Sept. 17, 2011

Fall has rolled in in Maryland, but work continues on our houses. Some folk might like to sit on their couch all weekend and watch football, but there are still enough go getters within the Northrop Grumman ranks and in the world to pitch in to build some houses for Habitat. Granted I watched bunch of football too, but Saturday morning and afternoon were dedicated to our homes. We also had a group of 15 NGC folk come and volunteer on Friday, while a gang of students from UMBC joined our efforts Saturday.

Both houses are still in the inital stages of build up. Joists were laid across the middle of the first floor on both houses, and we finished the back end of 1630 by the end of Saturday since we had to first build an exterior support wall from the basement floor up to the first floor to support the joists. 1632 North Gilmor did not that effort, and as such the joists were completed and subfloor was laid across the joists. By the end of Saturday, our team had finished the subfloor on the first floor, so that the next job in this house is to begin framing the exterior walls. Meanwhile 1630 N Gilmor can get subfloor laid down on the first floor.

Here is the Team from Friday posing outside of 1632 N Gilmor after a hard days work. Many thanks to them.


Here is 1630 with joists laid out and secured:


Here is 1632 with the subfloor work in progress:


Finally thanks to the UMBC crew and NGC crew that worked on Saturday.