West Rupert Home
We will be adding photos each week of the home we are building for Glenn and Christine Morey and their two daughters, Grace and Makayla. When photos are added, we will place the most recent photos at the top. We also put some of the photos on Shutterfly. You can see slide shows and order these photos. Go to www. shutterfly.com - login at "member sign in" (top) with bennhabitat@yahoo.com and the password is habitat. Then select Morey #1 or Morey #2. As more albums are added, the numbers will increase.
May 20th - Day 3
On a picture perfect Vermont spring day, we built the deck.
Before and after - click on these photos to enlarge them. The girders were donated by Bennington Iron Works. The floor will be very strong!
Glenn and his brother cut the posts - John set up the sides for the deck.
Left - Don - Right - Cait cutting the studs to length.
Students from Castleton State did a great job. Click right photo to enlarge it.
Jen, B, Cait, Danielle, and Megan from Castleton State - cut studs to length, and helped put the decking into place. Right - John, Carl, Glenn, Don, John, and Fred stay until to 2:30 and finished the deck. A job well done!
Right, Glenn, Chris, Makyla, and Grace Morey - standing in what will soon be the master bedroom! Click photo on right to enlarge it. Glenn and Chris working on the deck.
May 7th - Day 2 - A small crew did a great job cutting and placing the plates for the top of the walls and then made sure everything was level. We also sorted and stacked the lumber that had been salvaged from Kimball Self-Storage in Manchester.
Top left - click image to enlarge. Top right - Cliff used a laser level.
Top left - Glenn and Chris Morey - Top right - Barth and Glenn.
Glenn used shims to get everything level - Abbigail Morey - had lots to say!
April 30th!
We spent Wednesday prepping the foundation walls. We inserted perimeter drains, sump pump drains, laid a layer of insulation on top, and then finshed with wire mesh.
We coated the exterior walls with tar - then glued insulation to the walls. We are now ready for the floor to be poured and to have the foundation back filled.
Left - Jim and Ben -- Right - Noble, Frank, Russ, and Jim. 
Nancy and Tina organized our nails. -- Frank tarred the walls. 
Home owner, Chris Morey and Don - tarred the walls. 
Russ, Jesse, and Don prepping the walls.
It was a very good start!
Week of April 21st
Jim Sheldon of Sheldon Excavation, Inc. dug the hole for the foundation and Rusty Martelle built the forms for the footings. The footings and walls will be poured during the week of April 21st. We expect to have our first volunteers to the site, on Wednesday, April 30.
A map from Google Earth shows the beauty of the farm land in West Rupert, Vermont.
The front and back of the Morey mobile home.
View looking south east and view looking south west.
The new home will be sited between the stone wall and the edge of the vegetable garden.