Here it is, the end of our first week on the project at Brackettville First United Methodist Church.  As usual, we have accomplished more than we expected to in the first week. 

Tuesday morning started with breakfast at the church.  The minister and his wife, Joe and Francis, have an early morning breakfast for some of the local high school students, and we were invited.  It was a great way to start the day getting to meet some of the kids in the town.  There are usually about four to ten young people there, today there were eleven, counting the NOMADS. 

On Tuesday and Wednesday we continued with the removal of the old vinyl flooring in the fellowship hall and painting in the church sanctuary.  As you can tell from the pictures below, removing the old flooring was not an easy task.  The old flooring was not glued completely, just at the seams and along the walls.  The seams were glued very well.  The floor had to be completely stripped before we could be a sealer coat down prior to the new tile.  We finally got the floor ready for the sealer by the time we finished on Wednesday.

The women continued to work on painting the sanctuary.  They are using three different shades of a rose pink.  The shading of the different colors looks great.  At times, when some of the light colors are shaded from the sun, it looks darker pink.  This minister's wife, Francis, has been directing the color scheme.  She has also been helping with the painting, mostly by getting up high on the scaffolding to paint.  They are about half way through with the work.  I will have to say that they are doing about a good a job as I have seen.

Today we put the sealer coat on the concrete in the fellowship hall.  It is a very thin milky liquid that we put on using paint rollers.  The new concrete, about 750 square feet, took the most sealer.  The new, pores concrete really soaked it up.  The older concrete, about 1600 square feet, having already been sealed once, and the glue from the old flooring, went much faster and covered easier.

Tonight one of the church members has invited the team over for a hamburger cookout.  It will be a nice way to end the week.  Also, looking forward to a nice weekend of relaxing and doing some chores.

                     Breakfast on Tuesday morning.  That is Virgina in front leading the way.

Here's Bill and Ralph working on removing the old vinyl flooring.  They are using a heat gun and scrapers to get the old material up.  Some of the glue had really hardened.

                                      Martha is painting the dark trim around the door frame.

The ladies have been doing some painting on high.  This is after they had taken down the scaffolding to paint the area above the arch.

                                  This is what the floor looked like on Wednesday morning.

                          Ralph and Kent working hard to remove more of the old flooring.

 

Me trying to figure out where all the old flooring is coming from.  Seems like the more we remove, the more there is to remove.

 

 
All of the old flooring finally removed by Wednesday afternoon.  We have swept, vacuumed, and dust mopped the floor.  Tomorrow we seal it.

 

Thursday morning.  This is me putting on the sealer coat.  This will prevent any dampness from coming up through the concrete.

 

Here's Ralph with a big smile.  He is happy that we have finally gotten the floor ready for tile.  We will start installing the new floor on Monday.

Until the next posting, and

Remember, God Loves You