Habitat home takes shape
Expected to be completed before winter
Photo by Deb Gau Perry Penske, of Extreme Panel Technologies, and Kayla Klein, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of West Central Minnesota, talked about the progress construction has made on a new Habitat home in Marshall.
Photo courtesy of Habitat for Humanity of West Central Minnesota Earlier this week, workers helped set the ridge beam of the new home. The Habitat house is being built using structural insulated panels (SIPs).
Photo courtesy of Habitat for Humanity of West Central Minnesota Workers including local volunteers helped install the exterior walls of the new Habitat house earlier this week.
Photo by Deb Gau Perry Penske, of Extreme Panel Technologies, and Kayla Klein, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of West Central Minnesota, talked about the progress construction has made on a new Habitat home in Marshall.
Photo courtesy of Habitat for Humanity of West Central Minnesota Earlier this week, workers helped set the ridge beam of the new home. The Habitat house is being built using structural insulated panels (SIPs).
Photo courtesy of Habitat for Humanity of West Central Minnesota Workers including local volunteers helped install the exterior walls of the new Habitat house earlier this week.
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MARSHALL -- Construction of a new Habitat for Humanity home in Marshall has made rapid progress over the past couple of weeks.
The house's exterior walls and roof of the building are now in place, and Habitat representatives would also be looking at landscaping options soon, said Kayla Klein, CEO of Habitat for Humanity of West Central Minnesota
"It was important to us for the building to be ready by winter," Klein said Friday, during a walkthrough of the house under construction.
Habitat broke ground for a four-bedroom affordable home on land along Brussels Court in Marshall in August. For this construction project, Habitat worked with Extreme Panel Technologies, of Cottonwood. Perry Penske, head of sales at Extreme Panel, said the home is being built using structural insulated panels, or SIPS. SIPs have a layer of foam insulation sandwiched between two layers of board.
"The walls went up on Monday," with he help of Habitat volunteers, Penske said. After the outside wall panels were in place, workers set a ridge beam, and then installed roof panels and framed a roof overhang along the front of the house. Frames for interior walls were built off-site, and are now waiting to be installed.
The plan is for windows and doors to be installed on the house next week, Klein and Penske said.
Construction manager Zac Albert said working with the SIPs was a good experience for volunteers - they quickly picked up on the process for installing the panels.
"It's a very teachable thing," he said.
Penske said Extreme Panel Technologies has worked with area Habitat for Humanity projects for the past 15 years. He said the company was looking forward to continuing that relationship, now that the Redwood River affiliate of Habitat for Humanity has merged with Habitat for Humanity of West Central Minnesota.
"This was fun, because I got to work with the new chapter," Penske said of the Brussels Court build.
Klein said the finished house will have four bedrooms, and an area of a little under 1,460 square feet.
Habitat for Humanity of West Central Minnesota is still looking for families to apply for the home, Klein said. Potential homeowners need to meet requirements including that they fulfill “sweat equity” hours, and have been a resident of Lyon County for at least one year. Lyon County also has specific income requirements for eligible homeowners, depending on the size of their family. For example, the Lyon County income requirements for a family of five would be between $55,250 and $88,400 per year.
Area residents who are interested in applying for the new Habitat house, or who would like to volunteer on the construction project, are encouraged to contact Klein at kayla@habitatwcm.org, or visit the Habitat for Humanity of West Central Minnesota website, habitatwcm.org.