Thanks to your support, Stage One is well underway!
19 March 2025
We've made a lot of progress in stage one, so hold your hats and let me take you on a quick journey through the mahi that has happened.
- The hall is fully scaffolded and wrapped for all weather protection
- The colours have been confirmed - for the roof, Colorsteel's Pioneer Red and, for the exterior walls, Resene Merino.
- 850 LM of weatherboards were dropped off near the end of February and, with the help of the community, they were undercoated and given one coat of their top coat.
- The NZ Army allocated 4 x qualified carpenters who stayed for a total of 11 days while the community either volunteered their time or helped out with hosting them (I think we may have fattened them up whilst they were here!)
- The front and rear of the building have been completely stripped of weatherboards, all repairs completed and builder's paper and new weatherboards have been screwed up (I want to make a special mention of Jeremy Cornes here who this week completed the fixing of the weatherboards at the front of the hall)
- We have put out a call to action for qualified carpenters to carry out the remaining tasks in stage one.
- We have two new windows in the supper room. The window to the rear of the supper room looks amazing installed. The window by the sink is yet to be installed.
- The sash windows are almost completely repaired.
There's still much to be done but our volunteer project lead, Dan Grimshaw, is keeping things going. A big thanks to Dan and The Reno Guys!