It is quite a while since I last posted in my blog and there are various reasons for that. Firstly, we have been able to get away a few times with the caravan and thankfully with no covid-19 restrictions on our movement within NSW. Secondly, I’ve been busy with various activities related to our church becoming established in a warehouse complex.
It is this latter reason that I’ll tak about in today’s blog.
At the end of last year our church entered into a lease of a ~440 square metre warehouse in a new complex and then began the long drawn out process of getting approval from council to use it as a place of worship. With that approval finally granted, we needed to build in a 60 square metre mezzanine level for meeting/Sunday School rooms and the owner of the complex needed to install additional toilets.
Along with 2 friends (one of whom did the design work) we have framed and gyprocked (dry-walled) the area to create 3 rooms . In the process my woodworking experience has expanded from my normal joinery type work. I can now knock together framework – and aren’t Paslode type framing guns great (sure beats banging in nails with a hammer). I’ve learnt how to put up gyprock and I’ve installed windows.
For 3 of the 4 windows we installed, the aim was to minimise sound so we double glazed them mounting the glass directly into the wall frames.
We will be getting a professional plasterer to come in to fill and sand the walls before we add the cornices and skirting boards.
Meanwhile the owner has started on the additional toilets and we will be building another room on top of those. We have also agreed with the owner that we will gyprock the new toilets.