Hilliard Adopt-A-House
2026 Minnesota Avenue

Habitat for Humanity
of Mid-Ohio

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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.

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