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Timeline and areas

  • Refurbishment OF RC
    • December 2025 (RC Kitchen Floor)
    • Male and female dorms
    • Other accommodations
  • RC Kitchen ready for
    • In person retreat in May 2025

Steps (to sort)

(Before WR)

  • Area around RC Kitchen
  • Move Furniture Stores
  • Move storage rooms
  • Move Book Stores
  • Move RC Store ?
  • Move Guest rooms (some rooms are used during the WR)
  • Move Bodhi House Rooms
  • Sangha Room
  • Junk Yard
  • Removing roofing in front and behind the kitchen
  • Removing cold room
  • Get rid of old Cooker, spin dryer (barn) ?

Furniture Store

  • Furniture store emptied by the end of December (furniture and books)

  • Cleaned by the work monk.

Temporary Sala

  • Completely empty for end of December

  • plus 3 rooms to be emptied

  • and clean the place

  • RC keep the grey mat big

Guest Rooms and Bodhi House

  • liaise with Guest Monk Nun and bodhi house and empty the room

  • RC needs 5-6 rooms for helpers (3-5 is taken, 4-(6) plus 17+18)

  • Rooms 12-13-14-15 will be vacated before the WR (10, 11, 12 used already)

    • Need to arrange this room to be ready for the WR

  • As soon as possible, at the end of April (transition down), people go out of RC, bodhi house as well. May Month need to be emptied. Going back to old standard

  • Don't book anyone after the WR?

  • Work monk help with cleaning the rooms of RC

Storage puzzle

  • Move second bay of the workshop to the new workshop first 
  • or using the containers to store the books and furnitures temporarily

Maria's Note about Kitchen

Ideally, the former dining area can be cleared at the beginning of the winter retreat as the floor needs to be looked at and repaired.
That needs to be liaised with the site manager Eleanora

In the DINING AREA (linoleum) are at present : two cupboards RCK6  and RCK7, the big grey Gram fridge B1 (All marked on the attached present kitchen plan)
 and the small freezer next to the big fridge, the chest freezer B3 has stopped working and the little one was taken from the RC kitchen container.
All that needs to be moved into the KITCHEN AREA  (red floor tiles).

There is a counter fridge with drawers next to the back sink.
It needs repairs to its drawers and to be moved to the other side of the sink.

The area between the combi oven and the counter fridge  I need to find a table /cupboard that will fit into the space between that fridge and combi oven.

The previous cupboard will not fit anymore due to the combi oven .
I would like to find out if one can put the filter for the combi oven on the shelf of the combi oven table, as that will free up more space for a longer cupboard.

Everything else, please move out, take off the walls and the ceiling.

If some furnishings, shelves, etc are not being used in the new main kitchen, please let me know. Some of it could be used in the Retreat Centre Kitchen.

 Empty both larders, including big metal cabinet

Empty sangha room except the white cupboards: 

Empty flower shed: but leave the  high up shelves 

The kitchen does not need any of the blue containers nor the walk in fridge behind the kitchen.

There are also the old cooker  from the old kitchen and the industrial spin dryer from the monks' scullery. 
Can they go on eBay, free cycle or taken to the recycling. They are now in the back of the kitchen under the  extracting duct.

Most of the old RC kitchen and dining room furniture will be used again, which is stored in the RC kitchen container.

It would be good   to put the RC kitchen in place and have it as back up for the main kitchen and store surplus main monastery kitchen cupboards etc in the freed space if there will be a storage issue.
It is possible to use the kitchen with RC kitchen equipment as it was used in the past when the old kitchen was refurbished.  

Drawing of Monastery RC kitchen furnishing .png

Inventory

Cupboard 

Ref Description W D H use in TK use in NK
S1 Servery with wheels 183 60 65

S2 Servery with wheels 183 60 65

S3 Servery with wheels 183 60 65

S4 Servery with wheels 180 60 65








CK3 Cupboard, open, 2 shelves 150 60 90

CK11 Drawer set, 3d 60 60 90








NS1 Cupboard (HW urn) 120 65 85

NS2 Cupboard 150 65 87








CK2 Cupboard, open, 2 shelves 180 65 90

CK10 Drawer set, 3d 60 65 89








RCK6 Cupboard (servery) with drawers/shelves 153 69 90

RCK7 Cupboard (servery) with shelves 232 70 90






















RCK13 Cupboard (Water Urn, cups etc), wood 156 52 92 not needed
RCK 14 Cupboard, wood 92 60 155 not needed

Tables

Ref Description W D H use in TK use in NK
MS3 Table with shelf (recycling) 122 76 90

RCK8 Table, 1 shelf 122 76 91

CK4 Prep table, 1 shelf, 1 drawer 120 75 89

CK5 Prep table, 1 shelf, 1 drawer 120 75 89

CK7 Prep table, 1 shelf, 1 bottomless drawer 150 65 89

CK6 Prep table, 1 shelf 150 65 89

NS3 Table (no shelf) 90 65 87








CK8 Prep table, 1 shelf 180 65 89

CK9 Prep table, 1 shelf 120 65 89

CK12 Table 60 60 90

CK13 Table with shelf 60 60 90

RCK10 Table, no shelf 100 60 90

RCK9 Table, no shelf 237 80 90

RCK12 Prep table (1 shelf, wood base) 195 101 87

RCK11 Prep Table 224 59 85

Equipment

Ref Description W D H use in TK use in NK
F1 Fridge 65 60 190

F2 Fridge 65 60 190

F3 Fridge 3 (glass door) 65 60 196

B1 Fridge (ex RC) 70 90 200

B2 Freezer 1 112 65 88

B3 Freezer 2 162 65 88








RCK17 Freezer (RC office) 55 60 85 maybe
RCK2 Countertop fridge 90 70 88 insert in cupboard row
RCK3 Fridge + freezer 60 65 198 not needed
RCK18 Fridge (RC office) 59 60 184 not needed
RCK1 Stove (10 fires, 2 ovens) 153 80 91

CK24 Wok cooker 93 105 125 not needed
CK23 Stove (6 fires, 1 oven) 91 80 91 not needed

Sinks

Ref Description W D H use in TK use in NK
RCK4 Sink (north side) 220 60 88

MS1 Sink with shelf (laundry) 207 65 95

NS4 Sink (double) with shelf 266 70 91 substitute with NS4
CK1 Sink with shelf (175) 253 80 92

RCK5 Sink (east side) 480 80 92

MS2 Sink with shelf (dishwashing) 250 82 93

Other

Ref Description W D H
use in TK use in NK
MS4 Steel Trolley 98 41 111


RCK 15 Shelf rack w/wheels, 4s 60 60 196


CK21 Shelf set with wheels, 5s 150 40 180


NS10-11 Wall shelf (2x) 180 35 30 in alcove?

CK15-16 Wall shelf (2x) 90 35 30 in alcove?

CK17-20 Wall shelf (4x) 120 35 30


NS9 Wall shelf 120 35 30


CK22 Draining/towel hanger wall shelf 80 27 20 side of north sink?

CK14 Mixer stand (wood) 69 60 76


S4 Sala trolley (wood) 100 70 110


RCK13 Cupboard (Water Urn, cups etc), wood 156 52 92 not needed

RCK 14 Cupboard, wood


not needed

NS8 Broom cupboard (plastic) 70 43 182 not needed

RCK 16 Shelf rack white 120 34 164 throw away!!

Possible dining room chairs

possible dining room chair1.jpg

possible dining room chchai2.jpeg

Time off

Maria: February (ideally)
Jenna: January 

Jenna Notes

Transition: Retreat Centre Household

1) Temporary Furniture Store / RC Men’s Dorm:
* Non-RC Furniture and Books to be removed by end of December at latest.
*  RC Furniture left in room – we will sort this.
* Then Room deep – cleaned by work monk/nun teams (hasn’t been cleaned for 4 years!)
*  IMPORTANT:  Where can furniture and books go? Will Old workshop be empty?
                             

2) Temporary Sala / RC Women’s Dorm:
* If Possible, vacate by end on December?
* Doors in side wall to be reconverted to windows by contractors 
   Hopefully during Winter Retreat Jan or Feb?. (To check with Eleonora about this).
* We will then set up women’s dorm during winter retreat (March)


3) Other Rooms in RC Currently used by Guests and Bodhi House:
* Winter Retreat: It’s Ok for these to be occupied during winter retreat as usual.
*  But we will need some room for RC helpers during this time too. We suggest:
    RC uses about 5 rooms to include 4,5,6 and two of the male guest rooms (17,18)
* This would leave 6 rooms for male winter retreat helpers and 6 for female.
    Guest monk: 16,19, 20, 21, 22, 23; Guest nun: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 ,15 (see below)
* Note: 3 Rooms off Sala – currently used for storage (13,14,15) to be reconverted to rooms
   For winter retreat female guest use.
* April: We will continue to need some rooms for helpers in April.
   As suggested winter retreat helpers could stay on until the end of April.
   Suggest that from start of April, new guests only booked into Karunasom/ male guest area
   But people staying on after winter retreat can stay on in RC up to end of April if needed.
* We would ask that s rooms are vacated, they can also have a deep clean.
* Also suggest maybe no new Bodhi House bookings in RC from April.
* May: We need to have RC completely vacated by start of May to prepare rooms.
* Items in the RC Rooms to be labelled. NB almost all furniture is RC furniture.
   A few items go to monastery – eg table in room 7.


4) Items to be Returned to RC:
* In Heartwood House there are currently about 6 beds belonging to the RC.
   These were borrowed by a previous Lodgings monk when the monks moved into the
   House as there were no beds there. But on the understanding that they were just on loan 
   And would be given back when retreats resumed.
* So we will be needing them back by the beginning of April at the latest. And the Lodgings
    Monk will need to find some new beds and also mattresses which also came from the RC.
    The bedding belongs to Heartwood.  I will contact the Lodgings monk and copy you in –
    I forgot to mention this when we spoke.      

Return Bed form Heartwood House: A previous lodgings monk had asked to borrow about 6 RC beds and mattresses when the monks moved into Heartwood House (around 2021/22?) on the understanding that they would be returned when we needed them to start up retreats again. So that time has come- or will shortly come! And we will need those beds and mattresses back- I would say around the start of April. So the current Lodgings monk and monks community will need to get some new beds and mattresses from somewhere by early April. 


          

To Do

  • label with tape what is RC, what is SALA
    • Red is RC
    • Yellow is SALA

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Cittadhammo Bhikkhu
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