It certainly seems like it. I checked the Church late this afternoon and apart from one section down the west wall most of the place was dry. It hardly seems believable that in a weeks time the contractors will be on site. For now the last minute paper-work is concentrating the mind, and tomorrow, the Kirk Session are off on an away- day sampling the delights? of a not-too-distant venue. Hopefully we will all return refreshed and ready for a 20- week programme of repair works.
So we hit the deck running this week, First task on Monday Morning was a meeting with the Lead Architect and the Contractors to re-cap where we were when all work was put on hold and also to sort out the tidying up "Our Building Site" The Repair work at KH was originally organised around Church Life, and that will continue, the Congregation and all of the Hall Users will continue to meet in the Hall while the Contractors will carry on working upstairs in the Sanctuary. This is not the normal way of carrying out one of these major projects, I do like to think that perhaps we at KH blazed a trail. I think there is nothing worse than a Community building all wrapped up in scaffold and portacabins while the the Community who use it get lost in the busy-ness of the work. We are all in this together and hopefully we can all compromise as and when neccesary.
Great news, Fiona! If the building can survive the weather of the past few days it can withstand anything.
ReplyDeleteAll strength to your arm and those of the contractors!
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