4/13/2012 and 4/14/2012

It was a beautiful day to be working outside or in the house shells with all the windows open. That's right we got windows on both 1630 and 1632 N Gilmor St. We can use them to keep up nesting pigeons and the summer heat when it arrives. All the stairs are also in place thanks to teams working on the houses Friday and Saturday. On Friday a team build of Steve McCoy group worked during their day off while we had a normal Saturday build the following day as well. Framing the walls for the stairs will be a small challenge, as the staff wants to have angled 1/2 walls near each of the staircase platforms to make it easier to move furniture up and down the stairs. Certainly this is an important feature when the home owners get to move in. A lot of other loose ends were tied up by the teams as we get ready to do the interior wall framing. It won't be too long now until we can think about drywall and the final fixings. Keep an eye out for more volunteer days in the future as NGC's employee resource groups also look to get involved.

View from across the street, showing the windows installed, (our houses have the plain white doors).


Here the team passes materials up the stairs for work on upper floors.


Strengthening the roof rafters by doubling up the roof joists.