Hello all! Monday dawned cool/cold and we still managed to get up crack of dawn and to the site by 7:45!!! By 10 the house had the first two walls up and I found myself on paint duty...you think that is simple?? Wellll that includes rounding up the horses and purchasing the paint. Then one crawls on her (all female unit) knees into the middle of naked cement and sawdust planks and paint...still sound simple??? Thennnnnnn you go to a cold water hose and clean brushes, rollers and buckets. All this while standing in ankle deep mud...(which we later found out was toxic!!).
While waiting for the paint to dry, you get to hammer in some nails (I was fired after 3!!!) All in all..the roof went up, the electric went in, the plumbing was begun and the windows were delivered! The basement water level rose so that the toxic standing water had to be sucked out and you ask, where did they put it? Into our painting of ceiling plywood so a repeat paint is due in the a.m. So amid the muck, the paint, the goop, and a porta potti, we all survived! Can't wait to do it tomorrow...Going to bed at 8, make that 7:30 . Take care ya'll!
Sherry Ogden and Mary Iannacone
4 comments:
You are building a house that has Toxic Water around it? Is is from chemicals spread by the hurricane or from a biological nature?
Hi JfW -- thank you for writing. Sherry wasn't being literal about toxic water -- it's just plain old swamp area.
We're having a great FAT TUESDAY party. We really appreciated your comments since then we know someone is reading our stuff. WHo are you? Where do you live??
The Habitat Krew in Bay St. Louis/Waveland. Happy Mardi Gras!
'Plain-old' swamp water? That sounds worse!
All of you deserve a giant Carnival party for taking time to help build a home. Did you have King Cakes? Who got the trinket?
I am a friend of Nancy DeVries.
Great site & work. JFW
There is a soft, muddy consistency to the ground surrounding the Habitat house we are building. It is due to a couple things:
1. The site needs to be graded, sand added, etc. and there wasn't time in the preparations for our arrival to finish that work. It will be done, however, before homeowner moves in.
2. There is a very high water table in this area: about 3 ft. below surface. Can't change that, but with the grading above, drainage efforts will be included so that the property remains dry.
Nancy DV
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