Work & Rest

Over the last few weeks we have been at work on several different tile projects. So for those of you who are extremely curious about what we actually labor at through the week, this is your update. :)

To start we worked with the whole tile crew one morning in the kitchen. No, we weren't peeling carrots or chopping cabbage, this was stage 4 or 5 of kitchen tile update.  We have one more kitchen job some time in the future, but the kitchen crew can't handle the tile crew tearing up their whole kitchen for any length of time ( it isn't like they can close for repair or remodel ).  The tile work has to be in doses that can be contained where kitchen crew can work around us.  So after walls and ceilings crew put up a temporary surround and the boys put down the tile for the soup station, Jeremy and I were a part of the grouting party. {a grouting party is the hyped up name for when everyone is needed to pull a big, time-sensitive job.  personally I don't call something  a party unless cake and balloons are somewhere in the mix. and there was none of that on this job}

 
   



However, it is something to behold when your crew can grout 600 plus square feet in approx 3 hours.

Especially considering the grout is an epoxy - the consistency of chewing gum - that must be mixed for exactly 2 minutes, spread into the tile joints for precisely twenty minutes then initially scrubbed and followed up with a heavy handed final wash requiring about 30 buckets of clean water and at least a dozen new sponges.

Whew! 

Jeremy was involved in initial scrub and I was a final washer. And as you might imagine we had QUITE a safety meeting on protecting our skin just before the "party".

 

 

  With a tile crew that can work like that you'd think we labor non-stop!  But this crew takes advantage of moments of down time, just like everybody else!  Technology anyone?

 

 

 

 

 We have also found ourselves spending lots of time this week in the basement of the E Res tiling the women's locker room. 

 



 
Earlier the crew put in the floor. Jeremy came in on the shower work and I came in when it was grouting time for the showers and the baseboards. Following that we are now into caulking everything that wasn't grouted.

 

 

So when Sunday came around this week we were happy to take a break from the inside.

After service and the meeting, two of our sisters in the congregation took us to some scenery at the Deleware Water Gap National Park (15 minutes outside of Milford, PA). 

 

Here is where we hiked to Dingmans Falls with a few other Bethelites.

 

So that puts us back around to a Monday. :)  See you next week!