Day 4!

So today was our first team work day and let me just say, this team DID WORK!! We are building two homes this week for families in need and houses are built on stilts which makes everything a little more interesting! When we got there the basic prep work had been done which consists of 12 pillars in the ground and then 4 long 6x6 beams each running across 3 of the pillars. Hard to explain but that's what basically serves as the stilt structure. So from there our team framed in the whole floor (just like framing a wall but it's over the entire floor) on both houses! And that was just before lunch! After lunch we got back to work and started putting the actual flooring boards down. These boards are a tongue and groove system so it requires some precise squaring of the boards and leverage to get the flooring tightly together. One of the houses floor is done and other only needs 5 more boards on it. The amazing thing was the teams excitement and perseverance because all that wood that we put up had to be carried from the base down the street to the worksite! That plus some heavy rainstorms mixed in and the challenge of HARD wood/SOFT nails which is very different from building in the US where the wood is soft and the nails are hard! The team did amazing though and pressed through all the crooked nails to get a lot done! Back at it tomorrow!