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| About 125 people came out to support Habitat for Humanity on
November 21 in Picton and enjoy a full roast beef and chicken
supper and a silent auction while raising $7,200 for the Picton
Habitat build fund. The 2009 home is nearly ready for the key
presentation. |
Items for the silent auction were donated by individuals
and companies throughout the region. Auction items raised $2,612
as part of the total of $7,200 raised. |
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The crowds came out during the last
weekend in March for the annual Habitat
for Humanity Maple in the County pancake breakfast. Here
local singer Bev Verge keeps the waiting hungry happy. |
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| Habitat volunteer Gerry Taylor cooks up the bacon
to go with the maple syrup and pancakes. The event raised $3,000
for the 2009 Picton build. |
Tours of the maple bush and sugar shack were part of the weekend
events at Ed and Sandi Taylor's Honey Wagon Farms in Prince Edward
County. (Ed pictured here in a hat talking to visitors) |
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Affiliate President Norah Buckley (Centre)
sits in on one of the many planning sessions for the 2009 Picton
straw bale Habitat home build project at Bloomfield's Bethany
Christrian Reformed Church in April. |
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| Each member fo the new Habitat
family took their turn at turning the sod at the site of their
new home in Picton on May 26th. |
A large crown came out to participate
in the sod turning ceremony on May 26 and view the plans for the
2009 Habitat build project in Picton. |
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| Bonnie Dobson, (3rd from left),
Chair of the Family Selection Committee and Melanie Flynn (R),
Executive Director, introduce the newest Habitat family to the
crowd at the May 26th sod turning ceremony. |
MPAC (Municipal Property Assessment
Corporation) employee volunteers took up shovels and hammers June
24 to help begin the Picton build. A similar crew was working
at a Habitat build in Kingston the same day. |
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| By noon, June 24, the sewer lines were laid
and attached to the main municipal line on Barker street. |
Project leader, Kyle DenOuden, prepares
the base for footing forms as the newest Habitat home begins to
take shape June 24. |
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| July 16, 2009: The basement walls are poured
and volunteers, including some from CFB Trenton, work on the knee
walls. |
July 20, 2009: Volunteers raise the walls
and prepare to build the inner walls. |
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| July 21, 2009. Note the space in front of
the stud walls for the straw bales. |
July 21, 2009: Picton's Power Concrete crew
were at the site to smooth the basement floor. |
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| July 30: Tina Therrien of Camel's Back Construction,
an expert in straw bale construction technology, drops by the
site to plan the straw stage of the build. |
The roof trusses arrive only an hour late
and one truss short. |
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| In one lift, the trusses were up and ready
for placement the next day. |
In no time at all, the trusses were carefully
positioned and placed on the wall studs. |
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| August 1, 2009. Time to dig the trench
for the power cable from the pole out front. |
Aug. 1, 2009: The power line is installed
the same day the roof trusses are installed |
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| Aug 1, 2009: The trusses are in place, except
for the missing one that was delivered a couple of days later.
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August 1, 2009: Volunteer retired electrician,
Jimmy, is on the job again to help wire the home. |
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| Straw bales piled inside the house and ready
for installation |
Tina Therrien of Camel's Back Straw Bale
Construction Company (www.strawbalehomes.ca)
instructs Habitat volunteers, including members of the Picton
Rotary Club, on how to install the straw bales, a job that began
August 17. |
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| After several days the walls begin to fill
in. Note the mesh on the inside walls which will hold the plaster
in place. |
Habitat for Humanity home buyer, Ron Snider,
(dark shirt) adds to his 500 hours of sweat equity, literally
in the August heat, helping to install the straw at the back of
his house on Barker Street, Picton. |
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| The outside walls also have a mesh to hold
the exterior plaster. |
Prince Edward-Hastings Habitat for Humanity
Affiliate board member, Kerry Burgess, works on the front of the
house installing mesh for the plaster. |
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| A Habitat volunteer uses a site-made mallet
to compress each bale as it is installed. |
Each bale is placed in the same way bricks
are laid until the wall is complete. |
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| Bales must be cut to fit around the standard
wall studs. This is done with an electric chain saw: messy but
effective. |
The Wall of Fame grows each week at the
site as more and more companies and groups come forward to help
in the build. Members of the Picton Rotary Club accumulated over
100 hours of volunteer time by mid August. |
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| The last few straw bales were in place at
the end of the day August 25. Now on to the next stage.... |
It is always nice to have the shade of a
mature tree on site when it is break time. |
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| Workers prepare the parging material for
the interior walls on September 10. |
Inside, workers apply the base coat of parging.
Eventually, the interior walls will be as smooth as the traditional
drywall construction and as easily decorated. |
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| Parging is a messy job so some experience
with playing in the mud as a youngster is useful. |
The straw walls must be kept dry until the
parging on the inside and outside is complete so the whole house
is covered in tarps. |
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| Work on the basement bedrooms, bathroom
and living room is underway while the utilities are installed
by September 29. |
Just inside the front door is a small window
into the wall showing the straw inside. Neat. |
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| The interior walls are all plastered by
Sept. 29. |
The exterior tarps are removed after the
outside walls were plastered. |
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| By October 27th the exterior is complete.
Inside most of the drywall has been installed, mudded, and primed.
The furnace and air exchange systems are in place. Next are touchups
to the plastered walls before painting, painting the exterior,
flooring installation and building the kitchen. Lots to do yet. |
By November 23, the kitchen is almost done
with only the stove and fridge to install. |
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| The living room is done! Walls and ceiling
painted, and flooring installed. |
The carpeted basement stairs are nice and
wide. A removable railing will be installed to help with future
furniture moving. |
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| The downstairs bedrooms are ready (there
are four girls in this family and yes there are two full bathrooms
in the house!), doors are hung, trim in place and all painting
is done. |
Two girls will be sharing this large bedroom
so separate closets were built for them. |
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| The Snider family, our newest Habitat for
Humanity family, moved into their new home in time for Christmas. |
A large crowd turned out for the December
13th home dedication ceremony where the keys were officially turned
over to the new owners. |
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| A prayer and Bible readings helped the new
family settle into their new home during the dedication ceremony
on Dec. 13. |
The large open area in the basement will
prove very useful to a family with five girls! |
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| In the spring, the exterior of the house
will be painted and landscaping done. |
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