Project Photos – Home of Tirado Family (House #3)
Dedication Day and the Turning Over the Keys (3/30/15)
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- The Completed House
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- Completed house close-up
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- Living Room
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- Wow, what a kitchen
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- Hallway with daylight at the end
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- Hall bathroom
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- Master Bath
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- Owner and 2 boys cutting the ribbon
Install Day 12/16/14
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- Foundation is ready
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- Set up & ready for assembly
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- First module approaching the site
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- First module up, up, and away
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- 2nd module in the air
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- 1st module approaches foundation
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- 1st module about to be set
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- 1st module set
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- 2nd module in for a landing
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- 2nd module set
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- 3rd module being lowered
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- Aerial of last module being lowered
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- Last house module being set
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- Modules and foundation perfectly square
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- Gap between modules exactly to the design specs
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- Interior as a house for first time
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- 1st roof section in the air
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- 2nd roof section
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- 2 roof sections set
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- Front aerial of assembled house
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- Components assembly complete
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- Next to last roof section
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- Attic formed by assembled roof sections
Load Day 12/15/14
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- Lifting roof sections onto trailers
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- Roof section onto trailer
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- Roof sections on trailer
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- Extrusion of a house module from the shop
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- Here it comes
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- Some more
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- Out and ready to be lifted
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- Loaded onto trailer
Ready to ship; On 12/15/14, 7 tractor-trailers will be loaded at the school with the 4 house modules and 6 roof sections. On 12/16/14, all will be methodically flown through the air by crane and assembled into a completed house
Modules completed & ready for shipping (11/25/14)
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- Finished and ready to roll
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- Awaiting the shipping process
Drywall installation & finishing (11/18/14)
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- Drywall finishing in progress
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- Drywall finishing in progress
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- Drywall finishing in progress
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- Drywall finishing in progress
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- Drywall finishing completed this room
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- Drywall finish around window
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- Water resistant drywall finish
Site prep for foundation (by Habitat 11/12/14)
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- Close-up of lot building area
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- Lot looking back to front
Inspections passed; Insulation started (10/10/14)
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Electrical & plumbing rough completed; windows & building wrap done (10/10/14)
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- 4 – washer box & piping
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- 7 – tub in place
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- 8 – bathroom plumbing
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- 11 – ceiling plumbing & wiring
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- 12 – coils of wire to make circuit connections after modules’ assembly
Electrical rough-in underway; windows installed (9/14/14)
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- Boxes installed; some wire pulled
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- Kitchen electrical rough
Walls all framed and sheathed (5/21/14)
Exterior walls being framed (4/23/14)
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- Walls framing 1
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- Walls framing 2
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- Walls framing 3
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- Walls framing 4
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- Walls framing 5
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- Teaching & learning about plumb
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- Walls framing 6
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- Walls framing 8
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- Exterior walls framed
Owner meets the students (4/22/14)
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- Owner meets a class
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- Owner meets another class
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- Proud owner seeing her house built
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- Owner and teacher, Mr. Terkovich
Roof sections dried-in (3/28/14)
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- Felt paper tin tagged to sheathing
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- Student builder installing tin tags
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- Dried-in roof section being stored
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- Student builders securing & covering roof sections
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- Covering stored roof sections
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- Stored roof section
Roof sheathing installed (3/14/14)
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- Roof sheathing 1
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- Roof sheathing 2
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- Roof sheathing 3
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- Sheathing overhang on purpose
Roof trusses assembly (monolithic assembly in sections) 2/24/14
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- Truss layout begins
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- Student builders in action
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- Mr. Terkovich in a teachable moment
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- Deep in the trusses
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- All trusses assembled
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- Through the attic storage space
House #3 begins – Floor system assembly (1/27/14 & 2/6/14)
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- Floor joists
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- Floor joists
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- Floor joists
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- Floor sheathing installation
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- Floor sheathing installation
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- Screwing down the floor sheathing
