Your Roof – Sieve repairs No 3As of Thursday 28th March, when a site meeting was held with the Alfie Spencer and Andy Hare from the main contractors Pinnacle, Carl Andrews our architect and Jess Rudman and Phill Kicks representing St John’s. I am happy to submit my Third report on the Roof project. The main scaffolding is 60% complete on the north side, due to be completed 5th March including high level scaffolding.All metal drainage work for the North side has been ordered and the lead time indicates delivery week commencing 8th April. Pointing work to be started on South side will start in conjunction with tiler week commencing 8th April.Work on the south rood is proceeding at a pace and tiles will be delivered Tuesday the 2nd for installation commencing 8th once all final prep work done. (small forklift working in area as there are 3000 tiles to be moved).Fitting of all tiles to South Roof expected to take 4 weeks then a possible 2 more weeks for lead dressing and finishing up. Which would put a expected completion of South roof mid-May.The stripping of North roof will start as soon as the Guttering is fitted, as there will be a larger team on the North side it will progress quicker, as it is a more complex roof the expected completion will be delayed, no dates as yet for delivery of second set of 3000 tiles but it will take place on either a Tuesday or Wednesday morning as soon as required the target completion date for all tiling and lead dressing is end of May.The next major milestonesTiles being delivered 2nd April.North roof work starting 8th April.South Roof completely watertight end April
Your Roof – Sieve repairs No 2Well it certainly lived up to its name when the archdeacon was trying to speak, the leak was down to damage of tiles while removing high level scaffolding. Otherwise known as a large hole. Now temporarily repaired.All metal drainage work has been ordered and fitted to the high level. This was delayed slightly due to wrong type being ordered. Investigations have taken place now that the roof scaffolding is in place which identified some pointing was needed around high level windows and a variation was agreed to repoint. Investigation into roof woodwork took place and no issues were found so work can proceed as planned.Work has started on roof removal on the south side. Project timeline is being escalated.The scaffolding is going up on the North side of the Church. Commenced 19/03. This is to enable a second team of roofers to start, both sides will be managed by Alfie and the foreman Rob Mitchell. This will enable us to achieve the final date for final completion and billing being 30th June.A discussion was held regarding the tiles. It was originally planned to recycle 50% of the old tiles and 50% new. However, when the investigation of the woodwork took place it was identified that some sealant had been used and as a result there are no reusable tiles. We were given two options 1. To go for all new tiles or 2. To use reclaimed. We chose the reclaimed as all new was to prohibitive in costs. Reclaimed will still require us to use some of the contingency funding.The next major milestonesStrip down of the south roof. To start 21/03 onwardsScaffolding on the North side to start. Started 19/03A meeting was held with Pinnacle on 18/03 following complaint raised regarding poor workmanship and the large water leak in church following High Level scaffolding removal. Issues were discussed and apologies were given, it was agreed that it should not have happened. Discussion over damage was discussed and would be discussed further when more access available to assess damage. It was also agreed that more supervision would be given to site to avoid such a re-occurrence of problem……Phill
The Scaffolding is complete on the South side. All metal drainage work has been ordered and delivery expected 12/02 and work on site to start 13/02Investigations have taken place now that the roof scaffolding is in place which identified some issues but a workaround was put in place. With the work planned to start week commencing 12/02 a very extensive discussion was held with the main points highlighted below.Toilet issues for staff on site, due to drainage, issue resolved Portaloo ordered £35 per week as variation. And also means no unlocking every morning.Project was 4 weeks behind according to plan which with the current plan would run into at a minimum July-August. This was not acceptable.The plan was revised in light of the time factor which will see the scaffolding going up on the North side of the Church in the near future. A new plan to be with the original requirements. With final completion and billing being 30th June.As a result of all the discussions the project is being replanned and realigned as per the original guidelines. The next major milestonesRoofers on site and starting work.New guttering fittedStrip down of the south roof.Scaffolding on the North side to start.
Thanks to Lottery funding the work on the spire has been completed. The clock refurbishment, painting and gilding is complete with the time set a 12;00. The clock will be started once training has been given.Work on the repair of the 2 lower roofs of the church will be started once the scaffolding is in place.
