Day 10: Restoration Overview (by Blake)

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During our stay in Jamaica, the restoration group has been working to restore an old house in Falmouth. Three generations live in the house. One of the children living in the house even helped us paint the house. We had three men helping us restore the house. Kamar was the main guy that helped us. He was there every day, and he helped us with every part of the restoration. Mr. Hamilton brought all the supplies we needed, and he helped us with painting and repairing parts of the house. Edz helped us repair cracks in the house using cement, and he also helped paint. We started by painting the front of the house. The work on the front of the house was the most tedious because we had to do multiple coats to make sure there were no spots missing paint. After we painted the front of the house we moved on to painting the walls. The color we used for the walls was a nice bright blue. Painting the walls was a lot easier than painting the front, because we got to use paint rollers, and we didn't need to do multiple coats. While some people painted the walls the other part of the group painted the box eve around the top of the house. For the last couple days we mainly worked on the roof. We started by putting metal primer on the roof to protect from rust. After the primer we put grey paint on the roof to add some nice color. With the completion of the roof we finished the restoration. After we finished, it was cool to see all the work we did and how good the house looked when we completed the restoration. 

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