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Ableton On Air is a member of the National Academy for Television Arts and Sciences Boston, New England Chapter. The floor has to get ripped up and in front of the door has to get ripped up because we've got to put some insulation in the floors and we've got to put some more insulation in here. Once all the insulation is in place, then we can frame off the floor and put the plywood down. So that's going to close that area off. We also have to go upstairs and frame this off and get some plywood up on the floor. So this was a staircase that was here last week, taken out. Once we've got this one installed, we had that one taken out. So that's going to be our inside project. There'll be four or five people in the basement, four or five people upstairs, and a couple of people cutting framing. So I'll try to separate everybody. What I will have to know is who knows what end of the hammer to use? Who is comfortable? Not everybody does. I say get a hammer to get a screwdriver. It's pretty close. Oh, we have a list of those? Keep the screwdriver. You may need it. So I need to know who is comfortable with power equipment if I'm having them doing any cutting and if I'm having them direct anything with some of the less skilled workers. So we have all levels. We don't care who shows up. We work with whoever shows up. So I will need to know your comfort level and your ability to work with power equipment for things of that nature. So that's the work we're going to do today. If we're going to do safety, it's going to be any power equipment you'll get. I'll go through a quick training on it even if you know it. So you're familiar with the piece of equipment, whether it's a circular saw, chop saw, table saw, screw gun. Anytime you're using any power equipment here, hearing protection, eye protection, we have all that here, we should. So we'll provide the safety equipment and the training. And then I'll be jumping back and forth, losing weight, running up and down the stairs or running inside and outside, making sure everybody's safe. If anybody feels unsafe, like working around here, if you have any hazards and feel safe, you just let me know. I don't want to put anybody in a position that they feel uncomfortable. So you just have to come and tell me personally. You don't have to make a big announcement about it and we'll make corrections. If we're working in groups and we're four or five people more or less together, if one person says to me, I will feel more comfortable if everybody wears a mask than we all wear a mask. And you just have to come and tell me, I won't make any announcements and point anybody out. We'll just say everybody put a mask on and we'll just respect everybody. That's all. We'll know who went and talked to you. We'll know who went and talked to you because they love to group. No, just kidding. I'll wait 10 minutes. Okay. A couple people would have went to the bathroom at that time period, right? But the point is we want to respect everybody's safety. That's all. We're all here for Sean and we obviously don't want to get anybody hurt in any way, shape or form. So I want y'all back again. And I always kid about my crew used to say, if you get cut, that's okay because everybody should bleed for the company at least once a day. I always do. I don't say that with volunteers. We want no bleeding. How long have you been doing this construction? How long has the house been in construction right now? That's a hard question. It's been in full-time construction since this spring. Over the winter, two or three of us were working on tearing things apart and bringing stuff to the warehouse and cleaning it out, which wasn't really construction. It was more deconstruction and getting ready for spring. So around April-May, we actually started digging out the foundation and working. So if we can get a go from April to December, that'll be a record. That's our goal to be in by Christmas. I'm not sure how we're going to do that, but that's our goal. You mean to have this whole thing destructible? We're hoping to have them move in for Christmas. That's my goal. I know it. North University students there, right? Got three, any more? We got two more. Two more. Have you been here before? You look familiar. What branches? I'm pursuing Air Force, sir. Air Force? I'm also pursuing Air Force. I'm Army. Pursuing Navy. Damn, my son was in a Marine Corps. About 10 years ago, we were doing a house in the valley and we brought a bunch of rooks out and I literally had like eight Army Navy and about four Marines. I said, that's about equal. So we're going to dig trenches. We're going to dig trenches and we're going to see who finishes first. Any guesses? Marines. They were. I was the only guy who did this. So anyway, there's an ongoing battle between the Air Force and the Marines. My son will tell you all about it. I used that to get a competition. And boy, did we get a lot of work done that day. Yeah. It was dirt flying. Anyway, does any of your crew comfortable with power tools? Know how to read a tape measure? All right, good. So I'm only here to about 1130. Oh, you're going to work too? I thought that was your work. Well, this is important. This is my work. I'm here to about 1130. Get as much as I can. And edit a lot. Yes. And please make sure when you guys are using the glue gun, it doesn't sorry, you know, use the right tool. Are we all signed in? Everybody's all set. Thank you guys very much for sticking with us. This Delta variant has thrown a bit of us into a, you know, we're trying to make sure, keep everybody safe as nobody wants to work in here with masks on for six hours. So vaccines and everything like that requirements and keep you all safe. But yeah, we are all set, Bruce. Okay. We will be doing some framing, some flooring. We'll be doing some insulating. The insulation downstairs is pretty simple. Not a lot of power tools, although there may be a saw or two, but it's mostly cutting, fitting, gluing, rigid insulation. We will be framing flooring and putting plywood down. We'll be ripping flooring up. And upstairs we'll be getting this opening framed off. And then the entire upstairs gets a couple of layers of plywood, three quarter inch or one quarter inch, which we got to take out of the truck before it gets too wet. It's not raining that much. So that's the, that's what our goal today is to get this close, get the basement insulated, get this framed, get some plywood down and get as much of the flooring accomplished up there as possible today. Does anybody have any questions? Perfect group. You scared them. You scared them all. Scared them all. Well, and for the folks coming from the faith community church, so Sean Bates is a member of your congregation. He's, and so that's why Pastor Octry has invited you all to come and join us. It's a really important piece of our work is that we build community. We have homeowners, not just renters, and that means that these people are in this community for a long time. And so it's great to have people from his church for more of his workplace to come and support him that builds that community. So you all are part of that. But in addition to that, as you know, Egan knows from last time when he was here, our work, our mission, we build affordable housing and that is made possible because we use volunteers. If we didn't build volunteers, this house would probably use volunteers. This house would probably be double what it's actually cost me. This is about, it's going to cost us about $150,000 to build. And that's with lots of grants and everything. With labor it'd be over $300,000 and it would be really hard for us to make this affordable. So you guys are actually part of how we make that possible so that we can offer them a really low affordable mortgage. Again, it's not a giveaway program. We partner with our homeowners. Those mortgage payments get recycled back into our homeownership programs so we can build more houses. So you all are making this possible. So just can't thank you enough for being here and helping out. And we appreciate you all being patient with us as we figure out how to work 11 people indoors where we were planning for being outside. So thanks Bruce. Just to let you guys know, just all today that I'm here for the next hour or so, two hours, will be part of a public service announcement for Habitat for Humanity and second part. We're going to put this into a second part for Habitat for Humanity. Larry's with Ableton on Air, which is an ORCA program. And he had us on to talk about how we build a homeownership opportunities for mobility challenge individuals. And he's come in here to get some B-roll. We've also offered to do a public service announcement when you're a nonprofit occasionally. TVs and radio stations advertise your programming for free. So that's what Larry's doing for us. Thank you Larry. So really quickly this is a one-of-a-kind. So central Vermont Habitat builds only so far in the last three high performance homes by efficiency Vermont standards. So that means. Defined high performance. Right. So that means that the walls are really thick. Like this one's going to be seven, nine inches thick with rigid insulation and rock wall insulation. It also is going to be air tight, which means that the air change per hour, the volume of air in this house will naturally escape but only one air change per hour, which is really tight by construction standards. Those are very high benchmarks. There's only a couple of Habitat's doing it. There's only a dozen or so contractors doing it. This entire house will be heated by a heat pump mini-split. Just an electric compressor. It's going to heat the entire house 95% at the time of the year. It's not there yet, by the way. It's just motion to where it will be. It's a compressor outside. It's a little electric head up here where it blows heat in. It looks pretty simple. But most people cannot do this. And nobody in Habitat World, in Vermont, has ever attempted to take a 1920s house converted into a 1920. It's a 100-year-old house and we are the first one, the only ones, to try to do a rehab up to high performance standards. Most of the Habitat's are not even building new up to high performance standards. So we have a very high benchmark. So you guys are part of that process of a one-of-a-kind house here. And we hope to build more, rehab more houses like this in Berry. The only way we can do it, the house has to be donated to us. And we have to have a half a million hours of volunteers and I have to learn how to go and beg. I'm really good at begging. I've learned that if you beg the right way somebody will install the minis, but free. It's called borrowing too, right? Mostly begging. This house has a balanced ventilation system. The air inside this house will be cleaner than the air outside. Once the system is out, the house is very tight. All the air coming in when the windows are shut in the winter, when it's the worst time, is all filtered air and all your bathrooms and kitchens are exhausted outside. So it's a very healthy house. And we use very low VOC products everywhere because it is so house. I even put in a radon sealed sump pump down in the basement. We'll test it for radon after the occupants are in here for a year. And if we have to put in a fan and a radon pump, we can. It will be all installed ahead of time. So just wanted you to know that we're not just building a normal house. We're not just renovating an old house. We are, but we're doing so much more. Our houses, when they're done, their heating bills are like one third of what everybody else's are. We did a passive house, which is even tighter than, well, tighter than this house and more insulated. And it got 75% of its sun. Heat energy from the sun has about $1,000 a year energy bill. So the older the house, the less it costs. Correct? As far as like the heat and everything around that. The older the house? Yeah. No. The age has nothing to do with the house. The age has to do with, it's a very difficult project. Asbestos, lead. All of that stuff. We had to get grant money and spend lots of money just for testing. We had to get the place all cleaned up before any volunteers could come in. So we had to do that first. The hard part is in an old house is like this floor. I've got framing in the way where I want to put eight inches of rigid. I sort of make little boxes of rigid insulation to get in every little cavity. New construction, you just design it. It's really simple. Any idiot could build it. But it takes a really idiot to take this on. And you do a wonderful job. Right. So this is a very difficult job because every single day we're problem solving. I'll rip up a floor. There'll be extra framing I didn't know about and we got to deal with it. So the jobs just take forever. So that's where we are today. We're going to try to close up that rigid insulation that has not been closed up because the staircase was in the way and I couldn't take the staircase out until I got a manufacturer to make the stairs and there was a delay. So everything just backs up. So today we want to we want to get it all insulated and the floor is closed up and if we have time we're going to get the whole floor upstairs done. So next week I've already promised people I'm going to start building walls. I may be working tomorrow. Now do you have any questions? Perfect. We can get a nice fireman's chain here bucket brigade from the truck all the way up the stairs. All that plywood goes upstairs. All right. I know our university stands. Let's let's unload. Yeah. I'm going to bring the rooks upstairs. Get them started. Okay. Make sure you know what a cool gun is. Yeah. Make sure you know what a drill is. All right. So I was joking. No, it's all right. So you said you have other food stuff. No, I got buns and I got a tablecloth and napkins and plates and a scoop. So that's what I got. Okay. I wonder what we can do to I'm here because basically for my church, church for my very mark, the community church, I've been involved in public service like over 25, 30 years. What is your background? What is your background in construction? It's not in construction, but I was public service. I was a police officer in Boston for eight, nine years. I worked for the state of Rhode Island by 10 years working corrections. I was part of public service. I was part of a homeless shelter in charge of that like 50, 10 years in a Nash war. So my basically all my life is involving community service and helping people. So that's, that's the main reason I'm here today also. Well, I know they need people to help somebody with this house. So I've created the person who has four, which is Sean Babes. So that's the reason why I'm here today mostly to help out most, most I can. I just gave a little bits and pieces. Don't scuff the walls. I'm getting bits and pieces. I'm putting it in sections too. Say yeah, we asked. Yeah, the other way. Bits and pieces. This is the buffet. All the rest of the stuff is right here. I brought food. I did it. I'm joking. I'm joking. No. By the way, thank you so much for letting me come today. Actually, what else did just mentioned 20 house have that you guys are fixing? Well, so it had asbestos in the basement. It had led all the side of the building is painted with lead paint. So we had a grant from the Roman housing and conservation board to paint the building. They just came this week. There was an 800 square foot two story, basically uninsulated shed in the back. And it was uninsulated and not very stable. Well, there was a coal shoot in the basement. That was fun. Yeah. Still still dirt floor and no foundation. No foundation. This was no corner foundation. No corner foundation. It was a stone wall on top of dirt. And in Barry, of course, we've got all this granite as well. So in 1920s even was that when that was when the granite industry was thriving. So all these houses are built on granite stone foundations. So this has granite stone foundation, but it was right on top of the dirt. So what we had to do was build interior concrete foundation walls. So interior foundation walls insulated with a vapor barrier. That's the base of your building on below. You don't want cool air coming in from the basement, right? Because then what happens is air hot air goes out of the top right creates a vacuum sucks in the cold air. You literally create a vacuum. But yeah, so Larry, there was a two-story building on the back of this that we used. We used heavy machinery to take down. Oh yeah? Yeah. Just tore it down because it was. No, but no gold mine in the basement. No gold mine in the basement. No. All right, guys. We're changing it up. Just a little bit heavier now. So I'll take two people on each one. Michael and I always had a great because I'm in production stuff. He always had a great outlook on how to deal with the family in his productions. Oh yeah. He was like a he was really a father figure. I saw documentary on with Laura Ingalls. What's her name? Melissa Gilbert? With her talking about me. I'm not being very productive. Is there something I can do live? And if I can help somebody else to have a place to live and a home ownership, I'll be more than happy down. And your name is? Susan Landry. And you, what position are you? Do you work? I'm retired. I'm retired. And your job? I was a cook. You're a cook? Yeah. Chef. No, I wasn't a chef. Well, I like to think that was a chef, but I just, yeah. Once you get a couple of them up. Well, I told you that was safe. Yeah, be careful if you can not to do it. I'm going to reuse it. Hey guys, and try your best to not break anything because we're we're going to reuse them. We're going to use them. Yeah. So you're reusing and repurposing, right? That's right. Yeah, we're just going to actually sand all the floors and make these look like brand new. Wow. Yeah. Well, this house, when Sean comes in here, it's still going to be. So, I have a question. So, we can use this. In terms of repurposing, in terms of repurposing, supply. Now, obviously you guys are painters and you get supplies that's new. But how do you repurpose them? I'm a little confused there. Well, look, you're seeing it right here. Oh, yeah. We're pulling up the old floor boards, taking out the nails. And that's currently a hole where the stair was. The stair is there. It's supposed to be old-fashioned, too. Found anything in the walls? Oh, like a bag of money? No, I'm serious. We did a house one time and there was newspaper. There was newspaper in the wall. We found an old newspaper. We found working on my house. My house is way older than this one. We found old shoes in the walls and all sorts of stuff. Yeah? Yeah. It was it was weird. Did you keep them there? Uh, no. Thought about it, but my wife throws out everything. Why would somebody mind? From here up. So, we're going to go here, there, to here. And then we're taking all of this off. This thing leaving this. This thing leaving this piece right here, too. Right. Okay. So, we'll break up that one. Right underneath here is a bay that we want to put insulation in from the top. It just started this hole right here. This eyeball it. And pull the first layer out. Remember what happened last time? Yeah. Don't need me more first aid. Okay, I got to get it. Look at the nail. Wow. You know, I'm going to make something with them. Save me as many as you can, okay? One, two, cut. Yeah, I see what you mean. That's better. She's this stuff. I can't get my hands out of here. I'm bad. I'm bigger than mine. Okay. We'll double check to see if she fits. Yeah. And put a two by 10 in the middle here. Okay. Bruce, are we good to start nailing the boards down upstairs? Yeah, I'll be right up. This board here makes it come out. Because I'm going to have two inch rigid insulation go right down. Okay. So, we're going to rip that one out. That one can get cut out with a sawzall and get it out. Yeah. 99. And a little more. What is that? Don't think that bit's going to work. No, it's not. What tool is that? What is that? A saw? This is a sawzall. Yeah. Right now the blade is bent. Bruce, I'm here. 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