Hilliard Adopt-A-House
2026 Minnesota Avenue

Habitat for Humanity
of Mid-Ohio

On Wednesday, July 15, 2026 we continued work on the gable trusses and porch beams.

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Project history:

• April 1, 2026 - It's no April Fools joke! It's the Groundbreaking Ceremony!!
• April 8, 2026 - The hole has been dug and the form boards are in place for the footings.
• April 10, 2026 - The footings have been poured, and the form plates for the basement walls have been delivered.
• April 14, 2026 - The form plates for the basement walls have been erected.
• April 15, 2026 - The contractors are still working on the form plates for the basement walls.
• April 16, 2026 - The contractors have poured the basement walls.
• April 21, 2026 - The basement wall forms have been removed, and the exterior walls have been insulated.
• April 23, 2026 - The foundation is being backfilled.
• May 2, 2026 - Set the sill plates and began setting the floor trusses.
• May 6, 2026 - Built and installed the double LVL joist, began and finished covering the trim-able ends of the floor joists with 1/2" OSB (both sides), installed the parallel joist blocking on both the front and rear of the deck, installed the last three joists at the rear of the deck, began patching the badly split joist to be used in the stairwell area, discovered that we had forgotten to allow space for the basement window headers and had to remove and move several joists to allow for this installation.
• May 9, 2026 - Canceled due to rain and water in basement.
• May 12, 2026 - Repaired the split in the top board of one of the joists, added the joist hangers to the four joists terminating over the basement windows, removed the double LVL joist and added the required nails on one side of the joist, built and raised the basement walls that the stairwell joists rest on, and installed the final floor joists on the basement walls.
• May 13, 2026 - Installed the RIM board around the entire periphery of the first floor, installed most of the subfloor, and one piece of 2x6 for backer boards was moved from the front of the foundation to the rear.
• May 16, 2026 - Laid about half of the remaining deck subfloor, installed most of the remaining fire board addition to the parallel I-beams on the rear of the first floor, and installed the foam board insulation between the porches and the rim boards.
• May 20, 2026 - Canceled due to rain.
• May 21, 2026 - Finished the first floor deck, fireproofed the last three parallel floor supports, built a safety railing system around the stairwell, finished the foam board coverage of the rim boards on the front and rear porches, covered the wall panels with 1/2 inch OSB board, and erected the walls on the front and west side.
• May 23, 2026 - Canceled due to Memorial Day Weekend.
• May 27, 2026 - Canceled due to rain.
• May 30, 2026 - Nearly finished erecting the exterior first floor walls, built and installed a short wall section in the stairwell opening to carry the wall sections spanning the stairwell opening, installed the strong-backs in the floor joists and installed all but one of the king/jack supports between the foundation sill plate and the underside of the flooring directly beneath the king/jack wall studs.
• June 3, 2026 - Continued erecting walls on the first floor, installed cap plates on some of the first floor walls, checked the two long exterior walls for straightness and adjusted where necessary, and completed the one window needing king/jack supports.
• June 6, 2026 - Completed the first floor interior walls, installed all of the cap plates throughout the entire first floor, and installed all of the second floor trusses including the 6-foot LVL over the hallway.
• June 10, 2026 - Continued but did not complete the perpendicular I-beam truss pieces, started laying flooring on the second floor by putting down 6 sheets and dug out around the basement windows for the window well guards.
• June 13, 2026 - Completed the perpendicular I-beam truss pieces and RIM board on the second floor, almost completed the second deck, and installed the window well on the west side.
• June 17, 2026 - Hoisted the two back wall panels and the two west wall panels up to the second floor as well as a healthy number of OSB sheets, erected the back two walls and readied one west panel, installed additional strong backs along the west wall and half of the east wall, constructed and installed the east knee wall for the staircase area, installed the final pieces of second floor decking, sorted the remaining second floor walls, installed the second basement window well, placed dirt around the other window well, installed kitchen cabinet nailers, and determined the microwave vent location.
• June 20, 2026 - Erected the rear west wall section, sheathed and erected the final west wall section, lifted to second floor, sheathed and erected the rear east wall section which involved moving wall over stairwell opening, lifted to the second floor four internal wall sections, constructed the basement stairs landing, added washers to the east basement window well concrete screws, removed many first floor door thresholds, framed the microwave vent wall, and caulked first floor vertical wall joints.
• June 24, 2026 - Completed the last three exterior wall sections on the second floor, erected all but three interior wall sections on the second floor, added an OSB panel to the rear porch wall, trimmed OSB around windows, continued caulking OSB, constructed most of the second floor stair landing, installed ledger boards in the stairwell to aid in stair landing installation, and reworked safety rails on the first floor.
• June 27, 2026 - Finished and installed the main stair landing, installed both sets of stairs, string checked the alignment of the west wall, installed the balance of the interior walls on the second floor, installed the cap plates on all second floor walls, installed temporary handrails in both stairwells, worked on adding nailing blocks for trim throughout the house, worked on filling in the OSB siding on the exterior between floors, planned and installed two porch column brackets on the rear porch, continued seam caulking and did additional OSB trimming around window openings.
• July 1, 2026 - Temporarily set two rear porch posts in place and braced them to reduce future handling efforts, added screws to the upstairs landing to eliminate the squeaks, installed the front porch post brackets, located the front porch beam brackets, installed mounting blocks for the brackets, relocated the front entry door, rearranged the sump pump line, and installed the east second story rim OSB.
• July 8, 2026 - Continued assembling the front porch structure, worked on assembling the truss rakes on two of the three trusses, relocated the window over the front door that was mis-framed in the warehouse wall framing, filled in the area in the second floor landing that was uneven and put safety bars across the windows.
• July 11, 2026 - Raised the middle two front porch posts, built and raised the long front porch beam, completed OSB on the large rear gable truss, put the 2x4 nailer, horizontal stiffner and vertical stiffners on the front gable truss, completed OSB on the front gable truss, and began insulation board on both large gable trusses.
• July 15, 2026 - Continued work on the gable trusses and porch beams.

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