Check out the building on Saturday the 8th!

We won't be ready for curling until January, but you can check out the building this next weekend.

***Due to the rainy forecast on Saturday and yesterday's rain, we're moving the Open House to the 8th. Your shoes and pant legs will appreciate avoiding the mud!***

What: Open House at the new building
When: Saturday, November 8 - 3 to 6 p.m.
Where: 2310 So Hi Drive, Durham, NC 27703

Members will be on hand to show you around the building and answer questions on membership, leagues, and curling! In person membership sign up will be available. Open to the public. Please bring your own chairs and beverages. 

Except for a little section at the end, the roof is on.

Next step is attaching the roof cap, which runs down the middle of the building.

On the inside, the upcoming milestones are placing the stone base under the ice floor, painting the interior beams white, and installing lighting. Lots to do!

Have you thought about what leagues you'd like to join for the Winter season? Registration is open: http://www.trianglecurling.com

A roof (and some leagues to play beneath it!)

The building is nearly encased! We're hoping to see the roof completely on by the end of this week.

The walls wrap around most of the building.

The far back wall still needs to be put up, but as you can see, the roof has started.

 The warm room has a new feature, it can now keep you dry if it rains (but we don't want rain, bad for construction)!

Over the next few days the roof should continue over the ice shed. They'll also start work preparing the floor for the ice equipment.

Off the ice, we've been getting ready for the Winter season leagues. League play should begin in late January (as soon as the building is ready!) and will run until late April or early May.

Right now we have five leagues planned:

• Sunday - Open - 2 p.m. - Open leagues are for everyone! All ages, all genders, all skill levels. League coordinators will put teams together to try and keep balance, but you can request a teammate.
• Monday - Open - 7 p.m. - Same deal as the Sunday league.
• Tuesday - Open Competitive - 7 p.m. - What does competitive mean? The main distinction is that you get to make your own teams. Put the best squad together that you can!
• Wednesday - Men's  League - 7 p.m. - All skill levels and ages welcome.
• Thursday - Women's League - 7 p.m. - All skill levels and ages welcome.

Right now we're expecting to have drop-in/practice time on Friday evening. Saturday is TBD.

You can register now!

Click here for Membership Options and Rates

Click here for League Details and Registration

Any questions? membership@trianglecurling.com

Walls, we have walls!

The last time we posted an update you could stand outside of the building and wave to someone all the way through on the other side. That is no longer the case, we have walls! Two toned, tannish walls, insulated, and with vertical siding!

A good view of the layering in the walls. Next to the ice you have the layer of insulation, covered with a plastic moisture barrier, and the metal siding.

Insulation from the inside.

Progress after one day of wall work.

As they worked their way up, the warm room back door was installed. There are four doors into the building, two in the front, two in the back.

Far wall complete and starting to wrap around the warm room by Thursday

By the end of the week, the wall facing the road was complete.

And they started closing in the rest of the warm room.

This week we should see the rest of the exterior walls go up and hopefully some good progress on the roof.

The warm room is looking like......well, a room!

The most visually dramatic work in the last week has been in the warm room, which is starting to look like an actual room now with walls and windows!

The locker rooms and bathrooms have all been framed in, doors and windows are installed, and the wall between the lounge and the ice shed has gone up. You can really imagine yourself standing there watching games through the big windows now!

Then there has been a lot of little stuff, like additional bracing between the supports, adding overhangs, and installing a sheet of metal around the bottom of the building where the exterior walls will connect. Latest pictures are below...

Overhangs will help provide a bit of shade on the side of the building.

Lots of framing....looking more and more like an actual building.

We hope you'll be coming through that door soon!

 Women's locker room and bathroom.

All the interior walls framed in. Locker rooms, bathrooms, storage area.

The wall separating the lounge from the ice shed.

Imagining yourself watching a game on Sheet C?

A couple views back towards the warm room from the ice.

Back of the building framed. Opening for the garage style door.

Almost ready to attach some exterior walls.

In other news we've started rolling out information on club membership and plan to start accepting league registrations in the next few weeks. Stay tuned!

Click here for information on club membership options.