A healthier home

We've now completed five jobs under our Healthy Homes Initiative grants from Highlands-Cashiers Health Foundation and Nantahala Health Foundation. Each job has been special to us as we have seen directly how these kinds of funds can impact the health and safety of someone's home. Yet, our most recent project has been truly powerful to watch develop. This particular home is in northern Jackson County - a 25-year-old trailer home owned by a 62-year old grandmother and janitorial worker.

There was so much to do, including replacing a tub/shower unit that was splitting along the bottom, replacing front and back steps leading up to the trailer, replacing a floor that had rotted through in the main bedroom, repairing and replacing light fixtures that posed a fire hazard, and somehow replace a burned out cooling unit. With the majority of our other Healthy Homes jobs being on septic systems, this was surprisingly the least expensive of our projects thus far, BUT it was absolutely the most complicated and involved of our jobs. Here are just a few images of the work we completed on this home.