A few weeks ago I was given the opportunity to work on a Habitat for Humanity house in Uniontown, a small town about half an hour south of Pullman. I've always heard of Habit for Humanity but never knew how or where to get involved, so I was quite excited when it was part of our curriculum for our Materials class.
Once we got to the site we were assigned different jobs and mine was insulation. I was really interested in it at first because we recently had our insulation redone on my house and I was curious about the process. But I quickly learned why the guys who did ours wore head to toe protection. Within 5-10 minutes my arms were itching like crazy, and they're starting to now just thinking about it. In addition to the itching it started getting stuck in my contacts. So my tip for you, DON'T WEAR CONTACTS IF YOU'RE WORKING ON INSULATION. Luckily I had contact solution with me so I got them all cleaned out and moved on to our next project.
Our next task was to clean out the rooms and screw down the floors. They were only held down with nails and lots of them were not along the cross beams. We went through and found the ones that weren't and added screws for extra strength. Easy right? Well, not as much for a group of girls with limited drill experience. We got our drilling lesson, but it took quite a few tries, and one bleeding finger, to really get the hang of it. But once we did we flew through it and finished early.
The experience was great because we got to work hands on with materials we had learned about in class. I am so glad I got the opportunity to work with Habitat for Humanity and I really hope and can work with them again in the future!
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