Merry Christmas! Snow, snow and more snow!

 Just a couple of pictures this week to show the progress of the frame.  As you can see, the trusses over the fellowship hall are going up.  Building continues to run smoothly.  The crew even nailed up a cross over the sanctuary! 

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December 6-11th, 2010 Framing continues...

Thank you for all your prayers, it was icy this week, but the crews were focused on safety and the week was incident free.  A few pictures of the frame going up...

Some of the trusses are placed over the classrooms.

Side view

Rear view

Back wall of sanctuary starting to take shape.

The frame goes up!

Thanksgiving week was a slow work week due to the frigid temperatures.  This week also brought the challenge of the snow, but the crew perservered and got a lot done.



First truss going up.  This will be the back of the church.



Had to move a lot of snow to get any work done!

Piece by piece everything is coming together.

Starting to look like a building.

More trusses going up.

Trusses over the classrooms are shipped in from Portland.

Taking the trusses off the truck.



Framer Dan Deshon gives us a smile.



Side view of our church!

Nov. 15-20, 2010 Framing Begins!

Welcome to the Future Home of Community Church of Ephrata!

First load of structure from "Eagle Rigid Span".

2nd load of structure

Poised to start framing.

1st wall goes up!  Yay!

PUD here to install electrical service.

Nov. 4, 2010 Big Day! 16000 sq. ft. of Concrete!

This was the big day to pour concrete.  Praise the Lord for sunny dry weather and 4 different subcontractors on the job site.  10 people from the concrete plant, 12 from the concrete finishing company, 1 person representing our concrete contractor, 1 person running the pump truck, and Keith, Bill, Cal and 2 other employees from Dean Ryan Homes.  29 people working to make this a safe successful pour.  Again, we thank God that this could happen before the ground freezes. 

First cement truck arrives; 6:30am



Concrete pump truck



This machine is called a Laser Screed.  It automatically levels the concrete using laser electronics.




Laser Screed.  You can see the laser tripod in the background.



The head of the laser screed pulls and vibrates the concrete to smooth.

Leroy, Bob and Bill taking in all the action.

More onlookers on this sunny day.

Last of 23 trucks!

Almost finished pouring!




Keith takes a pose on the Ride-on power trowel...the workcrew was on these trowels till dark smoothing the floor.  (This is Rob's version of the Zamboni!)



4 power trowels at work till dark.

November 2nd - prepping for concrete

The guys had to lay down 16,000 sq. ft. of tarp and then have it covered in sand.  With the wind picking up, they had their work cut out for them.

Keith, Caleb (Dean Ryan Homes employee) and Bill.




This truck is called a "Slinger" and it's flowing sand is all operated by remote control...very cool! 

 

Sand is flying and the tarps are down.

Daddy's little helper :)

Oct. 26-29, 2010 Installation of underground services

Underground services were all installed within a week with many subcontractors on the site.

Mike Ellis digging in the plumbing trenches.



Quincy Heating installing the underground heat ducts for the fellowship hall.

Inland Fire Protection installing water lines for the sprinkler system.

All State Electric placing the underground electrical conduit.

Some of the conduit for the sound system.

October 23-25, 2010

Welcome to the Community Church of Ephrata's building project blog!  It's an exciting time to see dirt moving and concrete being poured as we see the makings of our new church in progress.  This past week has been extremely busy in order to get the ground ready for concrete before it freezes.

Beautiful sunny Saturday to  move some dirt.

Tim Massey "The Excavator"

Cal & Bill hard at work.

David Chandler (Dean Ryan Homes employee), Bill Turnbull and Cal Miller



Keith Lenssen, a brief moment not on the phone or driving the skidsteer.




Brent Billingsley helping on the backhoe, Keith in the skidsteer.



Oct. 30th, 2010