The first week the doors and windows were removed, the wood framing was pulled off and the concrete floor removal was started. The floor was only supposed to take a couple of days, but we discovered that instead of 4 to 6 inches of concrete there was as much as 30 inches in some places! We also found the water line and one of the electrical cables with the concrete saw. 
As the paving people proceeded to lay out the project in detail (all those stakes and orange lines on the ground) we found that there were several questions that needed to be answered by our civil engineer. This resulted in a meeting, and some minor redrawing of the paving plan. Our General Contractor Rick Mouw needed to get involved but had the misfortune of a heart problem and is in the hospital! He and his new pacemaker are doing well, he says he'll be back at work Monday... Paving will be delayed but will not effect the completion date, shell construction is still very much on track to finish in time. 
Concrete floor removal work finished up and they moved on to the walls. This went more smoothly but sure looks like hard work. You can see that the roof is supported with extra beams and jacks until the wall is gone and a steel beam is installed.
Good news/Bad news. As the dissassembly work progressed we found that the roof leaks under the stained glass windows that we fixed last year had caused quite a bit of damage over the years. Also a small colony of carpenter ants had moved in. Patti Muranti's brother Tony sprayed and they moved out. All this will be fixed in the process of rebuilding - that would be the blessing part!
Please check out the pictures for this and previous weeks. Here is the link to the Week 2 pictures.
http://picasaweb.google.com/photos.sjecs/Narthex11209Week2?authkey=qI-PqRydr_Y#
Peace, Ric Filer
Tad Knutson’s crew transplanted several trees both large and small to make way for the new paving. During the week the front of the church was pulled apart and the old carted away in anticipation of the new. The interior was walled off to protect the rest of the church during construction. The Narthex itself will be finished in about three months.
The paving work will take only about four weeks and for a while change our driving habits since the center of the campus is completely blocked off.
Tami Pleasanton and her staff have done a masterful job and risen to the challenge of redirecting the school traffic mornings and afternoons and the students all day long. Thanks for being so cheerful about the whole thing!
