Post my birthday bash (last night) with Scouty chums, we started work just after eleven this morning. One objective in mind; to repair the hole in the entrance door. The Veveri agreed to pitch up and share the job. A quick measure of the rotten door and we were on a road trip to Wicks' to buy wood.
We spent until five o clock doing the repair. Each bit of wood had to be rebated to fit the old door frame. The reason for the repair was 50 year old wood that had rotten, so we treated all parts with a wood preservative that can be painted onto.
Final part of the job was to make and fit drip boards for each of the doors. These were treated and screwed into place. Skip used his electric plane to shape the boards (dont know the proper name for these items).
During this work, Akela fitted a draft and drip strip to the rear (used to be fire) doors. To make this work, the hasp had to be removed.
Dont know it I mentioned this but the club committee and steward were not happy with our choice of 'village green' for the external wood work. I was sure I had mentioned it to them, in any case we have simply taken one of the previous colours that the hall wood work had been painted in and used that colour. I have promised that we will move to white in circa six to nine months time.... Probably when we have access to other funds and move to plastic windows and doors.
Here is a shot of the inside of the hall. Things are really starting to look good.
On Monday, our decorating team return for the final two weeks. I want to see inside and outside painting completed and have the floor boards taken up. This will allow the floor to be sanded and treated and should make the inside look stunning!
Finally, a message on my answerphone from David at the Club (yesterday evening) says the committee will proceed and sign the lease. This means we can really get cracking with services and heating / guttering.
We now have a quote of £800 for the guttering, electrics still need a written quote and I now have a £3500 quote to lay 17 metres of pipe and install a gas meter... clearly we are going to need access to village funds.
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