As many of you know Barbara and the children are visiting Disneyland for their summer vacation. During this time there is a large effort underway to work on her house. Rich Harrington has been leading this with the help of Sean Sanner and their wives. Please see the message below for an update on their work which started this past weekend. The work is continuing throughout the week and will conclude this coming weekend.
If you’re interested in helping (which includes needs for people, labor, materials and funding) see below.
Message from Rich…
Thank you to all volunteers that helped out this past weekend on the initial Slarve Home Improvement project. We had a productive time at the Slarve estate and the small group of 10 volunteers accomplished a number of projects:
· all 4 bedrooms trimmed out, painted and put back together
· the garage 60% cleaned out
· a flower/rock bed planted with a few H20 mishaps along the way
· rock path laid
· many other clean up items completed.We still have the family room, kitchen and bathroom to do over the next week, plus some general yard work.
Resources (people/labor/materials/funding) needed ASAP:
1. A skilled painter to prep and paint cabinets. These cabinets are stained Oak and just covering with paint won’t cut it. If anyone has the skills, access to a painter we can hire or get Pro Bono by the weekend that would be very helpful and would make a huge difference. Potentially, we could do some prep work, like taking off doors, and lightly sanding them to make it easier for the painter.
2. Sheet rock/Taper. The bathroom is Lath and Plaster and won’t take paint. There are cracks and needs a large amount of work. This is main bathroom in the house and the ultimate goal would be to remodel the entire bathroom (including vanity, shower and appliances with possible tile work). We are starting small until we can confirm more support (financial/labor/materials). The current plan is to either take down the plaster walls and sheet rock or possibly have a sheet rock expert do some patching and texture. We can then paint and trim. Same as above: We need affordable skilled labor and supplies or donations.
3. General Clean Up:We plan to have things 90% put back together and could probably use a few hands this week and next weekend to plant stuff, fix sprinklers, install lights, clean up, some exterior paint etc.
Please let me know if you have time to help out, contacts for the above skilled projects or willingness to fund (or locate funding / donations) for the materials/improvements listed above.
Rich
rharrington_2002 (at) yahoo (dot) com
925-368-1099
