September 12, 2023 – Contractors making progress and crawl space cover is crawling along…

It was another chilly morning, but God gave us another beautiful cool workday.   We were a small team again today, with four Care-A-Vanners and three local volunteers this morning.    We are very blessed to have another local pastor start our day off with an inspirational devotional and prayer.  Then, it was off to work.  Most of the jobs today were a continuation of yesterday, so no job assignments were needed.

Most of our work is focused on outside, since the electrician and plumber are making some progress inside the house.   The electrician is actually Becky’s mom, who owns an electrical business.   She has most of the rough wiring done.

Another team was making some great progress on the soffit work.   It looks great…

Our job was to continue building our experimental design for the crawl space.   First, we installed the remaining braces and back support.

We then brought it over to the crawl space to check for fit ….. perrrrfect (as Bob the builder always said).   We were amazed at how much lighter it is!

Well, it is about to get a lot heavier.  The  next step was to cut out the top plate out of 3/4″ OSB, and secure it into place.

Since we were using OSB this year, we needed to wrap it with Tyvek paper for waterproofing.  It was like wrapping a big package :-).    By lunch,  it was a wrap!

It was literally a wrap for us for the day.   After a delicious lunch hosted by a local church, we had to get back to Roadie for an important phone call.   We will definitely finish this masterpiece up tomorrow.

Since it was Taco Tuesday at the local VFW, we joined Richard and Ramona for some good food and companionship.   God is good!