Happy New Year to all!  We need your help next week – please sign up to volunteer to help with final landscaping work at the Yogi Way house. Next Thursday-Saturday, volunteers will finish building the fence and spread backfill in the yard. This will help us to complete the house by the end of January!

At the end of December, volunteers primed and painted the interior of the Martinez family home on Royal Avenue. Several volunteer teams joined us on the build site in December, including all five sponsors of this Interfaith Build: Pacific Continental Bank, Central Lutheran Church, Central Presbyterian Church, First Congregational Church, and Temple Beth Israel! This week, volunteers are putting the final touches on paint and trim.  Next up, cabinets and flooring will be installed. Here are a few photos of the progress on Royal Ave:

Pacific Continental Bank Team

Central Lutheran volunteers paint doors.

On Yogi Way, drywall is nearing completion!  Volunteers are adding additional coats of paint to the exterior.  Next week, the drywall will be finished by volunteers.  Then contract workers will come in to tape, mud, and texture the walls.  After that point, volunteers will be able to prime the interior! Check out the progress inside and out:

On Royal Avenue, siding is starting to go up! Roofers are beginning to install the shingles this weekend, and the house will be dried in soon.  After volunteers complete the siding, they will continue with exterior painting and then move to insulation and drywall inside the house.

Check out the front of the house, and the plumbing inside:

Thank you, Volunteers, for all your hard work on our two houses!  Both the Jimenez and Martinez families are putting in many “sweat equity” hours on the build site, and they are very excited to see the progress on their dream homes!

 
It’s all about insulation on the houses right now. On Royal Ave, volunteers have completed the exterior insulation with blue board and green wrap.  Siding will go up soon, and windows are already in! Volunteers also built the porch roof and raised the porch trusses:

On Yogi Way, the exterior has been painted a lovely blue! Inside the house, Rotary volunteers installed all the Levi’s insulation in one day.  This week, volunteers are hanging drywall on the ceiling and walls.  Next up, the drywall will be covered with tape, mud, and texturing before the interior can be painted:

We have seen many volunteer teams (as well as individual volunteers) during the month of August, and they have made serious progress on both houses!  The BJ’s Brewhouse “Brew Crew” worked on trusses and more at the Royal Avenue house:

The roof continues to be sheeted at Royal, and the exterior is being insulated with blue board and green house wrap. Volunteers will soon be putting up fascia board and siding, and plumbing will be roughed in next. This is a one-story house, so progress is moving along quickly.

At 3609 Yogi Way, siding is complete and volunteers will install insulation later this week. Levi Strauss generously donates their recycled denim insulation for each Habitat house, which makes for effective, non-toxic, and non-itchy insulation! After the insulation is installed, drywall will go up inside the house.  The exterior of the house still needs to be painted, with colors chosen by Ursula and family- check back soon to see the colors!

Recent Volunteer Teams:

BJ’s Restaurant (aka “The Brew Crew”):

Central Lutheran Church:

Central Presbyterian Church

First Congregational Church

Habitat Board of Directors

Quantum Health

Southtowne Rotary

Thank you to all of our Volunteer Teams!