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The building is going into the night at the Extreme Makeover Home Edition site in Horry County. On the third night, the new home for the Suggs family is really taking shape.
As of late Wednesday night, insulation had been put in and crews were working on the house's sheet rock.
Throughout the day, they worked on the roof and several inspections were knocked out. Progress is being made by the minute.
At the Extreme Makeover site, a lot can happen in a single day. That's because this is no ordinary construction project.
"It is absolutely non-stop," said Harry Dill, a Partner with Sterling Homes, the firm building the home. He continued, "It's actually phenomenal, if you really get to spend a little while inside and get to watch, we try and keep the floors clean and that's just the volunteers and keeping things cleaned up so these guys can be running around the house and not have to worry about exactly where they're stepping and things like that."
Wednesday mornings checklist included finishing up framing, securing hurricane strapping. By noon, plumbing, septic and H-VAC had been inspected. And throughout the day workers set the roof and applied the shingles.
"By (Thursday) afternoon we should be painting on the inside and have siding on the outside," said Dill. Though, with project that has such vast expectations, one can hardly expect perfection. "We had a little trouble, the concrete took a little longer to dry than we would have liked, just things like that, but as far as normal progress on a house, it's been great," admitted Dill.
"Great" in effort, progress and scope.
"It's a 106 hour build and that's something that a lot of people don't comprehend and don't get and something that really surprised me when I first got our here - that it's a 106 hour build that this was a grass field less than two days ago," added Dill.
That progress has brought a lot of noise to what's typically a very quiet Horry County community. Noise the neighbors are not complaining about.
"It's more than worth the inconvenience," said Ron Horak, a neighbor and volunteer at the site. "We live next door and we can't get there from here and we can't get there from here, we have to go the long way around, but for a week not an issue and for these fine folks, not an issue."
The builders say they're close to being right on time. They were ahead and then fell a little behind. But they say that's all typical of one of these builds.
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