Thursday, July 25, 2019

Rebuilding Together

Today we had a build with an organization called Rebuilding Together. Rebuilding Together works on projects to repair and maintain existing homes for low income families.


There were several different tasks at the worksite. The main job involved tearing wooden siding off a house so that it can be replaced with vinyl siding. The siding was rotting in some places and clearly needed to be replaced. It took a large chuck of the group all day to make it all the way around the house and shed removing the siding.


The supervisor was very excited to have us there helping because she was having contractors put on the new siding and the work we did reduced demolition costs significantly. She said that this would allow the organization or complete multiple other builds on other houses because they had the money to hire additional contractors.


Another part of the group worked on landscaping outside affordable apartments. They moved rocks out of the yard, laid down felt paper, and then replaced the rocks on top. The job wasn’t one where you could see an immediate impacts but was very helpful for the organization to get done.

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