Sunday, August 17, 2025
As you may recall, we took a vacation from the NOMADS rebuild project last week to get some rest and explore some of Vermont. We rested at the campground, drove to Hardwick to visit the Cabot Yellow Barn cheese store, did some sightseeing and some hiking the first of the week.
Thursday, we went out to our next job site. It’s about 10 minutes from our previous site and we met with our project coordinator, Rob. We also met the homeowner, Scott. The four of us assisted the site prep contractor with installing the pillars of the new tiny home we will continue building on Monday.
Friday, we moved back to the camp to prepare for our incoming team. Saturday we were blessed to have Richard and Mary Lou and Sally and Chester join us for our fifth week of work in Vermont. Another great team!
Monday, we installed the 6×6 beams on the pilings, leveled and squared the beams and assembled the floor joist system. Tuesday, we squared and centered the floor joist system, installed the underlayment and insulation and installed the subfloor. Wednesday, we raised three walls. We finished the week on Thursday by raising the last wall, squaring walls and installing the top plates. This was a great accomplishment because it was another extremely hot week. We took off a little early because we had been working a little late earlier in the week. On the way home we stopped for pizza and ice cream. We don’t often get to do new builds on our NOMADS projects. The entire team really enjoyed this week, in spite of the heat.
We sadly said see you down the road to Richard and Mary Lou on Friday. We will enjoy having Chester and Sally work with us part of next week. We have one more week in Vermont and then we will be heading back south.
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