Recruiting Volunteer Team Leads

Get your hammers ready! Vision House kicks off our compressed build for the Jacob's Well project in Shoreline this April. We are currently recruiting 15 volunteer professional framers and 15 skilled assistants, willing to patiently lead volunteer crews of 10-15 skilled and unskilled laborers on Saturdays and possibly Sundays during the month of April. The build has been divided into 15 segments and each Team Lead and their skilled assistant will be responsible for one segment. (see below)

If you are a professional framer/contractor or know someone that might be interested, you can find out more and/or register here >>REGISTRATION

Team Leads will be responsible for one of the following areas:

•  Cut team- precut all studs, trimmers, headers and blocking- need cut list
• Stairs- landing and stairs
• Wall material layout- Spread  lumber in preparation for nailing
• Wall nailing- Check and nail all lumber in walls in preparation for sheeting
• Sheeting- square wall, sheet, tack and snap nailing lines and openings
• Sheeting nailing- nail sheeting, cut openings (shear wall strapping)
• Wall standing- Stands, plumb, line and secure
• Floor layout- Mark plates for all beams, joists, including hangers
• Floor cutters- cut beams, joists, blocks
• Beams- set all beams (most in first floor)
•  Joists framing-
• Hardware installation- hold downs, hangers
• Exterior deck- posts, joists
• Exterior staircases- walls, landings stairs
• Subfloor installation

Professional Framers Wanted

April 2^nd is our first compressed build framing day! We are preparing for our compressed framing build and are in the process of identifying 15 lead volunteers who are skilled, professional framers that can lead a crew of 10 volunteers. The teams are broken up in the following groups. Team Leads must be professional, patient and willing to lead a group of skill and un-skilled volunteers.

1. Cut team- precut all studs, trimmers, headers and blocking- need cut list
2. Stairs- landing and stairs
3. Wall material layout- Spread  lumber in preparation for nailing
4. Wall nailing- Check and nail all lumber in walls in preparation for sheeting
5. Sheeting- square wall, sheet, tack and snap nailing lines and openings
6. Sheeting nailing- nail sheeting, cut openings (shear wall strapping)
7. Wall standing- Stands, plumb, line and secure
8. Floor layout- Mark plates for all beams, joists, including hangers
9. Floor cutters- cut beams, joists, blocks
10.  Beams- set all beams (most in first floor)
11.  Joists framing-
12.  Hardware installation- hold downs, hangers
13.  Exterior deck- posts, joists
14.  Exterior staircases- walls, landings stairs
15.  Subfloor installation

Please contact our volunteer framing coordinator, Craig Hawkins at hawkins@enviroshieldnw.com

January Update

A lot is happening on the Jacob’s Well project.

• We have been amazed that during the fourth quarter community members, churches and businesses through a series of events, concerts, a sleep-out, designated offerings, individual contributions and a couple grants raised a generous $199,840! Dollars raised are designated to the purchase of the materials and building supplies needed for the project! With our pay-as-we-go building model, this amount takes us just about through the purchase of the roofing materials. 
• We have raised the money needed to install the waterlines, sewers, pay for the lumber needed for framing, windows and about ½ of the roofing material. We are blown away by that support! We are now raising money to purchase the other half of the roofing material and to purchase the exterior doors.
• We are finalizing the water line bids and installation should begin within the next few weeks.

Once the water line and fire hydrant are installed, we will start volunteer crews framing the structure. TENTATIVELY we are looking at an April 1^st kick-off and will need all levels of expertise on site from professional, skilled and unskilled framers, people to man the registration table, safety officers, floaters to keep the site clean, knowledgeable runners to keep the framers supplied with the right tools and materials, videographers/photographers, someone to manage the tool crib, and a whole hospitality crew to make sure volunteers are feed and appreciated.