| Editor: Brother Bruno Bonnet-Eymard | N° 95 – August 2010 |
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THE CATHOLIC COUNTER-REFORMATION
IS THRIVING IN CANADA
On Monday, 26 April, excavator, bulldozer, and dump truck went into action to dig the foundations of a new building that will double the size of our Maison Saint-Georges, which has become too small for our sisters in Canada. I was there! Since then the work has been done at a good pace. In May, after having placed the drains, they poured the cement for the footing below the frost line and for the basement, then for the living space. This cement was poured into reinforced polyurethane foam moulds that offer the great advantage of being perfectly insulated.
The brothers spare no strain to be of service to the sisters! Since May, they have already installed the floor on the ground level, structural walls and insulation in the basement, and the rigid wire lattice that will reinforce the cement floor. While awaiting the cement mixers, they assemble the walls of the first floor, beginning with the half-timbered exterior walls that will be filled with insulation, then the exterior will be roughcast with fibrocement and the interior plaster panelled. It will be ready for the freezing cold!
MAISON SAINT-GEORGES IN JULY
The work has progressed so well over a month that the roof structure of the new building has already been installed and shingled (compare with last month’s photo above). Now that the shell of the building has been completed, the house is water-tight. The brothers are now going to attack the interior fittings and the exterior facing.
