One of the many things that happens over the summer is building repairs and/or construction. We are lucky this summer because the Town approved Capital funding for new windows on the Middlesex Avenue side of the building, both floors. As a homeowner, I purchased new windows about 10 years ago. I signed the contract, picked the day, and voila, the windows were installed in one day. Wouldn’t that be a treat here at Brownstone!

There are 10 classrooms of furniture in the hallways. One of the emptied rooms now contains all of the windows piled up against the wall. The installers are hired and ready to go, but we have another project that needs to be completed first (the very old window caulking needs to be removed and contained). Once the mitigation is complete, the windows can be installed, and the classrooms can be put back together.  I am told the entire project will be completed by August 15th. I sure hope so, because we have students walking in the front door two and a half weeks after that!

In the meantime, the custodians are working around the “construction zone”, trying to clean up as much as they can, knowing that window replacement will raise a LOT of dust, which will then need to be cleaned up before we can reassemble the rooms.

I know we will be very happy with the new windows. The old ones leak so much that papers left on the window sill might be blown off during a stormy day with the windows closed!

I’d really like some classrooms painted, however, with the window project, I fear we will run out of time for that! Anyone ready for a “painting party” in the fall???