The Explorer Room
In 2002, when Explorer Scouts began, 1st Flixton Explorer Unit had no place to hold their meetings.They were offered the back room at 1st Flixton Scout Group.
This back room was never used and in need of alot of work and repair done to it. This room was used to store damaged and unused equiment and left there.
The plaster board was badly damaged and was falling off the walls and ceiling and the floor was concrete and uneven.
The electrics were in need of attention.
This then started the first project for 1st Flixton Explorer Unit.
The first job was to clear everything out of the room. Equipment was saved, repaired or discarded.All the plaster board on the walls and ceiling was removed, exposing bare walls and the roof through the wooden beams overhead. This then gave us a blank canvas to start our magic.
An electrician then updated the electrics within the room and new plug sockets were installed.
The next job was to decide how to have the Explorer Room. Ideas were coming thick and fast on how to have the room, but the best idea, decided by all, was to base the fixtures, fittings and design on a traditional English Pub.The idea was to have the room completely cladded in wood, with a bar, comfortable seating and pictures on the wall.
The base of the walls were treated to make them waterproof.
Wooden batons were then fixed to each wall to fix the wooden panels to it.
Wall by wall this was complete and the panels were nailed to the batons.
The walls were then complete.
Now for the floor.The floor was created by making joists and stilts out of pallet wood to raise the floor. Before these were placed on the floor, around the base of the walls and the floor was once again treated to make it watertight.
Floorboards were then placed on top of each joist and fixed into place.
Both the floor and the walls were then treated to protect the wood.
The ceiling was created by placing large thick sheets of MDF board on top of the wooden beams.The boards were secured to the beams from below and together for added security.
The ceiling was then painted white with the beams painted black.
