Day 10 Home stretch

We entered the home stretch today with a flurry of activity.  We were finally over the prepping and the scraping so the noise levels were significantly reduced. No more grinding – much to Gavin’s relief. Painting today was more touch up and final finishing, and wood work on the doors became more about finishing off and adding door furniture, all new door handles and nice new door hooks to retain the doors when open, rather than the large rocks that were previously the norm.

We also finished all the window louvres, as extra hands came onto that task, and we got all the security mesh installed. As we got to the final louvres we found out that we were 6 louvres short. Chilly had done the counting so accurately, the fact that we broke a few (5) along the way will mean a quick dash to the hardware shop on the last morning. Paul (Roger) became an expert glass cutter today, as the final classroom, which was the one that needed a fair bit of reconstruction of the window frame, meant that we had to shorten the louvres for 3 windows (24 louvres). This was achieved with no breakages.

As the main tasks were finished, everyone got into cleaning and fixing up the little things. Tow previously unused storerooms are now clean, the shelving fixed, and painted to brighten them up and make them more user friendly.  We also got the electrician back to install lights in the storerooms and additional lighting in the toilets. We unlocked a sports resource room and discovered a treasure trove of sports gear that had fallen into disuse. The room was emptied, cleaned and restocked after the old unusable gear was chucked out.

Along the base of the windows we placed a final strip of wood and then added coat hooks so the kids will have somewhere to hang their bags etc. We also cleaned the Principals office and painted the ceiling.

So a big day.  Tomorrow we have a few hours to finish of the cleaning of the classrooms and we will be finished.  Yippee.  Then we will have the formal hand over at 1pm and we will tell you more about that in the next blog.