The pendant lights are back in the nave, fully cleaned and refurbished.
The subfloor of the nave is now fully installed. The material used, over an inch thick, is installed on the diagonal and similar to what would have been used when the church was built. A layer of felt and the finished floor will go on top.
There’s light in the nave and lots of progress to see. The pendant lights, seen above, have been cleaned and are brighter in every way. Atop the pendants, “the hats” turned out to be red under 50 years of dirt. Inside the pendants, a new configuration of bulbs will shine light both up and down creating a much greater sense of light in the nave.
Down below, the subfloor has made all manner of other work feasible. With a stable surface, the moving scaffolding allows workers to finish plaster work, patching, and painting.
More pictures are after the break.
A beautiful new door is being readied for the new entrance.
An unused porch on the Discovery Place side of the church has been converted into an additional front entrance. Seen here is a new door being installed.
The former organ chamber has been repurposed as a parclose chapel, built in the same style as the side chapel on the opposite side. Archways have been created to match and balance the original archways. And since a "rib" was missing because of the old organ pipes, a new one has been constructed in the same style as all the others.
Registers for handling the air were specially designed and installed along the aisles. Built to resemble a large baseboard, they are part of the system of moving air slowly and quietly into the room.
