Crew Leader Training Session 4

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Crew Leader Training Session 4

• Siding

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Administrative Housekeeping

• Welcome and Introductions
• Facility Orientation (Restrooms)
• Agenda
• Class Room
• Lab
• Distribute Handouts

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About Habitat...

• Its mission is to develop communities in
  partnership with people in need by building
  houses and providing decent homes for people to
  live and grow.
• Habitat build houses with those in need and sells
  them to the homeowner.
• Mortgages are more affordable due to no-interest
  loans offered through Habitat.
• In return, homeowners invest 300-500 hours of
  sweat equity building their own or other
  Habitat homes.

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The goals for the build...

• Build a home
• Teach and learn skills
• Fellowship fun

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General Issues on this years build

• Number of homes
• Location of houses
• Construction Dates
• Site Map
• Parking
• Different types/variations of houses being built

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Daily Build Schedule

• 700 am - House Leader Meeting
  (construction trailer)
• 730 am - Crew Leader Meetings (house)
• 800 am - Morning Meeting w/ volunteers
  (house)
• Noon - Lunch
• 300 pm - Clean Up

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People to know on the Job site

• Construction manager (red shirt)
• Site coordinator (blue shirt)
• Assistant Site Coordinators (green shirt)
• Volunteer Coordinators (turquoise shirt)
• House Leader(s) (purple shirt)
• Crew Leaders (teal shirt)
• House / Site Safety Observer (yellow/orange vest)
• Volunteers
• Homeowner (yellow shirt)
• Wednesday / Friday Crews

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Crew Leader Responsibilities, etc

• Meet with house leader prior to 730 am to
  understand crew assignments for the day
• Oversee crew of 3-5 volunteers
• Provide safety coaching to crew
• Emphasize leading the job vs doing the job
• Demonstrate tasks and skills to crew
• Assure that work meets quality requirements

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The Habitat way of building...

• Many factors were considered when plans
  procedures were drawn up
• Consistency
• Cost
• Safety
• Differing experience levels of volunteers
• Donated Materials
• Therefore
• Please do not deviate from the plan/procedure
  regardless of your level of experience.

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By the book

• House Plans
• Build Book
• House Leader
• House Specific Details
• Cut lists etc
• Construction manual
• Crew leaders print specific sections
• General construction practices

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www.habitatstl.org

• Construction ScheduleSafety Manual Construction
  Manual

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Where is everything...

• Tool Trailer
• Materials Trailer
• Staging Yard
• Lumber
• Materials
• Specialty Tools (check out cards)
• Color Coded Trailers

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General safety concerns/hazards

• Eye Protection
• Ear Protection (when needed)
• Sun / Heat
• Ladders / Falls
• Improper setting
• Overextending / misuse
• Hard hats dropped tools/materials
• Using the right tool

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Siding Safety Hazards

• Review safety huddle talking points for siding
  work.
• Eye and ear protection for cutting siding

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Sessions objectives - Siding

• Identify the Task Siding
• It should take 3-4 days
• 15 -20 volunteers required
• Note variations for special houses
• Reference pages of construction manual

Picture - Before
Picture - After
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Siding Tools

• Snips
• Level
• Knife
• Chalk line
• Hammer
• Tape
• Pencil
• Snap hole punch (check out card)
• Siding removal tool (volunteer supplied)
• Circular saw w/siding blade and jig

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Siding - Basics

• Installed panels must move freely from side to
  side.
• Lock/engage panel with the panel below it before
  nailing it in place.
• Do not force or stretch panels
• Position nails only in center of nailing slot.
• Dont drive nail head against siding
• Allow a quarters thickness (1/8-1/4) between
  head and siding
• Leave 1/4 clearance at all opening and stops
• Do not caulk panels

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Siding - Big Picture (details to follow)

• Windows and doors installed
• Starter strip
• F J-channel where appropriate
• Corner posts
• J boxes and dryer vent
• Siding
• Soffits
• Gutter board
• F-channel - Used to hold soffit
• J-channel - Used to hold siding
• Windows and electrical pass through boxes have
  siding channels built in.
• Starter Strip

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Trim and Molding
Image(s) of Corner Strip
Image(s) of Starter Strip
Image(s) of Finish channel
Image(s) of J-Channel
Image(s) of F-Channel
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Siding Parts
Channel
Top Lock
Image(s) of siding
Factory Edge
Nail hem
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Cutting Siding

• Circular saw with appropriate siding blade
• Utility knife
• Tin snips

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Siding Parts
Label
Image(s) of hole punch into top of siding to
finish
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Getting Started

• Install metal starter strip
• Siding extends below blueboard and just overlaps
  foundation
• Chalk level line around house
• Nail every 16 (hard)
• Butt joints (do not overlap)

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Corner post

• Hang 1/2 below starter strip

Image(s) of corner strip
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Accommodating Doors
Image(s) of siding around doors
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J-channel faux miter joints

• Above doors
• Miter overlapping edge to keep water out

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Accommodating Bird Boxes
Image(s) of siding around boxes
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Applying Siding

• Side of homes
• Start at the back and work forward
• Front back of house work away from
• 1 overlap
• Space seams 2 from those on row above below
• No exposed cut edges
• No piece of siding shorter than 2
• Nail every 16
• Leave 1/4 gap between siding and inside of any
  channel
• Nail channel firm not hard
• Fit top of siding into channel
• Use punch to cut through and dimple top of siding
  to add thickness so siding stays in channel

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Siding
Image(s) of siding in process
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Soffit
Image(s) of soffit
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How to best tackle the job

• Second sawhorse plywood table to accommodate
  measuring, etc
• 3 people to handle full piece of siding
• Dont get too far ahead with cutting.
• Quality check points
• What to watch out for
• Where the problems occur
• What makes it go easy
• Next training session specifics

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How to best tackle the job

• Number of crews with people/crew
• Quality check points
• What to watch out for
• Where the problems occur
• What makes it go easy
• Next training session specifics

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Questions ???
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Lab Exercise / Warehouse

• Task(s) to be demonstrated / practiced
• How we will demonstrate / practice
• How to get to the shop
• etc, etc...

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