Drumkeeran Church Renovations
Week 12
Starting Monday, 24 August.
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Monday and Tuesday
The scaffold company began to remove the upper levels of the scaffolding
on Monday
morning.
By mid-
The removal of the upper level of scaffolding means that workers can now put slates
on the roofs of the side-
By Monday evening the slating of the north side-
These are old slates that were salvaged from the main roof.
And inside the church…
… a new marble ambo has been constructed.
The final varnish has been applied to the timbers of the entrance lobby
and some of
the glass panes have been inserted.
A special levelling compound has been applied to the floor of the new toilet area
in
preparation for the laying of the floor covering.
In the sacristy a new fire-
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
With the completion of the roof on the north side-
the slaters are now working
on the south side-
The intermittent rain showers, some of them very heavy, mean that the work is constantly
interrupted.
By Friday evening, only this section remains to be finished.
The Baptism font is repositioned.
The varnish has been applied to the woodwork in the new side-
On Friday, the scaffolding at the main door of the church is dismantled.
By 5.00 pm all the scaffolding at the door has been removed.
We now can see the impact
of the power-
The statue of St Brigid, over the doorway, has
yet to be painted.
The tidying-
Some of the crates in which the new slate were delivered
are
stacked up and ready to be taken away.