MT09 "After The Final Shovel" - Post Trip Updates

Our mission trip team was part of ASP's week 2 summer program. Here is an update on what future groups (week 3&4) have achieved since we have been gone. Thanks to Haley from ASP for the updates. I will post more as they become available.

ORANGE: (Fairly Oddparents)
Week 3 continued digging four feet out from the patio. They almost completed the digging necessary to lay the first course on the retaining wall, so Week 4 will finish digging and then they the first course. After that, Week 4 will continue digging in order to lay the second and potentially third courses.

Week 4 finished the majority of the rough digging on this project. They also laid the first and second courses of the first tier of the Great Wall of Wyoming County. Week 5 will continue working on the first tier of the wall.

PURPLE: (Catdog)
Week 3 finished the foundation by shimming the piers under the house and the girders under the addition. They also finished framing the underpinning and installed blue foam. Inside the house, they removed the kitchen ceiling and insulation in order to reinforce the trusses. Week 4 will begin by installing a rooster roof over the kitchen then installing new insulation and ceiling tiles. After that, they will move into the living room and repeat the process in that room.

Week 4 installed the rooster roof above the kitchen, added lathing strips inside the kitchen for the ceiling tile, and made progress in framing out and installing foam and tin on the underpinning around the side of the house and the addition. They also installed vents in the underpinning and built the first of two access doors. Week 5 will finish the underpinning, remove the insulation from the living room, reinforce the trusses in the living room, and start digging a trench from the water tank in order to lay new PVC piping.

YELLOW: (Rocket Power)
Week 3 finished digging the drainage ditch and installed the corrugated pipe drain tile as well as 14 tons of gravel. The drainage ditch is now complete, so Week 4 will begin repairing the bathroom subfloor by digging new foundation piers under the bathroom so that two girders can be installed to support the floor.

Week 4 dug and poured footers under the bathroom and set sonotube piers. Week 5 will build two girders to support the floor and then move into the bathroom to replace the subfloor.