Plaster, Paint Work Finished: Carpet Coming Saturday

The plastering and painting work in the sanctuary was completed today, and it looks great! The crew did an excellent job, and even added some decorative touches that were previously missing, including the outline of the trim on the platform, choir rail and the front of the sanctuary. The room looks new, aside from the bare concrete on the floor and the bare wood on the platform.

There is a list of names from the sanctuary renovation team from back in 1997 that was written on the plywood of the floor. Perhaps those names could be put on a plaque somewhere, since I can only imagine how difficult it must have been to pull all of that together the last time. It may not seem like it while you are sitting in one of the pews during worship, but the detail involved in painting was phenomenal. This particular paint contractor somehow managed to get it all done with razor straight lines, no drips or runs, and no brush marks.

Something else to look for. With the scaffolding in place, the painters were able to replace the bulbs in the light fixtures that backlight the round, stained-glass window at the back of the sanctuary that faces the street. Those lights are set on a timer, so we will once again have the window lit in the evening. We have not been able to replace those lights because we don't have a means of getting up there, so when they reached that part of the ceiling, they replaced the bulbs for us. We are modifying the pew arrangement in the balcony so that we can rent a scaffold when they need to be replaced again.

We may be just a week or two away from being able to worship in the sanctuary again. Sounds like a celebration may be coming our way.