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The Orphanage grounds have been constructed over the last forty-five years by many people with varying experience.  Our home is always needing updating.  Your expertise would be greatly appreciated! If you want to help, contact Roy Ketring to arrange your trip.  Then contact Facilities & Maintenance Coordinator, Floyd Hoffman.  Let him know what project(s) you are interested in.

Make sure and check out the Resources page to see vendors that others have worked with.  

Home Depot Paint Formula
For the Orphanage's classic red paint
BEHR - Premium Plus exterior semi gloss Hampstead-upw (C40-85-UPW) Ultra pure White (5050) 5 gallons

COLORANT  OZ  48  96
C  Yellow Oxide 3  16  0
I Brown Oxide 1  32  0
L Raw Umber 0  40  0

There are several Home Depot locations in San Diego and in Mexico and Ensenada.

Projects List - old, but currently being updated

For an up-to-date list, contact Floyd Hoffman, coordinator of Facilities and Maintenance.

Priority

Kitchen/Dining Room
• Replace sink faucets
• Install shelves on the wall that have lockable doors (near water heater)
• New floor (tile)
• Repair entrance doors in kitchen and dining room
• Change door handles/knobs
• Repair walls (holes)
• Paint

Boys' Room/Dorm
Bathroom
• Replace sink faucets
• Install new linoleum on floor and install baseboard

Room 1
• Install closet doors
• Install closet floor (linoleum)
• Build 2 sturdy four-drawer dressers

Room 2
• Build 2 sturdy 4-drawer dressers
• Repair broken floor tile
• Install interior entrance door to Teenage Boys' Room

Boys' Living Room
• Construct book shelves across one wall

Girls' Room/Dorm

• Repair closet doors
• Change interior door (in front of the closet)
• Change interior door and install new door handle
• New paint
• Build book shelves in "Rincon de Cuentos" - room adjacent to girls' interior bathroom
• Repair closet doors
• Change interior door (in front of the closet)
• Change interior door and install new door handle
• New paint
• Build book shelves in "Rincon de Cuentos" - room adjacent to girls' interior bathroom

Girls' Bathroom
• Install ceramic floor tile
• Change exterior door and install new door handle

Babies' Room / Nursery

Baby Girls' Room
• Install closet doors
• Construct a large sturdy dresser inside the closet
• Repair bathtub faucets
• Install new linoleum bathroom floor
• Install new linoleum in raised bathtub area
• Change entrance door and install new door handle

Nanny's Room 1
• Construct a large sturdy dresser inside he closet
• Install closet doors
• Paint
• Change entrance door and install new door handle

Nanny's Room 2
• Construct a large sturdy dresser inside he closet
• Install closet doors
• Paint
• Change entrance door and install new door handle
• Replace outet covers
• Replace switch covers
• Install new floor tile

Boys' Room
• Construct a large sturdy dresser inside the closet
• Install closet doors
• Paint

Ironing Room
• Install new door
• Install doors over blanket shelves
• Replace outlet covers
• Replace switch covers
• New ceiling

Kitchen
• Paint white
• Install new baseboard

Living Room
• Remove the electrical outlets in Children's Playroom
• Paint
• Replace entire suspended ceiling

Orphanage Outside/Grounds

• Remove and construct a new outside sink facility with new faucets
• Paint exterior wall on buildings
• Construct a new Visitors' Shower and Bathroom Facilities
• Install concrete driveway from entrace gate to join existing concrete near buildings with the width approximately from the Basketball court to the Clinic/Office Building
• Complete the construction of the concrete wall 6-feet high that separates Ramon and Magdalena's property from the Orphanage
• Install chain link fencing on top new wall that separates Ramon and Magdalena's property from Orphanage grounds and construct a high chain link fence along the north end of the Basketball Court
• Install a new wall along the front of the Orphanage property adjacent to the street
• Install an electric gate closer on the north gate of the new property
• Replace toilets with efficient water saving toilets

 

     

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