HOME MAKE OVERS

 We came to St. Petersburg, Florida on January 29 for a NOMADS project in this community.

 We are parked behind the St. Luke Methodist Church.

We have four rigs hooked up to water and electric.

On Saturday we celebrated our 13th anniversary at Leverock's Seafood. Larry had 13 beautiful roses on the table for me. Then on February 1st John and  Jill celebrated their 42nd anniversary. This is a project to celebrate love, since Valentine's Day is also during this project.

 Ann leads us in the singing in our devotions each morning, she was a music teacher,  Jill and John traveled with a gospel group, so our singing sounds pretty good. Going around the table is Larry, Dick, Ann, Wes, Rinda, Jenny (project coordinator for us), Jill and John.

We are working at three different homes in the community this week. Rinda, Jill and I painted the outside of this mobile home.We were grateful that the team last week power washed it. John helped paint the high part the first morning.

 Larry came by in the afternoon and finished painting the back peak.

 It was a warm week, so Jill made sure we drank lots of water.

Jill painted the blocks around the bottom.

 Painting both sides of the awnings took some time. Jill enjoyed doing the trim work. Changing the red to a nice mushroom brown really freshened up the look of the home.

John helped paint the higher peak and trim.

The house finished and Donna, the home owner was very happy.

 John spent his other time at the church putting in plumbing for the sink to be installed in the youth room. It took a little studying to figure out how to do it, then a lot of hard drilling.

 Pipes ready for a sink to be installed in the corner. Jenny discussing what type of sink to put in and what else they needed done in this room. A sink was picked up on Thursday to be installed next week.

 Dick and Wes worked at this house. It had a list of things to be fixed. They replaced an air conditioner, fixed door frames and,replaced rotted soffit, The bathroom was a big concern. The shower walls needed replaced, but first they needed to check that the floor wasn't rotten. They removed the flooring and there was no leak,

 New flooring

 Green board hung on walls

 and shower walls installed. A nice make over.

 This home needed three jalousies windows removed and new windows installed. Wes and Dick removed the windows and then Larry covered the opening with plywood until new windows were purchased.

 Carol helped Larry install the windows It is nice when a home owner is able and willing to give a helping hand, and she enjoyed helping. The windows were just a little too big for the opening so Larry had to trim them back to fit, another challenge.

 I worked with Larry on Thursday to trim out the windows. Caulking adds the finishing touch. Carol is going to do the painting, so I don't have to go back and do it next week.

We ran out of time on Thursday, so we went over Friday morning and finished framing the window and loaded up all the tools. Larry making the window sill for the frame.

The finished window. So three homes done and ready to work on some others next week.