30th Avenue, North Minneapolis

This new build will be a single family home for one of our partner families. Overseeing this project is seasonal site supervisor Pete Pemberton.

Updates by Betsy Sandberg

June 15, 2011

After about a month of work on the home, everything is coming along nicely. The volunteers from Wells Fargo were on site last week and now all of the framing is in place, the windows are in, and the roof is on. This week despite the rainy conditions and lots of mud, the volunteers from a coalition of churches are working on the exterior of the house and siding. Those inside are working on blocking so they can begin the next step, putting up sheetrock.


 

June 24, 2011
Volunteers from Dorsey & Whitney have been hard at work the past few days on 30th Avenue North. This is the 15th home they have helped Twin Cities Habitat build! As week six wraps up volunteers are finishing installing insulation, and everything should be ready soon to begin sheetrocking. On the exterior, siding has gone up on almost half of the house already. Site supervisor Pete Pemberton says next week they will start work on rehabbing the garage, which needs a new roof and siding.

July 13, 2011

With the great weather lately volunteer crews have been able to focus their work on the exterior of the home. As the second month of construction is almost done some of the scaffolding has been taken down and siding is almost complete. This week volunteers from Tres Iglesias began work on rehabbing the existing garage, putting on a new roof and beginning siding. Indoors about half of the walls have sheetrock up, but the rest has been put on hold for a day when the weather forces them inside.

August 2, 2011

Work on the exterior of 30th Ave. North is wrapping up and volunteers today were putting the finishing touches of paint on the siding. The garage rehab is finished and tomorrow they will begin the final grade of the land. The last few projects to complete outside will be putting in the sidewalk and laying sod. Crews inside were working on the large task of getting the first coat of paint on all of the drywall. For the next two weeks volunteers will be focusing on the interior of the home installing doors, floors and finishing up as much work as possible.