Chapter 255: The Ongoing Saga of the Creels
As you may remember 117 South Island View was f'd. It was f'd because our client tried to save some money for his mother and hired a guy to do the foundation that did shit work. This made me mad; partly at him, mostly at the contractor, and partly at myself for not trying to figure out a way to get involved, but not get involved if you know what I'm sayin'. So anyhow, I'm over at my very first Hancock County Long Term Recovery Meeting at the Resource Center and as people from the community are going around the room and introducing themselves and their organization, who speaks up but Willie Miller. Now, Willie is the Field Coordinator for Christian Aid Ministries who is going to frame, roof, and hopefully finish Miss Laura's house. Anyhow, after the meeting (which was terribly interesting by the way) I went over and introduced myself as I have never met Willie in person, but only spoke to him while he was up in Ohio before they came down to do some building. I mentioned to him the debacle that is the Creel house and I asked him if anything was being done and low and behold he remarks that they started framing it this week with their first group in from Kentucky. Needless to say, I was rather pleased.
Now, I must continue by saying that due to the negligence of the contractor to do his job correctly and put in the right strapping, I don't wholly endorse moving ahead, but the Amish know how to frame and have a pretty great job getting around some of the problems by using some shims and a little old fashioned ingenuity to strap to the flooring and rim joists.
Anyhow, I'll be heading over again later in the week, so I'll try to get some updated pictures up, but as I said before full steam ahead and a happy camper right here...