Lest you think that it
has been all work and no play for us, we have explored some of the extensive recreation
resources of this resort area. Tuesday
morning, on the way to Wildwood, we decided to take a scenic thirty or so mile
tour along the barrier islands, through the towns of Ocean City, Strathmere,
Sea Isle City, Avalon and Stone Harbor.
Each one was filled with picturesque wood-framed houses, intriguing
shops, restaurants and marinas and miles of sandy beaches. That evening, we visited the small Somers
Point public beach to watch the harbor and the changing lights on the Ocean
City bridge. Wednesday evening we
explored the Ocean City boardwalk, along with thousands of other tourists. Ron invited us to join him for a ferris wheel
ride, from which we took in a great view of the boardwalk, beach and town.
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY IN NEW JERSEY
Your mission team had
busy and challenging work days on Tuesday and Wednesday. We spent all day Tuesday working with the
team from Maryland at the Wildwood home.
Among the projects we worked on were cutting and painting the baseboard
trim, for the Maryland team to install, touching up minor defects on the walls,
working together to complete installation of the bamboo laminate floors and painting
the posts on the rear porch. The most
challenging task was installing the kitchen cabinets. It turned out that the design Lowes
prepared for the kitchen was incorrect, the cabinets delivered did not match
the design, and one of the cabinets was severely damaged. After a great deal of head-scratching and
consultation with our Construction Foreman Paul Codella, a solution was figured
out, and plans were made to return unneeded cabinets, ordering replacements and
transferring a drawer from one unit to another.
Wednesday brought a
splitting up of the team. Ron stayed
behind to help complete installation of the kitchen cabinets. One of the Maryland team members purchased
curtain material and rods, borrowed a sewing machine from Paul and made
curtains for the homeowners. The
Maryland folks completed replacement of the interior window mouldings. Marshall, Pat and Frank picked up work on a
house on the west side of Ocean City, a couple of blocks away from the bridge
connecting Somers Point and Ocean City.
This new project has a
significantly different set of challenges.
Being on the west side of the island, the water from Sandy pushed 4 to 4
½ feet of water eastwards on to the shore.
The biggest part of the reconstruction of this home, which appears to
have been built in the 1920s, went into bringing the house up to code. The entire plumbing, HVAC and electrical
systems had to be replaced, plus numerous structural modifications had to be
made. About a third of the first floor
and portions of the drywall had been removed for the plumber inspection to be
made, so the balance of the week we expect to be re-installing the flooring and
drywall.
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