The Golden Hill Building Restoration Project passed it’s first milestone this past week, at our Church Council meeting, when Dick Dmochowski, President of the Board of Trustees, signed a contract with New England Masonry and Roofing Co. of Naugatuck, CT. for restoration of the church tower.
This $763,000 tower restoration project started in March and work will continue thru the end of February. The first visible element of the project will be the erection of scaffolding on all four sides of the tower and from top to bottom. This scaffolding will provide safe working platforms for the masonry repair work.
The work includes repointing all masonry joints, repair or replacement of all damaged stones or pre-cast elements, installation of soft lead sets of the vertical water-table joints, flashing and valley replacements where the tower sidewalls meet the adjoining roofs, new tower flat roofs, replacement of the upper roof hatch and the steel ladder to the upper roof, cleaning of the masonry surfaces, and waterproofing the surfaces after all work is completed.
The contract, provides a schedule of values for each element of work, the relative timing of each element, and provides details for the management of the contract. If you are interested in discussing the contract or reviewing the contract details, please contact either Dick Dmochowski or Dick Deible.
Parallel to the work that will be done by New England Masonry, we will take advantage of the project scaffolding to remove, restore, and replace the three Chancel stained glass windows. We plan to sign a contract for this work with Willett and Hauser, stained glass restoration specialists with a national reputation and a 100 year plus work history.
The tower restoration phase is the first of four planned phases that will be implemented over the next several years that will return the building’s exterior elements to their original, functioning levels.
