Third Weekend

Once again Mother nature cooperated with Habitat for Humanity and provided us with a beautiful day.
A HUGE crew was on hand and an enormous amount of work was completed on Saturday.
The remaining interior walls leftover from last weekend were built, stood in place and braced.The gable end trusses were sheeted on the ground prior to being craned into place. All the roof trusses were set, braced and ready for roof sheeting. After lunch,we started installing the plywood on the roof while other volunteers installed blocking in the walls,finished up some misc. sheeting on the exterior walls and organized the job site '
Thanks to Gallop Concrete for supplying the crane to set the roof trusses on the house.
Next weeks agenda will be to install the rest of the roof sheeting and build the front porch deck.
Many thanks to all who helped. Keep up the great work!!

Second Weekend

17 Medbury Rd, was once again the scene of much activity this past weekend for the Habitat crew.
Approximately 13 volunteers showed up to frame the walls for Rachel and McKenzie's new home.The weather looked threatening in the morning, but it turned out to be a beautiful day.
All the exterior walls were erected, sheeted and stood in place. Also some of the interior walls were built and installed.
This coming weekend we will concentrate on completing all the walls and in the afternoon, the trusses for the roof should be up and braced in place. Let's hope we have another beautiful weekend weather wise and we hope to see another ambitious crew of volunteers to complete these tasks.
A special mention should be made to note that our P.R. officer Marilyn Reisch was on site bright and early Saturday morning !!! Marilyn prefers to do most of her work in the afternoon, so it was a pleasure to see her so early on a Saturday morning. Keep up the good work everybody. \
See you next Saturday (7/25/09)

First Weekend

Our first weekend at 17 Medbury Rd. was a huge success!! An energetic crew was able to transform a pile of building material into the floor system which will support the hopes and dreams of Rachel and McKenzie for years to come.
In one day, we built the main bearing beam, set it in place, framed the floor system and installed the floor decking.
The weather was perfect and excitement was in the air as everyone there truly enjoyed themselves.

The schedule for this coming weekend is to frame all the walls, sheet the exterior walls and stand up and brace all the walls. This is probably the most tedious weekend on tap, so a big crew would be greatly appreciated.
Hope for another beautiful Saturday and we'll see you all on the 18th.

News coverage of the Groundbreaking Ceremony

Check out what Channel 13 had to say about our Groundbreaking ceremony on July 11th!

http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S1024469.shtml?cat=300