Tag: Trim Repair

  • Unveiling York First Parish Church,  (we took the staging down).

    Unveiling York First Parish Church, (we took the staging down).

    Ed, doin’ the Pick Shuffle

    Last week, we dropped the staging from the front of the York First Parish Church.  After the 24 ft picks were lowered smoothly, we took apart the rest of the ledgers and standards like a rogue band of dismantling Doozers.  Staging takedowns like that don’t just happen, they are engineered, by people like Keith Trefethen.  Thanks, Keith!  When the staging was finally on the ground,  and we were sweeping up the last of the debris, we heard a rustle in the trees — the collective sigh of York’s most elegant wedding planners.

    For more photos of the takedown, explore our Flickr album.

  • Trim Time

    Geometrim
    Geometrim

    These past few weeks, with the inclement weather, the York Congregational trim has kept us busy in the shop. Using a steam box, we carefully scraped the lead paint from the trim pieces, made dutchman repairs, and filled nail holes with West System epoxy. We were able to repair 90% of the scroll-shaped trim that surrounds the clock-faces, and about half of the curved pieces that create the outline of the clock-faces. The pieces at the bottom of the curve collect the most rainwater, and all needed to be replaced.  In order to cut the bevel on the concave edge of the new circular trim, Keith tilted the table of the bandsaw, and made a circular track for the trim to ride in.

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