Deck Construction Progressing
In Building Trades, we have been working hard and making excellent progress on a large deck that is attached on three sides to a homeowner’s family room and surrounds a swimming pool. Aside from some minor edge cutting and routering, we have completed the decking installation and have moved on to cutting and assembling the railing. At . . . read more
All Hands-On Deck for Building Trades
We have been asked to replace an existing deck that surrounds a 28’ round pool and attaches to a large ranch house. The deck is 35’ wide and 58’ long, and we have all been working hard and getting a lot done. We did plenty of . . . read more
Students Use Carpentry Skills to Make Improvements
The Building Trades class, taught by Mr. Carlton, has been working hard on many different projects already this year. These projects include using their carpentry skills to improve the school, as well as building a new deck for a local . . . read more
Building Trades Projects Nearing Completion
We are wrapping up our building projects for the year. The second to last week of school, Building Trades finished a 640 square foot deck that we had been working on for about three weeks for Mr. Rick Schmitt, Sandwich School District . . . read more
Building Trades Handles Window Replacements, Takes Green Team Challenge
The project Building Trades students are currently working on is replacing windows on a residence. Of course there is much more to it than just removing the old windows and putting in new ones. After carefully removing the old . . . read more
Larger Projects "Shelved" for the Winter
Shelves made with three elliptical arches. Lately in Building Trades we have been building smaller customer orders. The first was a set of built-ins, or cabinets/shelves, for a dining room. There were three elliptical . . . read more
Building Trades Students Work on 1915 Barn
For the past few weeks, the Building Trades class has been siding an old barn built about 1915. We are tightening down the old siding and covering it with new red vertical steel siding. The sheets are about 3 feet x 16 feet, and . . . read more
"Exsiding" Building Trades!
For the last month or so, we have been installing vinyl siding on a large ranch style house on Griswold Springs Road, near Sandy Bluff. The students have learned how to install the various channels, corners and siding, and are doing a fine . . . read more
Progress in Building Trades
After completion of our safety tests, we fabricated and installed a few dry-erase and bulletin boards in various classrooms. We painted walls in the Welding shop that adjoins our classroom. We built a workstation cabinet for the . . . read more
