Posts Tagged ‘lumber’

Check, check, check

Posted by Rachel Chapman on Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

Windows – √

Doors – √

Floor – √

We got a call today from the village.  The team has finished the floor!  Woohoo!  And, they installed all the barred windows and the outer doors.  WOW!  And, they even had time to stucco the kitchen.  Thank you, Lord!  The guy who made our cabinets is going on our next work team and he wanted to install the cabinets, so now he can! :)

And, to top it all off, one of the pilots who flies for our organization here flew over the village yesterday and took a few pictures of the progress.  He just sent us copies.  So, here’s what it looks like as of Wednesday at 2:30.

Where is the work team?

Where is the work team?

You can see the tarp over the schoolroom to shade the floor so it doesn’t dry as fast.  There is black plastic on the floor in the kitchen and the other part of the schoolroom so the concrete will sweat and not dry too fast.  You can see the windows already in.  It doesn’t look like our blue throne is installed in the latrine yet.  That will come very soon, I’m sure.  Great job, guys!

Another angle

Another angle

Now, we’re just lacking a roof! :)

Lumber

Posted by Rachel Chapman on Monday, April 12th, 2010

Unloading the lumber

Unloading the lumber into the schoolroom

On our last trip, we were able to finally talk to the foreman at a lumber mill on the road to our village.  We placed the order for our lumber needs for our house with him. He said they’d have it all cut and ready within a week.  The foreman ended up getting called away for a family emergency and the mill workers were coming up on a week’s vacation, so it did not look promising that things would work out as we planned. In the end, a week and a half later we got our wood delivered to the village thanks to our friend who hauls our freight.  He went out of his way to make sure we received exactly what we ordered.  Tuesday, as the workers were supposed to be getting off for a week’s vacation, he had them cut the sizes they lacked for our order.  The boards were loaded directly onto the truck and he brought us a full load.

We got everything stacked and stickered.  This is our roof, our inside walls, and our doors.

Full lumber order

Full lumber order