The next time that you visit a church, village hall or similar building with high ceilings, walls and eaves spare a thought for how these beautiful buildings are cleaned.
This week we caught up with Nicola, member of the church community and overseer of the social media content at St. Paul’s, Daybrook to discuss their recent clean up and the amount of work required to maintain these buildings for everyone in the various communities.
Nicola was very excited about an upcoming refresh of the hall which is due to take place during August and will be done by a painter & decorator local to the church.
However, before the work can begin in August the hall required cleaning and Nicola told us that “On Saturday July 22, with feather dusters in hand, we met at the church to start the big clean up of the church hall”
PHOTOS: Courtesy of St Paul’s
The team at the hall are used to working at heights and have their very own scaffolding tower to get to those hard to reach places as can be seen from the pictures.
Nicola added: “We needed to use our scaffolding (usually wheeled out for Christmas Tree time) and hire an industrial vacuum to reach up into the rafters.
“There were jobs for everyone as we removed radiators, hoovered inside them and washed behind them, washed down paintwork and windows, dusted high and low (for those scared of heights) and of course we had a chief hot water changer and tea maker !”
A passionate advocate for keeping the the history and memories of buildings alive for all of us, Nicola added “whilst the maintenance of buildings of this age takes consideration, care and planning, we are proud of being able to put them to fabulous use for our church and local Daybrook community.
“Thank you to everyone who helped in any way to get this work done. We look forward to opening the doors to the refreshed hall later in the summer.”
The hall, located near Arnold is used for groups and events during the year and St Pauls looks forward to welcoming new groups in the future.
St Pauls can be contacted on their Facebook Page HERE or via thier website at https://www.stpaulsdaybrook.co.uk/
