Falfurrias, Texas January, 2018

We have returned to Falfurrias, Texas and are here with a number of folks we have worked with before and even worked with at this location.

The group from the left in front are Jodi, Judy, Jan, & Jerry.  In the back row are Stel, Gary, Avis, Paul, Karen and Dave.  On Monday, we travelled to 3 locations as a group to get a sense of the assignments for our outreach mission.

This is the first home and the owner who is disabled and using a walker would like a new ramp for her mobile home.  This ramp is much too steep.

While the whole group was present, we moved this disabled car out of the way since it does not run anyway.

How many nomads does it take to move a compact car?????

Then we went to the second house which has rotted siding on the right front and needs new windows.

In the back, the lower portion of siding is rotted due to a significant leak in the bathroom which also needs to be addressed.  The third house is not pictured here but is the parsonage.  They are getting a new pastor so they want to spruce up the place for him.

We met at the church to discuss the work and all decided we would go to the second house as a group and begin work there. Here, Jan, Stel and Avis begin removing the damaged siding in the front 

and the others, Paul, Judy, Karen, Jerry and Dave, removed damaged siding in the rear.

Karen and Judy began scraping the useful siding for painting while Paul

and David worked on replacing the damaged areas.

Once the siding was removed in front, Gary tackled removing the old windows

and Avis measured to see if the new windows would fit the same opening.

Avis, Gary and Stel are checking the fit for the new windows.

Meanwhile, Jan and Judy start painting the replacement siding and trim pieces

and Karen and Jan continue scraping the paint while

Judy begins painting the water heater shed.

Of course, the new windows do not quite fit so Stel and Avis are cutting out material to make the fit work.

Dave  began installing new siding

and Paul is assisting.

Before we make the final window installation, Stel cut the Tyvex

and Gary installs it around the openings while Avis and Dave barter for use of tools.

The windows are in but we opted to put Tyvex under all the siding.

Then the siding replacement begins and

by the end of the day of Thursday, this end is nearly complete as is

the rear exterrior.

But Paul and Dave had a lot of work to repair the bathroom floor which is so rotted  you can see daylight around the bottom of the tub.

The toilet is the cause of part of the water leak so Dave and Paul remove it, repair the floor and install a new toilet.
Next week, we'll address finishing at this house and move to another.