Its COVID-induced hibernation finally history, Diman Regional Technical High School's house building program is active again. With supervision and assistance from school staff, students are on their way to getting an approximately 2,200-square-foot house at 175 Tess Abigail Lane weather proofed (siding, roof, windows, doors) by December.
Project completion is scheduled for the end of the school year in June.
Diman house building, which started in 1970, had been inactive for about five years due to COVID concerns, program director and Carpentry-Cabinet Making Program senior instructor Jeff Cabral said recently when The Herald News visited the house site, off Bark Street.
Students and instructors from the school's Carpentry-Cabinet Making program have been on site since the start of this school year, their lumber cutting/measuring/nailing numbers augmented by students from Building and Property Maintenance. Once the privately-owned ranch with attached garage is weather proofed, a host of other school programs – Electricity, HVAC/R, Plumbing – will join the party after Christmas. Drafting got the project rolling at the end of the last school year by creating the house plans. Business Technology and Metal Fabrication have also been involved in house builds.
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