Jobs to do

– Arrange trailer towing tests to upgrade drivers’ licenses as appropriate – ?
– Arrange veg oil conversion skill-share 5th or 19th April with www.veggiepower.co.uk

– Iveco (main dealer for spares/servicing): 0115 978 7274
… 522 Derby Road, Lenton. Nottingham NG7 2GX

[contact Dean 07984 638613 to help]

– Replace clutch – done £618
– Investigate increasing to 9 seats or reduce to 6 – can’t be done!

Veggies Online Shop

Investigate better online shop (Dean)
– write specification of requirements
… limited number of items with free software
… or more items with subscription software
… grouping items into categories
… grouping items by supplier
… integrate with postal database
… integrated stock control
… customer logins to remember baskets & speed up process next time

– Look into WordPress shop plug-in
… or stand-alone software
… or prestashop as per Active Distribution
Advice from Richard, DaveB, Jon Active, Chris as appropriate

Meanwhile tidy up Buy Stuff and Shop sections of website (Pat)
Join Alliance of Radical Booksellers (Pat)

Trailer refurbishment

Design + print new banners (front & back)
Step to be installed. Strengthen relish counter. Canopy (like van)
Strengthen & re-balance chassis; replace back suspension & wheels
Gas box frame & cover
Knobs on griddle
Integrate trailer/van electric hook-up / 12v systems
Electrics: solar panel, battery box, LED lights, water pumps, fridge, 12v charging
24v motor mover for trailer when off vehicle
Boiler: relocate, automate water feed, vent steam
(side project – design evaporation fridge to chill fridge from boiler steam)

Favourited Tweets to action

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Favorite Tweets by @veggiesnottm

Veggies tasks Oct’13

File past event statistics, gathering catering guidance info
Recipes – Update, reprint for folder, upload to website [Contact Chrissy to help]

Create / update field kitchen resources inventory to facilitate loan to other campaigns (eg Calais Migrants, Badger Camp, Campaign Gatherings etc)

Tidy campaign resources into outbuildings
Sort archives (from 1980’s) in ‘the void’.
Dig steps & walkway in the void beyond the cellar.

Jet wash shipping store doors, ready for graffiti artist.
Build new compost bins.

Mix 20kg batches of burger & sosage mixes ready for Alley Cafe, Unicorn Grocery, Soundbites etc.

Audit The Spice Bank – Pat
Stock take & reorder books for book stall.

Veggies tasks June’11

Mass sew-in for decor drapes for marquees
Field oven pilot light + Fittings for shutter props cheers Russell

Customer ramp from pallet
Gas box cover + ratchet strap fixings
Secure gas bottle ratchets straps in van
Install chip frier on dedicated gas supply
Mount step over rear light
Wall mount first aid kit, fire extinguisher and fire blanket.
Fix piano hinge on bread bag shelf
Mount shelf above/beside cooker for oil, temperature probe, miscellaneous foods etc.
Find a ‘tip bar’ to help tip & pour water from 25ltr drums
Make ‘sock’ dispensers for burger-press-plastic & compostable kitchen roll bags

Find/replace frame for 3m x 3m tent and for (fosters) blue gazebo
Create a system for loaning tents and other resources to other community caterers.

Sumac Job List, Nov 5, 2010

BOB’S WINDOW (access easy off flat roof) :
– finish primer/undercoat on frame
– 2+ top coats of white gloss on frame
– Repaint brickwork of window reveal with white masonry paint (which we have in outbuildings)

NEW BATHROOM WINDOW (easy access as above) :
– 2+ top coats of white gloss on frame
– Paint new sill and brickwork of reveal with white masonry paint

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BOB’S WINDOW
– seal new plaster around window with PVA, then paint to match existing
– light sand frame, wooden cill and surround (where needed), then paint or varnish

BATHROOM WINDOW
– light sand over new plaster, then seal with PVA and paint (or will whole bathroom be painted?!)

HELEN’S WINDOW
– lightly sand over new plaster, seal with PVA, then paint.

Veggies Jobs to do

Kitchen and Office

• Organise, document and publish herb/spice store
• Organise, standardise and update recipes on website
• Veggies computer needs complete reinstallation of both Windows and Linux
• Connect solar panels on wall when not at events, wired to 12v outlet in office
• Do you have a washing machine? We don’t!
  Please take home some aprons & t-towels to launder.
• Carpenter to fit shelving – done – thanks Roy!

Catering Trailer

• 4 caribinas or similar to ratchet strap gass bottles into gas cabinet.
  Wing nut and/or fresh holes rilled in side of frame to secure cover
• Rebuild customer ramp with wingnut bolts for easy construction
• Install ventilation vents and chip frier
• Install solar powered fan

Marquees

• Restitch strip on 10m roof
• Paint marquee poles
• Design & sew drapes and hangings for tent decor
• Roof poles needed for 3m tent
• Write up full instructions and checklists
• Identify and label storage location in outbuildings

Campaigns

• Encourage more groups to contribute their details for the Networking Directory.
• Print and collate new Veggies Scoffer book.
• Check book stall stock & reorder from Active Distro & Vegan Soc.
  Set up catalogue for online book shop.
• Catalogue/price list/website to compile for ‘Pretty Veggies’ Toiletries project.

Sumac Maintenance Group

The following maintenance tasks are yet to be done

Beech Avenue – women’s toilet window sill, fascia board above toilets
Upholstery surgery

Main roof – re-pointing to chimneys, replacing concrete tiles, possibly other things. Tom and Ben are interested, others may liaise with them.
Paint outside of building

Residents’ flat:
Outstanding bathroom tasks: new window with opening light over sink, overflow pipe fitting to the toilet, replace lamp on sink area, maybe extra lighting needed and monitor dampness.
Alan’s room – get professional to inspect the roof to check for leaks. If that eliminated consider heating/ventilation.
Central heating – residents check valves are all working properly. Check/bleed radiators.
Kitchen – replace panels in kitchen door and cupboard
Sitting room windows – wooden flaps covering the shutters need finishing
(Post-meeting discussion: Workbench in outbuildings needs removing thru window space before window is glazed – URGENT)

Sumac Maintenance Jobs Feb 2010

Residents flat

Outstanding bathroom tasks

* Install new window with opening light over sink. Tim is coordinating this.

* There was never an overflow pipe fitted to the toilet!!!. Suggest fit one while window being done to minimise mess.

* Replace lamp on sink area – current one is bust. Do after new window installed

* When we have done these we should review whether extra lighting is needed and monitor dampness to see whether a larger or over-shower extractor is required.

Alan’s room

The walls around the bay area and side of the chimney breast are very damp and plaster in places is breaking down.

Action. We need a professional to inspect the roof to check for leaks. If this is eliminated we need to consider heating/ventilation issues.

Central heating

Actions. Check valves are all working properly (job for residents really). Check/bleed radiators.

Kitchen

Actions. Panels in kitchen door and cupboard need replacing.

Windows in sitting room

Actions. The wooden flaps which cover the shutters need finishing so that these close snugly to eliminate draughts.

Additions

Paint outside stairs to flat next spring.

Paint outside of building.

There are several jobs outstanding from list Andrew compiled last year. I’ll add these to this list and we can discuss plan for these.

We’ll use this page to note all those random jobs than need doing, for which we never quite seem to have the time or skills.

Can you help with these tasks?

Club room
– Paint wall at top of stairs – Do we have any paint left?

Toilets
– Shelves in accessible toilet
– Locks for ladies cubicles
– Replace broken glass in toilets
– Refix male towel holder

Building
– Painting/repair exterior ladies toilet window frame
– Bell for backdoor
– Sign for backdoor

Garden
– Fix lid clips on compost tumbler – Rivetter needed

Kitchen refurbishment

All of us who benefit from there being a kitchen and hence yummy food at Sumac will be delighted to know that the kitchen is being completely refitted.

– Full length stainless sink/drainer/work unit
– Remove fridge (use fridge in basement)
– Replace worksurface with stainless steel
– Remove boiler or raise it in corner above of sink unit
– small handwash beside bar door
– remove coffee machine, use cafetiere
– Sales display shelf over bar door
– Drainer mounted above sink unit
– Batten/hooks to hang items.

Please let us know if you can help or advise with finding or installing any of this.

Jobs To Do – Can You Help

The Sumac Centre closed throughout July 2007 to seriously refurbish the Centre. The results of this can be see in the Indymedia report by Tash

We are looking for anyone and everyone to get involved in ongoing works listed below – whether you are highly skilled at DIY or just enthusiastic!

Further plans are afoot to demolish the derelict outbuildings and redevelop a highly eco-friendly new building there. A visioning meeting for this plan was held in September 2007. More info below.

-Club Room-

Fix up notice boards
Fix bookshelf by computers to wall
Display shelf on pillar for Sumac event fliers
Repair extractor above computers
Get and fit curtains for bay window
Re-upholster chairs/benches
Laminate and fix fire instructions (done?)
Create storage under stage

-Toilets-

Replace broken glass in toilets
Shelves in accessible toilet to reduce dumping there and on stage
Waterless system for urinals?
Timer/PIR controlled lighting?

-Flat-

Air brick in bathroom

-Kitchen-

Improve layout of kitchen
Replace/extend worksurface over fridge
Replace cupboard doors
Kitchen/central heating boiler – service or replace
(boiler is actually in basement)
Replace shelves to maximise length
Display shelf over bar door

-Basement-

Heat vent, ideally to club room, subject to not breaking fire seal
Multiplugs in office & above work surface
Raise shelf above recycling boxes by outside door
Sort out access to ‘the void’ – steps into concrete plinth?

-Building-

Roof repair, gutter cleaning, flashing
Leaking pipe at 71 Beech Ave – Andrew on the case. The water has now stopped gushing out after I contacted the Letting Agent.

-Outside-

Smoking shelter in the yard – (Roy offers help)
Repaint signs on gate to correct opening times
Sign near Beech Avenue entrance?
Re-paint high-vis edge markers on steps up to door

Build letter box to gate
Build / tidy / label bins for Community Composting
Fix lid clips on compost tumbler
12-volt fairy lights / porch lights off solar panel – Chan?
LED lighting in shipping container
Grey Water System
Compost toilet

Outbuildings redevelopment

Plan is to raise serious funds to completely rebuild as a substantial new building, which might house:

* Library
* Meeting spaces
* Anarchist archive
* Sumac Office, or
* Relocate Veggies?
* Composting Project
* Veg oil recycling / biofuel project
* Residential and/or visitor accommodation
* Archiving attic (half a floor above)
* Storage basement (ramped below ground)
* Solar or turf roof (or combination)
* Straw bale construction

More ideas, including any which may have been suggested during previous visionings, should be submitted here, or in the discussion folder circulating at Sumac.

Recent maintenance has included:

* Reroofed outbuildings
* Fixed the Sebo vacuum cleaner. (It now works very well and there are spare bags in the disabled toilet. The dyson vacuum doesn’t work. Does anyone want to try and fix it or should we dispose of it?)
* Replaced the fluorescent light bulbs in the gents, ladies and above the bar.
* Replaced the blown wall light bulbs.
* Fixed the leaking ladies toilet. (The first toilet as you enter, the pipe from the cistern to the bowl had come loose, please keep and eye out for that!)
* Fixed the broken lock on the first ladies toilet.
* Fixed the ladies toilet that wasn’t flushing (The middle toilet – although it might now leak as it appears drip so will need further work later).
* Fixed a new toilet seat in the middle ladies toilet and tightened the loose one in the first toilet.
* Removed most of the junk from the disabled toilet (Lets put some shelves in there for more storage space).
* Fixed the big table so that it no longer wobbles (hoorah).
* Tidied up around the office computer and the piano.
* Purchased bolts to fix the remaining chair backs back on!
* Probably did something else too that I have forgotten.

Please let it be known if you would like to join the maintenance team, or if you can suggest any other task that would improve enjoyment of the Centre!

Tim’s To Do List!

Also as an ‘RTF’ Document

Does not yet include Veggies, void, behind bar, or kitchen areas, and in any case not definitive. Additions / corrections welcome.

(I) ROOF

l Repoint roof tiles
l Paint chimney
l Inspect flashing tape and replace where necessary
l Repair render on inside of parapet wall (Gladstone side)
l Repoint chimneys and other places as needed
l PERIODICALLY clean gullies, gutters, and flat roof of debris

(II) EXTERIOR – BEECH AVE. SIDE

STREET LEVEL

l Replace broken windows
l Patch / paint windowsill
l Repaint fascia board
l Cover and secure exposed phone wiring
l Scrape moss off foot of wall
l Consider removing metal gate?
l Make good and paint lobby (use masonry paint)
l Fit architrave around exterior door and paint
l Clean and stain / varnish weatherboard on door

ABOVE FLAT ROOF

l Extend overflow pipe away from wall
l Mortar around pipes in wall
l Inspect brickwork and repoint where necessary
l Fit permanent waste pipe for boiler overflow

(III) EXTERIOR – GLADSTONE ST. SIDE

n Repair cracked render by door
n Patch tyrolean render where necessary
n Fill gap at drain by steps with mortar
n Paint underside of windowsills with white exterior gloss
n Re-connect drainpipe to water-butt
n Put platform / table over bar compressor

(IV) YARD

l Repair / rebuild brick wall in SE corner and tie to sandstone wall
l Oil gate
l Make and hang swinging sign by gate
l Build cover (old table?) for bar compressor
l Mend leaking hose
l Tidy yard and remove junk

(V) FLAT

BATHROOM

l Fit airbrick or second fan above sink; scrape off mould, apply anti-fungal wash, re-paint
l Fit new light switch
l Stop leak under shower tray
l Refix shower wastepipe to increase fall
l Seal top of tiled splashback behind basin with silicone
l Repair shower bracket
l Complete skirting and boxwork
l Repaint
l Clean fans & heater

KITCHEN

l Clean and repaint
l Check boiler settings and overflow (NB. valve on overflow pipe below sink must be kept closed)
l Unblock sink
l Window frame may need patching, and wood near sink needs protecting
l Maintain cupboard doors and fit handles
l Clean and repair fan

HALL

l Clear and clean
l Fit lino in lobby by kitchen door
l Repair hole in floor, by lifting loose floorboards, and refixing supporting batten to side of joist with coachscrews or bolts
l Fit soft self-closer to door
l Fix and fill skirting, then paint
l Check emergency lighting
l Paint or varnish doors and doorframes

SMALL BEDROOM (GLADSTONE ST. SIDE)

l Check dampness under window

LONG BEDROOM (BEECH AVE. SIDE)

l Maintain window and fit window lock

LARGE BEDROOM (BEECH AVE. SIDE)

l Clear mould off wall and repaint (and consider fitting airbrick?)
l Plaster partition wall
l Fix sash window (and consider replacing safety glass)
l Fit window lock

LIVING ROOM

l Clear rotten plaster above window bay and replaster; check roof above for leaks first
l Replace broken window pane
l Reputty and repaint all windows. (Replace in longer term when funds available)
l Patch hole in floor (under speaker)
l Paint ceiling and skirting
l Fit outside window on small circular window and paint in between

STAIRCASE BETWEEN 1st & GROUND FLOOR

l Repair and cover balustrade at top of flight

(VI) MAIN GROUND FLOOR

BEECH AVE. LOBBY

n Fit draught excluder to letterbox
n Fit length of doorstop batten to fill gap, prime and paint to match

FEMALE TOILETS

n Prime and repaint bare window frames
n Repair lock on first cubicle

ACCESSIBLE TOILET

n Investigate damp above door and on lower wall opposite washbasin; make good and repaint when resolved

MALE TOILET

n Unblock righthand urinal
n Repair lock on second cubicle
n Replace toilet seat on second cubicle
n Patch plaster near entrance door, prime and repaint

MAIN ROOM

n Repaint bare patches on ceiling near stage
n Fit protective corner moulding to boxwork on floor near bar hatch
n Fit window boards and finish trim carpentry to smaller bay window (NB. Timber for this is at Neds)
n Fit window vents (which we have) to bay windows
n Reglue peeling wallpaper

GLADSTONE ST. LOBBY

n Fit length of doorstop batten to fill gap, paint and prime to match
n Make good and paint door surround (perhaps cover with architrave?)

(VI) BAR CELLAR

n Fit threshold strip
n Fit hooks to wall (for hanging spears during line cleaning)
n Paint sink stand with wood preserver

Some of the tasks recently completed

Tasks done:
The printer has died! Buy newly refurbished printer.
Install 12v solar LED lights in Shipping store – cheers Russell.
Add tallpoppyfoods, veggieplanet & change kitchen to catering directory
Pass Green Futures info to LACS (John) & Central American Solidarity (John)
Action Zurich insurance
Change sign-ups to show list in date order
Install 12v LED lighting in Shipping Store – thanks Russell
Monitor auto re-boot of computer security updates – Thanks Russell.

Derby People’s Kitchen : Robert says is still last Monday Monthly but not 3rd Saturdays (facebook group is not public)
Stop Cameron’s Cull, Shrewsbury March, Sat 8th Feb added to AR Calendar
Free the Laboratory Primates demo added to ARCalendar & tweeted.
March for the deer of Richmond Park added to ARCalendar
Blackpool and Lancaster Vegan Fairs added to Vegan diary & tweeted
Sharing Sherwood, 2nd Sunday monthly added to Sumac Diary.

Submit article re key events in 30th anniversary year to Vegan Soc
Make & deliver 25kg Hemp Mix to Alley Cafe. Make 20kg sos mix too.
Print temperature monitor sheets for fridges & freezers.
Norwich Veggie Fayre – confirm that it is too far for Veggies.
Animal Aid Fair 2014 added to Diary. Contribution send for 2013 event.
Post 3 LABL Vegan Fairs on Diary: Liverpool, Edinburgh, Blackpool
– Book stall at Liverpool.
Drop a quick links listing into Vegan Outreach Diary
Ordered 25kg Yeast Extract. Delivery 17th January.
Process & forward donations to Hugletts Wood Animal Sanctuary, KAALE & MCL

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Add Worcester Vegan Fair to Veggies Diary / create sign-up
Post Animal Aid School Speakers training on Diary. Sat 17th May.
Book Students for Cooperation Gathering onto Diary.
Post World Day rally on CalendAR / Veggies Diary. Sat 26th April, Nottm

Pay Active Distribution for books & coffee
Price up & display on Book Stall at Sumac
Update Event Catering Section of Veggies Directory.

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Book Glastonbury stall
Done! See http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=490

Pack away pasties etc
‘Veganic’ pizza cheese sample to Screaming Carrot

Place orders with Screaming Carrot, Lembas, Bombay, Homemade Bakery
4 x 20kg Veggies Sosage Mix ordered by Unicorn Grocery, Manchester
Burgers & sosages made for MaryLou Catering & dispatched
Collect 2 x 25kg organic flour from Greens Windmill

Deliver to Health Store & Screaming Carrot
Bag mix for burger press promotion.

Compile 2014 Tour Dates
Update & print 2014 Veggies Tour fliers
& Stall holder express queue fliers

Updated Vegan Cocktail Recipes at Sign Night Diary Listing