.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27:  The two air handlers for the downstairs air conditioning systems have been brought into the fellowship hall to await placement in the central equipment room, which has been walled up with a layer of gypsum board backed by a layer of  plywood.  Duct work has been extended down the ceiling of the north-west corridor to near the east entrance.  Branch duct attachemnts fittings have been installed on this duct.  Fire dampers and other duct accessories have been brought into the site.  Fresh water plumbing has been installed with large ball valves for the downstairs and upstairs restrooms, and branch plumbing has been installed for the restroms.  Electricians have been installing condit and pulling wire in the conduits in place.  Upstairs, gypsum board sheathing has been installed on all of the north wall, the east wall of the connecting structure and adjoining portions of the south wall , as well as parts of the east wall.  Windows have been installed in the connecting structure.  The roof  trusses have not yet been received.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 AFTER CHOIR PRACTICE:  Duct work branches have been extended into the classrooms on the north and south sides of the corridor There are dire dampers where they pass through the corridor walls.  Fresh water plumbing has been extended to the central mechanical room, where there will be a water heater.  In this room, the interior of the main electric panel has been installed in the box, and two smaller panel boxes have been installed, one on each side of the main panel.  These are receiving conduit runs for the branch circuits.  The panel on the right is for general purpose circuits (lights, plugs, etc); the one on the left is for the air conditioner and heavy equipment circuits.  The elevator car frame is in place; it is attached to two hydraulic cylinders which will be the lifting mechanism.  The elevator well door frame is in place downstairs.  Correction note:  Earlier it was stated that the central equipment room was walled with gypsum board, backed by plywood; it is in fact walled with what appears to be 3/4" plywood sheathing, painted white, except for the electrical equipment backboard, which is not painted.  Upstairs, the sheathing has been applied to almost all of the outside wall, including the curved portion of the south wing wall.  The only gaps are in the center of the Oak Street side, where there is an opening left to facilitate access for material which may be elevated by fork lift and set onto the upstairs floor, and over the front equipment plaza, where scaffolding will be necessary for the installation.  Workers have been able to use tractor lift equipment or work from adjoining roof surfaces for most of the rest of the buildng.  In the front, the area under the porch, and the adjoining backfill have been tamped.  Moisture barrier is being applied to spaces which will be below grade level, and preparations are being made for raising the brickwork on the front wall and porch foundation, which, being below grade level at this point, are concrete block.  Drain lines have been laid from the front fill area to a point  east of the north entrance, where they open to the street at the curb.