Warsaw Building Trades Open House Wednesday
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By David [email protected]
Four houses were built before he came to Warsaw in 1973, he said. This is his 42nd year of teaching.
The class will host an open house for this year’s project from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday. Owned by Bill and Wendy Kovach, the house is in Hoffman Lake Estates at 2391 N. Memory Lane, Warsaw.
Heiman said it’s about 3,500 square feet top and bottom, with a full finished basement. The ranch-style home has a cathedral ceiling, a backup generator system and three-car garage. There are two bedrooms upstairs, one downstairs and another room downstairs that could be converted to another bedroom. There’s also an office upstairs.
“We did all the flat concrete work, framing, drywall, ceiling, insulation, roofing, painting and finished the interior and exterior trim,” Heiman said. The foundation was provided. “We’ll assist this year on the landscaping and yardwork. Usually we do that but he subcontracted it out.”
A press release from Warsaw Community Schools states that the home is heated with a high-efficiency gas furnace and has central air installed. All windows are Anderson double-hung windows, and the exterior is stone and vinyl.
The most challenging aspect of this year’s home, Heiman said, was the gambrel cathedral ceiling because it has a lot of offsets.
There are two building trades classes at Warsaw, a morning class and an afternoon class. They worked on the home in three-hour shifts every school day, and the class started with 22 students. Work on the home began on the first day of school, Heiman said.
“It went pretty smooth this year. I had an exceptional class this year,” Heiman said. “I’ve got mostly seniors this year so it will be a challenge next year because I’m losing all my experience.”
Most building trades students participate in the program their junior and senior year. Senior Travis Lane is a two-year veteran of the program.
“I would say it’s pretty easy compared to last year. It was a breeze,” Lane said of the Kovach home.
The rafters were difficult because they were heavy and had to be stained and lifted on top of the house, he said.
Overall, Lane said this year was easier though because he knew the basis of everything. Heiman let the students work on their own more instead of teaching from the start because of the experience the students had, Lane said.
From his experience, Lane said he gained “knowledge of how a house is built. I didn’t know there were so many steps in building a house. So much of it has to be precise.”
While Hank Gayheart is a senior, this was his first year in the building trades program.
“I didn’t know a whole lot,” Gayheart said. “I didn’t have any prior experience. I learned a lot especially from this guy (Lane) who showed me how to use the saw.”
Had he known how much he was going to enjoy it, Gayheart said he would have taken building trades his junior year, too.
“I’m really proud I finally learned how to use a hammer properly,” he said. That’s just one thing I can really take away from this class – basic machine skills. This year I learned a lot of basic skills that I can use in the future.”
The press release lists the names of the students that worked on the home as Michael Ammerman, Jonathan Brown, Shane Brown, Shawn Carlson, Michael Compton, Gayheart, Justin Gray, Cale Hayes, Lane, Ian Leake, Jeremy Miller, Brandon Ousley, Caleb Skees, Levi Skinner, Logan Vetor and Fernando Xique.[[In-content Ad]]
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Four houses were built before he came to Warsaw in 1973, he said. This is his 42nd year of teaching.
The class will host an open house for this year’s project from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday. Owned by Bill and Wendy Kovach, the house is in Hoffman Lake Estates at 2391 N. Memory Lane, Warsaw.
Heiman said it’s about 3,500 square feet top and bottom, with a full finished basement. The ranch-style home has a cathedral ceiling, a backup generator system and three-car garage. There are two bedrooms upstairs, one downstairs and another room downstairs that could be converted to another bedroom. There’s also an office upstairs.
“We did all the flat concrete work, framing, drywall, ceiling, insulation, roofing, painting and finished the interior and exterior trim,” Heiman said. The foundation was provided. “We’ll assist this year on the landscaping and yardwork. Usually we do that but he subcontracted it out.”
A press release from Warsaw Community Schools states that the home is heated with a high-efficiency gas furnace and has central air installed. All windows are Anderson double-hung windows, and the exterior is stone and vinyl.
The most challenging aspect of this year’s home, Heiman said, was the gambrel cathedral ceiling because it has a lot of offsets.
There are two building trades classes at Warsaw, a morning class and an afternoon class. They worked on the home in three-hour shifts every school day, and the class started with 22 students. Work on the home began on the first day of school, Heiman said.
“It went pretty smooth this year. I had an exceptional class this year,” Heiman said. “I’ve got mostly seniors this year so it will be a challenge next year because I’m losing all my experience.”
Most building trades students participate in the program their junior and senior year. Senior Travis Lane is a two-year veteran of the program.
“I would say it’s pretty easy compared to last year. It was a breeze,” Lane said of the Kovach home.
The rafters were difficult because they were heavy and had to be stained and lifted on top of the house, he said.
Overall, Lane said this year was easier though because he knew the basis of everything. Heiman let the students work on their own more instead of teaching from the start because of the experience the students had, Lane said.
From his experience, Lane said he gained “knowledge of how a house is built. I didn’t know there were so many steps in building a house. So much of it has to be precise.”
While Hank Gayheart is a senior, this was his first year in the building trades program.
“I didn’t know a whole lot,” Gayheart said. “I didn’t have any prior experience. I learned a lot especially from this guy (Lane) who showed me how to use the saw.”
Had he known how much he was going to enjoy it, Gayheart said he would have taken building trades his junior year, too.
“I’m really proud I finally learned how to use a hammer properly,” he said. That’s just one thing I can really take away from this class – basic machine skills. This year I learned a lot of basic skills that I can use in the future.”
The press release lists the names of the students that worked on the home as Michael Ammerman, Jonathan Brown, Shane Brown, Shawn Carlson, Michael Compton, Gayheart, Justin Gray, Cale Hayes, Lane, Ian Leake, Jeremy Miller, Brandon Ousley, Caleb Skees, Levi Skinner, Logan Vetor and Fernando Xique.[[In-content Ad]]
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