Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Day Two of Work - Brandi Jones

Oh my goodness!!—what day!!! I spent ALL morning working along side Stephanie from Nissan. Nissan was our house sponsor. Stephanie and I worked on the house wrap. We were using this VERY sticky waterproof housewrap tape.—it’s like packaging tape x 100!!! It was literally sticking to the skin of our hands. After a few hours of that, our hands and fingers were all red. Then we were given the task of putting the foam insulation around the newly installed windows. Unfortunately we were told that we should NOT get it on our hands, when we asked “How do we get this yellow goop off our hands?!!!” J It was really “yicky” stuff. It was on the palms of our hands and on our finger tips/nails. We walked to the neighborhood store to buy something that would help us…but, it was not coming off!-- poor Stephanie had a VIP event to attend early that evening! And yes, today was hot and inside the house it was getting quite warm as the roof was on, shingles were being laid, walls were up and windows were installed—not much air moving through this hot house! George and myself spent ALL afternoon installing ALL the insulation inside the house. It was definitely a hot and sweaty afternoon. It was definitely a sauna!!! I can’t remember ever sweating that much for that long!!! Especially when you were stuck in a small space like a closet that required cutting the insulation to make it fit in the spaces. Then after about 2 ½ hours of this “sweat session” the contracted dry wall team came in like a “hurricane” and the pressure to get all the insulation in before the drywall whizzes put up the dry wall was on! So, for the next hour we frantically worked to get it completed and we were barely one step ahead of the “whizzes” but we did it!!!!!!!! Then we were off to Pascagoula for the Block Party! It was fun! This was the first night that I got back to the hotel room and never left!—I was worn out!---thanks George, for bringing “the blog” to us, since we were so tired!

BRANDI JONES

1 comment:

mewmewmew said...

It was literally sticking to the skin of our hands. After a few hours of that, our hands and fingers were all red. Then we were given the task of putting the foam insulation around the newly installed windows. Unfortunately we were told that we should NOT get it on our hands, when we asked “How do we get this yellow goop off our hands?!!!”


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