Breakthrough!

In mid-March the wall from the present building to the connecting corridor to the extension was broken through on the street-level. The new Quiet Room is now accessible from the main concourse of the meeting house.

Start of the removal of the wall next to the main meeting room

Meanwhile work continued in the new parts of the building. Windows have been fitted to the linking corridor, the Quiet Room and the garden room as these photos from Chris Edwards show:

Inside the new Garden Room

View of the new link corridor from the terrace. The Quiet Room is on the left.

The new Garden Room and the Quiet Room (upper floor)

Inside the Quiet Room, work began on installing the ceiling:

In the meantime, outdoors, Chris Edwards (Meeting House Manager) and David Peryer (Treasurer) continued their hands-on approach to the project by dealing with work in the garden, and with the removal of a tree:

Roof in place

The building work is making good progress. The roof is now on both the link corridor from the main building and on the Quiet Room / Garden Room extension. The lift was delivered in component form and has now been installed.

On the garden level, the work on the new kitchen and lavatory is in progress, and the corridor to the Woolman Room will soon be ready for the plasterboard to be put up. The garden wall of the Woolman Room itself now has the two new entries broken through, one for a large window onto the garden and one for a second door. The cedar cladding for the Quiet Room exterior is currently stored there, waiting to be installed.

Our excellent onsite team of builders continues to liaise closely with both the architects and Chris Edwards, our meeting house manager, who continues to make every effort to minimise the disruption to the many users of the building during the week.

Plumbing and electrical work has already begun, and in the coming week access between the main building and the new corridor will be opened up.

Work is on target for completion by the end of April. An optimistic little bird even tells us we may be able to hope for a work to be over a few days early!


Here are some more photos of the work, as recorded by Chris Edwards in late February.

View along the new corridor roof, looking back towards the main building

The extension for the Garden Room and Quiet Room takes shape

Tiling of the Quiet Room

Garden Room and Quiet Room Tower now recognisable

Woolman Room as per March 2nd 2014. The doorway and window have been broken through to the garden. The historic, if troublesome wall on the left is to be encased in glass and illuminated, with ventilation via ducting still to be installed. The wood stored is the cladding for the Quiet Room.

The lift has now been installed.

View inside the lift shaft

Inside the new stairwell

A peep inside the (Not yet) Quiet Room

Meanwhile, in the Fell Room … The hub for the site works.