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By DEBORAH FLINCHUM
Rappahannock News Special Writer
The building trades classes at Rappahannock County High School have completed five house modules. Teacher Ron Vickers initiated this idea in order to bring together all the skills his students had learned during the school year. The modules required knowledge in carpentry, plumbing, electricity and interior finishing. However actually incorporating these into a wall section caused a few problems.
“They knew how to thread pipe and cut pipe for the plumbing but then when they had to drill the hole in the stud they found out a little extra detail about plumbing. The hole that is drilled through the wall has to be lined up,” explained Mr. Vickers.
“By doing these modules they got a lot more experience working with the interior. Until now we had never done a tile floor, worked with interior molding, base molding or shoe molding along the floor,” he continued.
Each module had a light and either a three-way or two-way switch and at least one socket. They all had an outside faucet with a pipe running through the dry wall, interior molding and a tile floor. Some groups put up exterior trim to make their module look like a bam. The modules were painted according to the group’s wishes.
Mr. Vickers told his classes that he would keep the best module to
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