Sunnyhill New Home

Completion of the roofing continues to be affected by the weather. Scheduling the work when weather permits has been challenging between the un-seasonal rain and, now, the seasonal snow. However, progress is being made. The new roof and the old roof have been connected, and holes in the old roof have been filled in. Crews have also made repairs to the profile piece that gives the roof its historic thatched roof appearance.

The roof has been filled in where the Juliet balcony once provided an appealing place for children to peek into the fellowship hall. The stained glass doors that once enclosed the balcony have been stored in the attic for future use.

This section of filled-in roofing was above 

the bay window-doorway that led to the patio on the north side of the fellowship hall.

New shingles have been installed over most
of the front part of the new building. A few sunny days will allow the shingles to heat up, seal and lie flat.











Shingles warming in the sun prior to being nailed in place.











Is this art or just a collection of roofing nail coils waiting to be loaded for use?












An aluminum valley in "musket brown" waiting to be installed. Our gutters and leaders will be the same color.

The rolled rubber roofing on the flat roof above the sanctuary and office-classroom section of the new addition is done, but the flat roof over the infant-toddler room, seen in between the old and new building in this photo, is yet to be done. Until the roofing is in place, keeping the rain out will be difficult, even with the judicious use of plastic sheeting and sandbag dams. 

 Crews are almost finished attaching the ventilated roof insulation panels above the roof decking of the sanctuary. The north facing section, seen in this photo and the next, is complete, and about 25 percent of the south facing section remains to be done. Once completed the roof will be ready for shingling.  Much of the shingling on the sloped portion of the office/classroom is in place.

 Yesterday, members of the construction team walked through the new building with Craig, our TEDCO project manager, and our electrician to review the electrical wiring and determine if we had enough AC outlets and data ports. With most of the wiring installed, it was easy to see where we should add outlets and where we had adequate coverage. We decided to add several outlets along the front and outside walls in the offices.



We also added an outlet and data port to the crying room, which could function as a small meeting room during the week, and  6'-8" high on the new wall between the square archways facing the old fellowship hall. Planning for the future, we may one day install a monitor on the wall with information about church events. It could also be used to show video of events in the sanctuary in real time.

On a previous visit, we marked where the three AC outlet and data port boxes should be placed on the stage. The boxes will be located centered between the stage floor joists and 16" from the front of the stage in the three spaces marked with an orange dot.

During our tour, we also had our first look at the attic where our HVAC and audio-visual console will be installed and which will also provide access to our old attic and our new dormer door to the flat roof over the infant-toddler room. We made the decision to add another fluorescent light fixture to better light the hallway to the old attic and dormer door. We also are looking into adding a support beam to allow heavy items, such as file cabinets and HVAC equipment, to be winched up and down into and out of the attic. 

To the left is the door to what was once the minister's study and functioned more recently as an ad-hoc meeting room. When we re-occupy the building, this area will be off-limits for meetings and office space due to strict fire laws and limited access.

This photo looks out through the new dormer doorway to the flat roof over the infant/toddler room. Stacks of insulation wait to be installed before the rolled rubber roofing can be placed. The roof and walls will be insulated. Crews are already making use of the doorway to reach the roof.

 Materials stored on the roof ready for use prevented a more complete photo of the exterior of the new dormer doorway.