Spandrels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

New things this week and some more of the same seems to be the order of things.

[I thought this one had been posted but disovered tonight while trying to finish the next one that it had not.  I will post it and finish the other]

Roof & Stone

The dripping seems to have stopped but we still have blowers and humidifiers stored with us and we had a jury trial in the District Court that took most of the week.  It may be that they put some of that back out to dry things out a little more.

There is still a little smell that you notice when you first walk in but things are much improved.

The roofer is making headway on finishing the roof and their is now rain in the forecast toward the end of next week.

They tested the drains this week to see if they were draining.  We were concerned about one from the beginning.  Tests results may indicate we have more problems than just with the one.  Short version:  they pressured up something like a balloon in them to load the pipe with water and the water did not fill the pipe but no leaks found.. They don't know where the water went.  Into a parallel dimension hopefully!

The first round of the honing continues.  It has gone well but there are some spots in which the staining is deeper than others.  They are re-working those spots to go a little deeper.

Spandrels

They have taken down some more of the marble panels and we now have two back up which are located on the south elevation.  They are beautiful as you can see.  Notice now the blended color from the metal window frame.  It is a good match, I think.  These are in the same exact position from which they were removed.

Not all of their removal is easy.  Many of them are in more that one piece when they come down.  Each spandrell has a specific number in the scheme and each piece is then numbered and lettered to identify it.  I have a number of photos on pieces in 5 gallon buckets.  Here's a close up of one that was in pretty bad shape and then a couple of pics of another in pieces (note they are numbered and tagged for restoration).






I told you I would tell you about the Courhouse's first guardian and I will but will do it in next segment.