Crew Leader Training Session 5

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Crew Leader Training Session 5

• Interior Trim

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Administrative Housekeeping

• Welcome and Introductions
• Facility Orientation (Restrooms)
• Agenda
• Class Room
• Lab
• Distribute Handouts

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About Habitat...

• Its mission is to develop communities in
  partnership with people in need by building
  houses and providing decent homes for people to
  live and grow.
• Habitat build houses with those in need and sells
  them to the homeowner.
• Mortgages are more affordable due to no-interest
  loans offered through Habitat.
• In return, homeowners invest 300-500 hours of
  sweat equity building their own or other
  Habitat homes.

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The goals for the build...

• Build a home
• Teach and learn skills
• Fellowship fun

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General Issues on this years build

• Number of homes
• Location of houses
• Construction Dates
• Site Map
• Parking
• Different types/variations of houses being built

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Daily Build Schedule

• 700 am - House Leader Meeting
  (construction trailer)
• 730 am - Crew Leader Meetings (house)
• 800 am - Morning Meeting w/ volunteers
  (house)
• Noon - Lunch
• 300 pm - Clean Up

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People to know on the Job site

• Construction manager (red shirt)
• Site coordinator (blue shirt)
• Assistant Site Coordinators (green shirt)
• Volunteer Coordinators (turquoise shirt)
• House Leader(s) (purple shirt)
• Crew Leaders (teal shirt)
• House / Site Safety Observer (yellow/orange vest)
• Volunteers
• Homeowner (yellow shirt)
• Wednesday / Friday Crews

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Crew Leader Responsibilities, etc

• Meet with house leader prior to 730 am to
  understand crew assignments for the day
• Oversee crew of 3-5 volunteers
• Provide safety coaching to crew
• Emphasize leading the job vs doing the job
• Demonstrate tasks and skills to crew
• Assure that work meets quality requirements

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The Habitat way of building...

• Many factors were considered when plans
  procedures were drawn up
• Consistency
• Cost
• Safety
• Differing experience levels of volunteers
• Donated Materials
• Therefore
• Please do not deviate from the plan/procedure
  regardless of your level of experience.

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By the book

• House Plans
• Build Book
• House Leader
• House Specific Details
• Cut lists etc
• Construction manual
• Crew leaders print specific sections
• General construction practices

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www.habitatstl.org

• Construction ScheduleSafety Manual Construction
  Manual

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Where is everything...

• Tool trailer
• Materials trailer
• Staging yard
• Lumber
• Materials
• Specialty tools (check out card)
• Color coded trailers

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General safety concerns/hazards

• Eye Protection
• Ear Protection (when needed)
• Sun / Heat
• Ladders / Falls
• Improper setting
• Overextending / misuse
• Hard hats dropped tools/materials
• Using the right tool

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Safety Hazards

• Review safety huddle talking points for Molding
  and doors
• Safety glasses when using pneumatic hammer
• Set blade depth to no more than 1/2 deeper than
  cut. (Minimizes danger)

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Sessions objectives - Interior Trim

• Identify the Task Hanging doors, molding
• It should take 2-3 days
• 10 - 15 volunteers
• Note variations for special houses
• Reference pages of construction manual

Picture - Before
Picture - After
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Sessions Big Picture (Details to follow)

• Hang doors
• Trim and finish half wall(s)
• Window sill details
• Cabinets
• Base trim

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Hanging Doors - Basics

• Doors should always swing into walls
• Bedroom doors should always open in
• Closet doors should always open out into room
• Right hand Vs. left hand
• knob position relative to exposed hinge
• The key - constantly check door swing and
  closing throughout process. Reveal (gap)
  should be consistent

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Hanging Doors - Plumb

• Check note hinge side of rough opening for
  plumb
• Separate jam
• Be sure to put inner jam into room before
  mounting door (closets)
• be sure door swings freely before mounting
  (remove nails packaging before mounting door)

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Hanging Doors - Shim

• Shim
• Use shims in opposing pairs
• Shim
• wherever screws go through frame
• behind hinges,
• above and below latch,
• Not too tight or loose
• Mirror shim locations opposite sides

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Door Frame
Image(s) of Door Frame
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Half Wall - Basics

• Prepare and attach cap plate
• 1 X 8
• Rip width
• Cut length
• Router edges
• Construction adhesive finish nails (16
  centers)
• Apply trim
• Paint before applying
• Finish nails on 16 center
• Fasten from one end to other (dont work to
  center)

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Window Sill - Basics

• Assure window jam is square (carpenters square)
• Determine measurements
• 1x6
• Rip to width
• Cut to length (3 wider than opening)
• Router / round over edges
• Notch
• Cut first notch
• measure second notch from first
• Assure level
• Fasten using adhesive and nails
• Apron

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Sill Issues
Image(s) of window
Apron Sill Notch
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Interior Trim - Basics

• Use casing for exterior door trim
• Hang doors before installing baseboards
• Inside corners - coping Vs. miter
• Cope only one of the pieces
• Bevel edge to be coped
• Cut cope
• Measure to length 1/8
• Splice (if needed)
• 22.5O / 45O

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Baseboard
Image(s) of baseboard coping / splicing
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How to best tackle the job

• Number of crews with people/crew
• Quality check points
• What to watch out for
• Where the problems occur
• What makes it go easy
• Next training session specifics

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Questions ???
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Lab Exercise / Warehouse

• Task(s) to be demonstrated / practiced
• How we will demonstrate / practice
• How to get to the shop
• etc, etc...

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Measuring