Renovations Update: Making Progress

A few months ago we watched as renovations began in the South Stake Center. We thought it was just new internet service for us, and some paint on the walls. The internet change is still pending, and the paint project was not just putting on a new coat of paint. Instead a whole crew is systematically going through and completely stripping the old paint layers to the raw walls, then new plaster smoothed over all the wall surfaces, before primer followed by color. All this is manual labor with very little modern equipment.

The ground level seems to be progressing, the paint in the halls had been scraped and color going on, then today we heard new demolition noises, and found they are removing the tile and stalls in the rest rooms. WOW! They are really getting into this remodel project!

Up on the first floor (we would call it the second floor), our wing is progressing. We have gone from the demolition of the floor and piles of concrete rubble and scraping the paint off the walls to floating new tile floors, and today new paint on the walls. We are just not sure if they intend to go into classrooms and office, but the hall is showing promise. We are optimistic that in a year from now they should be done and the building should look amazing! (We hope it won't take that long. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland is coming to visit Cambodia in August and we are hoping they plan on the building looking wonderful by then.)