A reason for the sunburn...
Oct. 13th, 2008 10:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morslaI helped to paint a church on the weekend.
From the saying "many hands make light work," I guess it follows that not-so-many hands make for slightly harder going... we had seven hands between the four of us, as Wally broke his wrist a few weeks ago. The building in question was the venerable Blackwood Uniting Church, as it sorely needed a bit of paint on the exposed walls.
I had the job of ladder-monkey, and balanced on a trestle while trying to remove a century's paint with a sharp scraper. Probably not the most efficient way of doing it, but it seemed to work okay. Judging by the rainbow of paint chips we flaked off the timber, the building has been plenty of different colours over the last hundred and twelve years. It's now a nice sedate cream weatherboard with green edging - as close as we could make it to the (somewhat faded) colours it recieved last time, whenever that was.
I also found some random facts about the building here:
From the saying "many hands make light work," I guess it follows that not-so-many hands make for slightly harder going... we had seven hands between the four of us, as Wally broke his wrist a few weeks ago. The building in question was the venerable Blackwood Uniting Church, as it sorely needed a bit of paint on the exposed walls.
I had the job of ladder-monkey, and balanced on a trestle while trying to remove a century's paint with a sharp scraper. Probably not the most efficient way of doing it, but it seemed to work okay. Judging by the rainbow of paint chips we flaked off the timber, the building has been plenty of different colours over the last hundred and twelve years. It's now a nice sedate cream weatherboard with green edging - as close as we could make it to the (somewhat faded) colours it recieved last time, whenever that was.
I also found some random facts about the building here:
The [Blackwood Uniting] Church was established in 1896. Previously services in Blackwood had been held in the Mechanics Institute. The Church building was the old Barry’s Reef School and this was moved here to form the present Church.
During its one hundred years the Church has had no structural alterations but fortunately has always been well maintained and cared for mainly due to the work of the members of the congregation, their families and the Ladies Fellowship.
