Habitat For Humanity Hamilton Tolton Avenue Photo Gallery

Habitat Hamilton is completing our first wheelchair accessible home in East Hamilton in May 2009.  Our Habitat family of three teenagers and their Dad are eagerly awaiting the chance to move into the new home with a wheel chair ramp, a fully accessible kitchen and bathrooms and wide doorways. 
 
We have had great support from a wide variety of volunteers. It started with a group from Canadian navy's  HMCS Charlottetown that started the salvage of the old building on the site. Maple hardwood floor, a claw foot tub and some relatively new doors and windows were reclaimed to be sold at our Restore and kept out of the landfill.
 
Volunteers from Dillon consulting and Students from the Ontario Youth Apprenticeship program took over to begin framing and sheathing the walls, putting on the roof and building the inside rooms.  Volunteers from area Home Depots' hung and finished the drywall.
 
Other Habitat volunteers are now putting on the finishing touches on the building including laying the laminate floor, painting, finishing the bathroom tiles and building the wheel chair ramp. 
 
Sod and landscaping will happen soon and the family is ready to enjoy the summer in their new neighborhood!  Overall it's been a great team effort - 
 
Paul Parker, Build Chair

  1. Having fun moving the big boulder
    Having fun moving the big bolder
    Wednesday, May 20, 2009
  2. Wall oven in custom built cabinet. Still need to reverse the door. (it opens sideways like a cupboard to allow easy access for someone in a chair.)
    Wall oven in custom built cabinet.
    Wednesday, May 20, 2009
  3. The kitchen starts to take shape.
    The kitchen starts to take shape.
    Wednesday, May 20, 2009
  4. The crew from the Canadian Forces H.M.C.S. Charlottetown taking up the hardwood floor.
    Taking Up The Hardwood
    Wednesday, May 20, 2009
  5. Official Launch Day
    Official Launch Day
    Wednesday, May 20, 2009
  6. Digging a trench for the drain pipes.
    Digging a Trench
    Wednesday, May 20, 2009
  7. Bob McConkey, Executive Director Habitat for Humanity Hamilton
    Habitat
    Wednesday, May 20, 2009
  8. Footings in place for ramp.
    Footings in place for ramp.
    Wednesday, May 20, 2009
  9. Putting in the front door
    Putting in the front door
    Wednesday, May 20, 2009
  10. Students from a variety of secondary schools in the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board's Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP) were on site today to put up the support walls in the basement.
    Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board's Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP)
    Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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