About 35 years ago (before I was at this Church) the congregation decided to build a new auditorium next to their current church plant. It would be joined by a hallway that pretty much surrounds the auditorium.
They made a tragic mistake, by allowing the roof of this "between the buildings" foyer and hallway to be a flat roof, onto which all of the rainwater from the existing building AND the new building flow. MANY attempts have been made to correct the error - sealing the bricks on the walls above the roof, foam roof, patch roof, new flashing --- TWO of the projects cost $40,000 EACH!!!!
The most recent was one of those "spray on foam" jobs, and the roof still leaked, but that contractor (he was a biggie) got sued out of business because he roofed a bunch of buildings down in Galveston, and they didn't fare too well under hurricanes - and the seagulls would come eat the roof then poop Styrofoam on the beaches and die.
Whenever we would have a hard blowing rain (particularly from the north or east) we could count on the ceiling tiles in the hallway getting drenched, to the point of collapsing soggy wet onto the floor, then we'd have to get out the wet vacs, have a major cleanup, dry the carpet, repeat. Literally.
hallway 1.jpghallway 2.jpg
About a year ago, a man who attends our Church occasionally, offered to pay for the repair of the roof, if the Church would agree to purchase a new air conditioner (roof mounted) which needed desperately to be replaced. (It would be silly to remove that bad AC unit, fix the roof, then put that bad AC unit back in place. The new AC unit was going to be about $40,000. We simply, at that time, didn't have the funds.
The man decided to back out of the deal - his part without the AC was going to be about $60,000.
Last winter, we had yet another horrible rain episode, ceiling tiles collapsing, soggy wet stuff, wet vac, cleanup, repeat.... I posted a few pictures on Facebook.
That evening, I got an email from the general contractor advising me that the project was "back on the front burner", to be paid in FULL by "others".
Work started today - here's the old AC unit being lifted off the roof.
old AC going away.jpg
That's over $100,000 worth of NEW ROOF that isn't costing the Church a single DIME!!!!
Praise God from whom all blessings flow!!!
They made a tragic mistake, by allowing the roof of this "between the buildings" foyer and hallway to be a flat roof, onto which all of the rainwater from the existing building AND the new building flow. MANY attempts have been made to correct the error - sealing the bricks on the walls above the roof, foam roof, patch roof, new flashing --- TWO of the projects cost $40,000 EACH!!!!
The most recent was one of those "spray on foam" jobs, and the roof still leaked, but that contractor (he was a biggie) got sued out of business because he roofed a bunch of buildings down in Galveston, and they didn't fare too well under hurricanes - and the seagulls would come eat the roof then poop Styrofoam on the beaches and die.
Whenever we would have a hard blowing rain (particularly from the north or east) we could count on the ceiling tiles in the hallway getting drenched, to the point of collapsing soggy wet onto the floor, then we'd have to get out the wet vacs, have a major cleanup, dry the carpet, repeat. Literally.
hallway 1.jpghallway 2.jpg
About a year ago, a man who attends our Church occasionally, offered to pay for the repair of the roof, if the Church would agree to purchase a new air conditioner (roof mounted) which needed desperately to be replaced. (It would be silly to remove that bad AC unit, fix the roof, then put that bad AC unit back in place. The new AC unit was going to be about $40,000. We simply, at that time, didn't have the funds.
The man decided to back out of the deal - his part without the AC was going to be about $60,000.
Last winter, we had yet another horrible rain episode, ceiling tiles collapsing, soggy wet stuff, wet vac, cleanup, repeat.... I posted a few pictures on Facebook.
That evening, I got an email from the general contractor advising me that the project was "back on the front burner", to be paid in FULL by "others".
Work started today - here's the old AC unit being lifted off the roof.
old AC going away.jpg
That's over $100,000 worth of NEW ROOF that isn't costing the Church a single DIME!!!!
Praise God from whom all blessings flow!!!
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