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.

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.
 
 
 



 

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