This past Saturday, CORPS participated in a project sponsored by Rebuilding Together Houston. 

 

We worked at the home of 74-year old Maybell O'Neal, helping to make some minor repairs around her home and completely freshening up the exterior with a new coat of paint, along with new trim paint. 

 

I think I speak for everyone when I say that this experience was so completely gratifying!

 

The morning started out cloudy and drizzling, hardly the perfect setting for painting the exterior of a house.  But, we had confidence that everything would work out and we would have the opportunity to finish the work we had come to do. 

 

Battling the elements, our team began scrapping old paint off of the house, repairing caulking in the windows' trims, replacing the front porch light fixture, removing shutters, etc. 

 

Off and on all day, the rain came and went, but we found ways to keep the work going.  Finally, we got a break in the weather and we were able to start the real work on the home's exterior.  Our team pulled nails, freshened up with a new coat of white paint, replaced the newly painted shutters and did some general clean-up. 

 

We have a great photo gallery of pictures from the event taken by Javier Avellan.

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