Saturday

Rich Erickson starts working on the IT portion of the building project: installing a new server, computers, and security cameras.

Joy Lang and Jim Martin Paint the walls around the new lift.

Bud Hildebrandt stretches out to measure for ceiling tiles.

Ray Glewwe inspects the ceiling tiles in the Overflow Room.

Workers don their stilts in order to mud and tape the sheetrock in the new link.

Day 80

A worker heats up a pipe to be installed.

Insulation has been put in place on the second level of the new addition.

Workers install doors in the new link.

All of the windows for the new link have been installed.

Kerry Kern does the "mudding" for the newly hung sheetrock in the Narthex.

Cement

A cement truck showed up this morning to pour cement in the front entryway and the new link.

Exterior Progress

Here's an exterior look at the entryway, link, and addition. As you can see, all the windows in the addition have been installed.

Days 71 and 72

Mike Johnson installs door frames on the first level of the addition.

Workers dig a trench for an underfloor heating duct in the new link.

Glass for the new building has arrived.

Matt Glewwe, Mike Johnson, and Ray Glewwe discuss details of the new entryway with the project supervisor.

Day 65

The Overflow Room will unfortunately be unusable for Sunday Service this week. The room is currently filled with pipes and tools for the new sprinkler system.

A view of the interior of the new link.

The same view, except taken from the other end of the link, through the missing wall of the pastor's office.

Mike Johnson's crew has begun framing the new main entryway.

Ray Glewwe removes one of the coat racks from the narthex.

Day 63

Removing snow from the roof of the new link.

Once the snow is removed, tar paper goes down.

Installing a beam to take the load that used to be supported by the outside wall of the pastor's study.

Shoring up the ceiling of the theater room to support some of the weight as work continues.

Working on a Wednesday

Workers continue to tear out the exterior wall of the pastor's office.

And now the wall has been completely removed.

Mike Johnson continues his work of framing the new link that will connect the addition to the existing building.

Bill Heinemann installs ventilation chutes that will allow cool air to circulate beneath the roof of the new addition. During the winter, this will help prevent snow from melting and re-freezing, keeping ice dams to a minimum.

This is the door that leads from the Fellowship Hall and used to lead down a flight of steps on the western exterior of the existing building. Now it's actually an inside door, located in the stairwell of the new addition, although it doesn't go anywhere!

Day 57

Here you can see the work that was done yesterday to remove the windows and part of the wall from the pastor's study...

The framing for the new link continues...

The stairs are coming along nicely...

The southern side of the addition on day 57...

Insulation for the new addition arrives and is ready to be installed...

Link

Work continues on the link between the existing building and the addition. Mike Johnson and crew continue framing, while other works cut through one of the exterior walls of the pastor's study.