Renovation Progress Nov. 4 9, 2012 Week 57
Nov 4 For the first time in over a year the Sisters welcome guests for Sunday Mass through the front doors of Ottilia Hall
Nov 5 Plumbers have been around adding external water sources around the new addition and across the front of Ottilia Hall (left); masonry cleaners get to work on outside delivery walkway
Nov 5 Sisters cars have been washed and driven to the front parking lot since the road around the back of the monastery has been closed for tree removal; tree removal begins bright and early
Nov 5 Outdoor stone bases for the Stations of the Cross removed and placed at a safe distance from the upcoming roadwork
Nov 5 One final look at the trees that have blessed us for many years
Nov 5 Trimming the smaller branches first
Nov 5 The new phone system arrives and begins to be installed
Nov 6 Kitchen wall tile is completed on south and west walls
Nov 6 On the outdoor delivery walkway to the kitchen a window gets a sill
Nov 6 Light fixtures in the Retreat Center food service and dining areas
Nov 6 HVAC work resumes in the Retreat Center Dining Room
Nov 6 Final sheetrock patching at dining area entrance and the Passageway
Nov 6 Block work just off the north porch show where the steps will be
Nov 6 North porch framework and trim soon to be finished
Nov 6 From the north porch one can see over the old Infirmary where the bucket truck is positioning to trim the tops of the pine trees
Nov 6 Passageway sheetrock progress
Nov 6 Tree clearing at the top of cemetery road
Nov 6 Demolition begins in the old Infirmary
Nov 6 Bricking up the chapel wall around the new Sisters dining area window
Nov 6 Masons making headway on the stairwell from the private retreatant area to the north porch
Nov 6 Temporary electrical lines are taken down
Nov 6 A view of the tree removal progress from the back side of Gusmus
Nov 8 Masons add red brick to the north end of Ottilia porch and new stairs
Nov 8 The Sisters resume phone duty at the new information desk at Ottilia Hall entrance
Nov 8 Sheetrock tape and mud in new public restrooms
Nov 8 Old Infirmary HVAC wall units have been removed; discussion takes place on how to brick in the holes
Nov 8 Passageway emergency egress door installed
Nov 8 Progress on the north porch stairs
Nov 8 A peek through an open window shows demolition in the old Infirmary
Nov 8 Baseboards going on in the Sisters new gathering area while painters put primer on the walls
Nov 8 Sheetrock frames up the new dining room window and egress door
Nov 8 Closing off old stage doors with sheetrock
Nov 8 New kitchen tile
Nov 8 Kitchen delivery walkway has clean walls, a finished window sill and painted doors
Nov 8 Another look down the delivery walkway
Nov 8 Trimming floor tile to fit around the drains
Nov 8 Sisters dining area closet doors in place and ready for priming and paint
Nov 8 Sealing exterior brick on the chapel wall with a cement covering
Nov 8 Tree removal progress along the road
Nov 8 Another view of tree removal progress
Nov 8 Separating smaller branches from the tree trunks
Nov 8 Demolition continues in the old Infirmary
Nov 8 A new wall identifies where the corridor wall sets off the back wall of the men s restroom
Nov 8 Annunciata Hall s 4 th floor getting a new paint job in the bedrooms and along the new sprinkler pipes
Nov 8 More 4 th Annunciata photos
Nov 9 Annunciata painting crew returns for another day of work
Nov 9 Another 4 th Annunciata bedroom in progress
Nov 9 Tree removal as seen from 4 th Annunciata hallway window
Nov 9 Getting tall pine trunks ready for hauling away for lumber
Nov 9 Electrical hook-ups to HVAC units on Passageway roof; plumbers are still perplexed by the sewer smell coming out of the new mop room on 1 st Ottilia
Nov 9 Masons still at work on the north porch steps
Nov 9 More window watching shows continued demolition of the former shower, medicine room and employee restroom
Nov 9 Loading up the pine tree trunks
Nov 9 Another tree trunk is grabbed, a view from Novices Park wooded area
Nov 9 Many of the relocated bushes are fairing well with a couple of overnight rain showers
Nov 9 The new view from the middle of cemetery road
Nov 9 How in the world did they find another water main that feeds the kitchen, Annunciata, Joseph Hall and the rest of the retreat center?
Nov 9 Carpenters build forms for the next cement pouring along and behind the new kitchen walkway
Dying to self we live for you, O LORD!