The roof of the Youthworks facility on Cerrillos Road had seen better days, so early on the morning of Monday, January 16, a crew of thirty young people braved the cold to remove the existing roof to make way for a new insulated replacement.
The students are all a part of YouthBuild, our construction job training program. They usually work at the Habitat for Humanities work site, so Monday was a chance to work closer to “home.”
![The YouthBuild crew removes the old roof from the ¡YouthWorks! building.](https://santafeyouthworks.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-art-yw-roof4.jpg)
The crew shoveled the gravel covering the entire roof into wheel barrows, dumped the gravel off the roof into a dumpster, and then peeled back the tar paper to expose the entire roof.
![The YouthBuild crew carts away debris in preparation for installing the new roof.](https://santafeyouthworks.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-art-yw-roof3.jpg)
![The YouthBuild crew is hard at work removing the old roof from the ¡YouthWorks! building.](https://santafeyouthworks.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/blog-art-yw-roof1.jpg)
One of the crew demonstrated that his construction training had “taken” when he reminded a staff member who was taking photos of the work: “Always wear a hard hat when you’re working on a roof.”