Church roof repairs update no. 3
As of Thursday 28th March, when a site meeting was held with Alfie Spencer and Andy Hare from the main contractors Pinnacle, Carl Andrews our architect and Jess Rudman and Phill Kicks representing St John’s, I am happy to submit my third report on the Roof project.
The main scaffolding is 60% complete on the north side, due to be completed by 5th March, including high level scaffolding.
All metal drainage work for the North side has been ordered and the lead time indicates delivery week commencing 8th April.
Pointing work to be started on South side – will start in conjunction with tiling week commencing 8th April.
- Work on the South roof is proceeding at pace, with tiles being delivered Tuesday the 2nd April for installation commencing 8th once all final prep work done (a small forklift truck will be working in the area as there are 3000 tiles to be moved).
- Fitting of all tiles to South roof expected to take 4 weeks, then a possible 2 more weeks for lead dressing and finishing up. This would put the expected completion of the South roof in mid-May.
- The stripping of the North roof will start as soon as the guttering is fitted. As there will be a larger team working on the North side it will progress more quickly than the South roof. However, as it is a more complex roof the expected completion will be delayed. No dates have been set as yet for delivery of the second set of 3000 tiles, but it will take place on either a Tuesday or Wednesday morning as soon as required. The target completion date for all tiling and lead dressing is end of May.
The next major milestones:
- Delivery of tiles – 2nd April
- North roof work starting 8th April
- South roof completely watertight by end April
Phill Kicks, Churchwarden
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