Building is Messy

Building site are a mess.  Start with the yard where newly moved dirt becomes a quagmire when the rains come.  And it has been raining a lot in our area this year.  To get into the house, the builder lays board, cardboard, and plasting sheeting for stepping stones.  When those are not available, and even when they are to some extent, you wind up with mud on the floor of your automobile.  One of the first things we bought after arriving were cheap floor mats for the minivan.  I had already bought plastic floor pans for my Jeep.

Scattered around the ground are small pieces of every kind of material that goes into the house - boards, hardy plank siding, insulating board, roofing tar paper, etc.  Add to that stacks of materials that are yet to be used in the construction.  On cold days the wood slowly disappears as the workers build fires to stay warm.  The hardy plank stays because it won't burn -- it is molded from cement and fibers.

Inside the house the floor is covered with a combination of sawdust, wood chips and shaving, and mud tracked in from the yard.