May 22, 2020 With all the gloom and doom about the COVID-19 virus, most of which is valid, work on Fuller Center Disaster ReBuilders houses across the nation has slowed down greatly. However, the staff in the Galveston County area of Texas have not stopped. Without dozens of volunteers helping each week, it is slow.
May 21, 2020 Here are some progress photos of this week from Raleigh Street in New Bern. We hope it quits raining so that we can finish up the exterior work next week. Our thanks to Pete, one of our board members, coming down this week to help us. Hopefully we can get his home
May 13, 2020 This is a text exchange with Darlene from Pamlico County NC today where we are using a contractor (Darrin with ProConstruction and they have done so much with us in the last few months to bring help to those in need much faster) to replace HVAC system and do some interior repairs.
May 13, 2020 We have been working on Robert’s house quite a bit this week. Starting to run the flooring. We redid the front porch and are redoing the side porch which was in pretty bad shape. Also working on the new back porch. Also getting most of the inside of the house painted- Robert
May 1, 2020 So we’ve put the finishing touches on Consuelo’s home in New Bern NC. We started late last year with replacing the damaged metal roof (had a tarp on it) and the home had several collapsed floors. We ended up gutting most of the house and added some nice features for Consuelo and
April 15, 2020 We finished up Ms. Lisa’s home in Pamlico County, NC today. We replaced the roof and insulated the attic last month. This month we replaced the floor joists, rim joists and subfloor in the living room and dining room. Put down new vinyl flooring in those rooms and into the kitchen. She
April 25, 2020 We finished up Ms. Esther’s home in Pamlico County (County just East of New Bern, NC). We replaced the roof, replaced the ceiling in the kitchen (and of course found some rotted rafters), and replaced damaged handrails at the front of house. The roof had been damaged by Hurricane Florence (can you
April 24, 2020 Woo hoo! We wrapped up Irile ‘Brazzle’s’ home today on Oak Street in New Bern. We are still working on some cleanup inside and out but ready for Brazzle to move in. this house has come a long way since we started at the beginning of the year. What great work by
April 20, 2020 COVID-19 may keep volunteers away from Fuller Center Disaster ReBuilders projects in Texas. However, staff member Eddie Sahagun and a homeowner (Cassiano) worked on a house in Texas City. FCDR makes a commitment to a client and a contract is signed and FCDR keeps their part of the bargain with contractors and
April 17, 2020 A huge Thank you! to World Vision for sending these shingles to us in North Carolina to help fix storm damaged homes. 12 pallets on this truck - so about enough to complete 8-12 homes. Another load due here in the next hour. Having these delivered to Pamlico County and we will