Yorito Construction Mission March 19th through 25th, 2007

* Future Medical Clinic

Part of our assignment was to scope out a possible site for the construction of a proposed medical clinic in Yorito. Land, across the road from the front of the church, was a suggested site but the landowner was out of town and not available until April.

The Cruzadas folks are ahead of the game on this and have a suitable site in mind for this new clinic. They are offering, and suggest that the clinic be built, on the flat area behind Modesto’s church. This way, there would be no land cost and no property title to be prepared. We measured the lot at 50 ft. by 170 ft., which I think is adequate size for the clinic. An entry road to this site could be made in two different locations. There is a group of builders called Kingdom Builders who specialize in projects like this (two of our team members have experience with this, that might provide the management skills to build this clinic). I would recommend that concrete, tile, and/or sheet metal be used, as opposed to wood, for reasons that I will cover under the following comments.

* Church Preparation for Team Living

Decisions were made by David and Harriet Kelly that the long-term goal for the upstairs of the church, is a team dormitory. The three small rooms at the back of the church (downstairs) are to contain the team kitchen. The soup kitchen will continue to operate out of Pastor Modesto’s new parsonage. We feel that this would tie-in nicely with the new clinic, if it is built, or continue using the down stairs of the church, if it is not built.

Accordingly, we started to prepare for repairing the floor of Modesto’s old living area: new bathrooms floors and walls upstairs, porch repairs, and kitchen expansion down stairs.

Supplies are hard to come by in Yorito, so we scoped our needs and went shopping. The first two saw mills in Yoro (there’s really no such thing as a “lumber yard”) turned us away at the gate as they were only selling export lumber. The third mill let us go through their cull area and agreed to sell some of it.

There was no way that we could we buy enough wood to replace all the bad flooring, so we bought enough to replace rotten joyces and beams, tongue and groove lumber. We also bought the first of replacement plumbing and some plywood, with the idea in mind that we would over-lay the existing wood flooring, making a base for the new bathrooms stronger than simply a one-ply floor. We could not find to buy siding or shower stalls.

* Work Accomplished

Old toilets and shower was removed, wall in down-stairs kitchen was removed for additional space, and rotten beams along the outside of the cantilever was scabbed or replaced. These means we have to have siding which doesn’t exist. So, off David goes to El Progesso and the Lord does provide siding and green board for the bathrooms. We find some horrible smelling liquid treatment for termites, two new toilets, and four new sinks. We were now buried in supplies and time is running out. We will have a building drawing and a plumbing plan to show in detail the plan we started. (For future team efforts). We chose not to install the toilets as a key part, called a stool flange, was not available. (We are shipping 4 of these on the next container, along with 4 shower stalls and plumbing fixtures).
We over-laid the repaired flooring in the new bathroom area with plywood and the porch area with tongue and groove lumber. A wall was built to separate the men’s and women’s restroom/shower areas. One side was left unfinished to ease the plumbing installation in the future. Both bathrooms will have two showers, two toilets and two sinks when they are installed. I think most of this work can be done while a clinic is occurring down stairs, if a little planning is done.

We also repaired or replaced the sewage line to give it more fall and removed the generous supply of rocks in it. I see no reason why this shouldn’t be a normal system (toilet paper allowed) when it is done. But I would differ to other experts on this subject.

* Supplies left or in Transit
4 toilets (2 new)
4 new sinks
3 or 4 sheets of green board
20 + 2 x 4
Some 6 in. and 10 in. flooring
Some 2 x 6 lumbar
4 new shower stalls and toilet flanges and sink faucets as well shower cut offs
Tools (separate attachment)
Hole saws and PVC pipe and glue