Build Day 6

Build Day 6, September 19, 2012

Today was all about paint.  Paint, paint, and more paint.  Everything got painted today.
Lots of pictures in today's post.

 Painting started on the outside of the house.  We had people painting on all four sides and in the carport at the same time!

More painting.

Gail and our home owner Aloha.

Still more exterior painting!

A couple of the locals came out to help up paint today!

Everyone paints on painting day!

Here is Aloha with our house leader Glen.  It was Glen's birthday today!

Curt and Gail on site.

Everything gets a coat (or two) of primer and then a couple of coats of paint.  Here one of the volunteers is painting the closet shelves.

This is Hope and Cory.  They are from Virginia and are staying on the island for several weeks.  They heard about the build from an article in the local paper and drove almost 2 hours to help us today.  They spent all day priming and painting trim!  Our thanks go out to them and those like them for spending a day of their vacation to help with the build!

 As you may have noticed, all of the pictures have been from the outside of the house.  That's because the "trades" that were putting on the wall texture didn't get to our house until after lunch.  They were supposed to have finished last night.  So we didn't get into the house until late in the afternoon.  To try to keep on schedule, the interior got sprayed! -- Usually in a Habitat build, the interior of the house is painted by brush and roller.  Easy for the volunteers to do!  But since we were behind schedule, out came the sprayer.
 

Here are a couple pictures of our house at the end of the day.  The exterior is completely painted and the interior has a coat of primer and a coat of paint.  We will finish painting in the morning.  Those boxes in the carport are the kitchen and bathroom cabinets.  Those will get installed tomorrow as well.

The build is wrapping up.  Only two days to go!