habitat stuffs
Havn't you always been told "don't touch fiberglass insulation, it will make you itch like none other"? Mmmm, doesn't work so well when you're installing said insulation. Especially if you're installing it papered side up because you're actually insulating the room above you (we were in the garage).
Other than itchy arms the work at habitat for humanity was awesome. Stuff went really slow at the beginning because they were like "micromanaging RAWR!" and didn't really know whether we were competent or not. But once they figured out we weren't complete idiots it went a lot faster. All in all we ended up flattening out the bottom of a trench (that was really rocky....really REALLY rocky in parts), putting up some drywall (after putting in some boards to nail it to because the section of wall that was supposed to be straight, flush, and square was...very not. We had to bring out stuff 2" in parts to get a flush surface to nail to.
It seems like habitat should ask for a basic history of your construction experience. They probably have volunteers that range from "that would be cool" to "i built the house i live in", and it's really hard to use people effectively without knowing where on that scale they lie. But they try to do it anyway, and it basically ends up them assuming that people don't know what they're doing until they've shown or asserted otherwise. Which really makes a lot of skill go unused for several hours. Ah well, they still run a pretty good operation.
Other than itchy arms the work at habitat for humanity was awesome. Stuff went really slow at the beginning because they were like "micromanaging RAWR!" and didn't really know whether we were competent or not. But once they figured out we weren't complete idiots it went a lot faster. All in all we ended up flattening out the bottom of a trench (that was really rocky....really REALLY rocky in parts), putting up some drywall (after putting in some boards to nail it to because the section of wall that was supposed to be straight, flush, and square was...very not. We had to bring out stuff 2" in parts to get a flush surface to nail to.
It seems like habitat should ask for a basic history of your construction experience. They probably have volunteers that range from "that would be cool" to "i built the house i live in", and it's really hard to use people effectively without knowing where on that scale they lie. But they try to do it anyway, and it basically ends up them assuming that people don't know what they're doing until they've shown or asserted otherwise. Which really makes a lot of skill go unused for several hours. Ah well, they still run a pretty good operation.