Prepping for Classroom Demolition

In preparation for the demolition of the front primary hallway, the inside of the rooms are literally being torn to pieces. 



This is one of the six classrooms at the end of the hallway that will be completely demolished very soon. 



The other end of the same classroom. 

Workers have been pulling out wiring and conduit before the demolition. 



The wiring that has been pulled out is piled in another classroom. 



More Miscelleaneous Shots

These are some more shots of various things around Clays Mill. 



The small portable that is located on the front of the property closest to Mary Queen is the general contractor's office (D.W. Wilburn). 



Pages and pages of plans are being used during the renovation. 

The site superintendent (in hard hat), finishes installing the temporary door that is located by the computer lab. 

Rocks are being added to the drainage ditch on the far side of the parking lot. 

More Kitchen Demolition

Workers are continuing to demolish the kitchen.  Here are the latest views.

This is the kitchen area directly behind the serving line. 

A worker was busy ripping out parts of the ceiling and throwing them to the floor. 

The photographer is standing in what used to be the cafeteria manager's office.  The storage room wall has been knocked out. 



This was the back prep area. 



Moving Team

Since almost every single classroom had to be moved this summer, a team of movers came in and took on the daunting task.  The team has moved boxes, desks, chairs, and even the trash cans.  The team consisted of about 15-20 people, each with a moving dolly.  Their synchronized moving allowed them to completely clear out a classroom and move the items into a village classroom in about 20 minutes.  It really was a sight to see.

In addition to moving the items in each of the classrooms, they also had to move some of our offices. 



Movers are lined up waiting to get filing cabinets off the moving truck.  Items that were in the offices downstairs were loaded on the moving truck and brought to the back door of the back hallway. 




It takes team work in order to get heavy, loaded filing cabinets off the truck. 



Miscelleaneous Photos

The following pictures are random things throughout the building. 




In an effort to be a good steward of our funds, the district is reusing various things from our building in other buildings.  An example is the removal of the door knobs and window inserts.  Other schools or buildings can make good use of these parts. 

 


This is a view of the primary hallway looking toward Mary Queen School. 

 


The trailer that is sitting out front now has steps to gain access. 

 




This is a view of the ceiling after a tile has been removed.  The large square is what remains of a skylight.  There were skylights in each room but were covered up in the 1983 renovation. 

  



This is a view of the underside of the building.  The portion that you can see is actually under the hallway and computer lab/library area. 

 




This is an empty classroom ready for renovation.  Notice that some of the ceiling tiles have been removed.  All of the tiles that had paintings from our former 5th grade students and art clubs were saved for a future project. 

 

Temporary Walls

In a matter of a couple of days, three temporary walls have been built within the building.  The walls will be used to separate renovation work from student areas.  The first wall was pictured in the previous post about the cafeteria. 

This wall is at the end of the hallway by the computer lab.  The classroom door you see was Mrs. Dowd's kindergarten classroom.  This wall separates all of the work being done on the primary hallway during Phase I. 

This is the same wall as pictured above but from the back. 

Tilt your head to the left (I apologize but my computer is refusing to keep these last two pictures roatated).
This is the view from the car hall downstairs.  Normally you would be looking at the classroom (formerly Mrs. Pickard's) at the opposite end of the hallway from the lobby.  The classroom is now a part of Phase I. 



This is another view of the same temporary wall.  The doorway will be blocked when renovation begins on this room. 



Kitchen Demolition

Demolition of the kitchen is in full swing this week.  Crew members are working hard removing appliances and hardware and others are knocking out the brick walls. 

This is one of the serving lines. 

This is the line after they began removing the ceiling and door frames.

A view of the stove, convection ovens, and sink. 

This is where the sink used to be. 

This is the dirty tray window. 

The crew members are busy dismantling the utility pieces in the sink room. 



This is a view of the holding refrigerator that is directly behind the serving line. 




This is the same view as above.  There is a large hole because the holding refrigerator was accessible from either side of the wall. 



This is the back of the kitchen area where most of the prep work happened. 



The same area is looking pretty bare. 



Another cooking appliance - not sure what is called but know that it is used for things like browning meat. 

Now it is gone. 

This is an out of focus photograph of the cafeteria manager's office (on the left).

The manager's office after removal of the ceiling and appliances.

The office no longer exists. 

The workers are demolisihing the walls that were a part of the storage room.