Immanuel Volunteers
Every workday

Upcoming workdays

Oct 10 Saturday
with Habitat for Humanity Greater Birmingham · Birmingham

Habitat Build Day

A group build day on a Habitat for Humanity Greater Birmingham site, 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM with a break at 11:30. Habitat will place us in Roebuck or Pleasant Grove and confirms the site in late September. No experience is needed.

Details & sign up

Past workdays

Sep 5 Saturday
with Hearts In Hands · Birmingham Signups closed

Deck Build Workday

A deck teardown and rebuild for an elderly Birmingham couple. Hearts In Hands lined the project up and provides the materials and a project leader; Immanuel Volunteers brings the crew.

Details

What the work looks like

Two volunteers framing the landing of a new ramp at the back door of a white house, floor joists in place and lumber lying in the grass.
Framing the landing.
A finished pressure-treated landing decked and level at the back door of a white house, with a level and tools resting on the new boards.
Landing decked and level.
The skeleton of a long wooden ramp framed out across a back yard, running from the new landing down to the grass.
The ramp framed out.
A volunteer bent over a saw in a sunlit back yard while the ramp behind him gets its decking and handrail posts.
Decking going down.
The finished ramp: fresh pressure-treated decking and handrails running from the back door out to the yard, ready to use.
Done, and somebody can get out their own back door.

Photos from a Hearts In Hands ramp build.