Habitat for Humanity volunteers frame a house in a day using prefabricated wall panels.
Habitat officials and volunteers from the Austin Board of Realtors stand the first wall with prospective homeowner Jessica Foster.
With plenty of volunteers on hand, walls quickly start to go up.
Volunteers carry a wall panel.
Volunteers carry a wall panel.
Volunteers stand another wall.
As walls are going up, Diane Kennedy, chairman of the Austing Board of Realtors, paints trim boards.
A volunteer pins a wall plate in place with a powder-actuated gun nail.
A Habitat crew leader cuts out the wall plate at a door opening.
A volunteer nails an anchor strap for a wall plate.
A volunteer nails an anchor strap for a wall plate.
JLC Editor Ted Cushman does it right on site.
Volunteers learn to make layout marks on a truss.
By lunchtime, walls are up and the volunteers begin to stack trusses.
On day three of the build, volunteers sheathe the roof.
Volunteers nail Hardie fibercement trim boards to the eave.
A volunteer installs a window.
Volunteers attach Hardie Panel siding to the walls.