Soft carpet, hard tile

The dormer at the back of the library has been capped, soffit and fascia applied and eavestroughs are up.








More work has been done on the canopy over the new entrance.







Moving inside, the entrance foyer and steps have the tile put into place. Grout still needs to be applied.





Upstairs, the carpet has been laid.









For the finale of this post, we head for the kitchen/staff room where the cabinets are being installed.

Inside and out

The front dormer has been finished by capping.

The HVAC system is coming along. The airconditioning units have been installed outside.

The fence has been removed from the front of the addition and the ground is leveled out.

The sidewalk in front of the addition has been replaced due to the wear and tear of big trucks (remember the cement trucks?)

Soffit and fascia are being applied to the eaves.

The entrance doors have been hung.

The foyer and stairs have been tiled. As well, the accessible bathroom upstairs, the kitchen and the emergency exit have been tiled.

The grid has been installed to hang the suspended ceiling in the downstairs of the addition.

Windows have been installed around the circulation area. They'll help keep us out of the draft, but give us a good view of the entrance.

Stained glass and lights

The ceiling lights have been installed in the upstairs of the addition.

The windows at the front of the building on the upper floor have had stained glass inserts custom made and installed to match the stain glass in the windows of the original building. The motif is "The Torch of Learning". Appropriate for a library?

The look for the entrance

This is the original medallion that was in the south dormer of the library. A historic touch for the new entrance. The masons finished just 15 minutes before this picture was taken.









The masons also finished the blocks around the elevator doors on all the levels.








The mechanical room is full of bright shiny steel. There are 3 different units since the library is 'zoned' to provide the proper temperatures on different levels. This will prevent the problem that we had in the past of trying to stay comfortable on the upper level while the basement was freezing in the summer. In such confined spaces, I couldn't get the proper angle to show the massive amounts of ductwork behind the units.

Masonry crew on the home stretch

The elevator doors have been propped open and the masons are back on the scene installing the blocks around the elevator door openings on each floor.

In the entrance way, one wall is being prepared for the insertion of the original 1910 medallion that graced the dormer in the south wall.







The brick has been evenly cut in preparation for capping the dormer.






The wall over the entrance way is now bricked.








The circulation area has been painted tan with Caroline's office painted a calming, ferny green. Some days we need all the calming we can get!

Various shades of steel

The steel framing has been put into place for the canopy over the entrance door.

This looks like an abstract image, but it is the elevator doors installed and the protective plastic is still on them.

Vistas

With all the material from downstairs moved to the upstairs, the temporary wall downstairs has been removed. This is taken from the former junior fiction room looking through into the addition (elevator pieces in the background).









Looking out what will be the new entrance.

Elevator tales

Here's our elevator - well the parts that make our elevator.













Start of the installation in the elevator shaft.







Looking up in the elevator shaft from the next level up, that's either a floor or a ceiling installed.

The pump that powers the elevator. Wonder if the mummy is going to permanently live with the elevator pump?

Crowded upstairs

Remember we had a temporary plywood wall covering the hole on the upper floor to the addition? That has been removed and a tarp now covers the hole. That made room for....










....more shelves upstairs. Over the last 3 days, all the children's material has been moved upstairs in order to free up the entire basement for the construction crew. We are certainly looking forward to a functional elevator when it comes time to take much of this back downstairs.

Donation to children's library

TD Canada Trust donated $5,000 to the children's section of the library. Pictured (from left to right): Charles Fitzsimmons, chair of library board; Linda McKay, Mitchell branch manager; and Ken Ahrens, construction coordinator. Every summer, the TD Canada Trust Summer Reading Program is held across Canada, including here at West Perth. Hilary Long of the Mitchell Advocate graciously allowed us to use this picture.

Seeing red

Ta-da! Our kitchen/staff room has been painted tan on 3 walls and a lovely deep red on the other wall. With plans to hang a bright poster on the red wall, we might never leave our breaks to go back to work!









The new sidewalk has been poured to the entrance. We resisted the temptation to scratch our initials into the wet cement.

Maybe initials this time?

The forms for new sidewalks to the entrance have been set up. Will Jim allow us to put tiny initials in the wet cement? Hmm. The truck delivering the elevator is in the background.

Uplifting day

A landmark day! Our elevator is being delivered! I didn't ask what part this was, but I suspect the floor?