Hello everybody.  I know that it has been a few days since I posted last, but not a lot going on to tell you about. 

Our team enlarged to seven this week with the arrival of another Gary and his wife Pat, and Mellisa.  That make a good number of workers that helps make the work go a little faster.

We changed gears this week as we were assigned another house by the local controlling agency for the flood recovery, Hope Village.  The picture above is the house that we are now working in.  This house was completely gutted and some repairs started prior to our starting work on it.  As you can see only some house wrap as been added to the outside.  This house will be brought to completion by NOMADS.  There is a lot of work to do, but the NOMADS will be here until the end of August.

The inside of the house looked like this before we started.  The studs apparently were salvageable from the flooding.  All of the electrical and plumbing had been completed, except for the installation of sinks and commode.

Gary and Avis are measuring this wall for a piece of sheet rock.  We are using 12" pieces in this house.  Makes for quick installation, but the sheets are heavy.  You can see we have hung a lot so far.

Here are Avis, Pat, Gary, and Sharon.  Gary is trying to explain the use of a small router that he uses to cut holes in the sheet rock for the electrical plug and switch boxes.

Sharon is repairing a hole in the ceiling.  We are not replacing the ceiling in this house.  The water did not get that high. 

Mellisa and Avis have finished hanging the sheet rock on the wall that Gary and Avis measured for earlier.  Mellisa is remounting the thermostat for the furnace on the wall.

The bathroom uses two different types of sheet rock.  The green board is used around areas that may get more moisture, like around the tub and sink.  The windows are all boarded up since we do not have the windows to install yet.  Hope they come in soon.

Some more work that was done included installation of new stairs treads on the steps down to the basement, enlarging all of the doors into the bedrooms and the bathroom from 32" doors to 36" doors, making one bedroom closet into two, turning an old furnace closet into a storage closet, and patching many holes in the old ceiling.

As I said before, not much going on this week, even though we did a lot of work on our new house.  At the end of each day we all just went back to our RVs and crashed.  It is nice to be tired from working and not just sitting around.

Not much more for now.  I will get back with you all as soon as I can.

Have a great weekend, and remember,

God Loves You

Gary