The Vose school summer
School work in Vose is squeezed into ten weeks. As soon as classes end, roofing, seal coating, window replacement and gym floor work start at once, and a Vose campus can hold three separate contractors in the same two weeks. We put a standard unit and a handwashing station with each trade rather than a shared bank, because Vose site supervisors would rather not have roofers walking the length of a building.
Placement on a Vose campus follows one rule above all: nothing inside a play area, nothing against a fence a child can reach. Units on Vose school grounds go by the service drive or the loading bay, and we schedule pumping for the early window so the truck is gone before day camps arrive.
Churches and apartment courts in Vose
Vose has an unusual concentration of congregations for its size, and several run building projects, parking lot rebuilds or weekend festivals through the summer. A Vose church job is typically one unit for the contractor during the week and a second added for a Saturday event, then both pulled before Sunday services.
The apartment courts through Vose are mostly from the sixties and seventies and they are being reroofed, resided and repiped in sequence. On a Vose apartment repipe the crews move building to building, so the unit shifts with them and the handwashing station stays by the contractor trailer.
Tight streets and wet clay in Vose
Vose streets are narrow, with on-street parking on both sides and few driveways wide enough for a truck to pull clear. We size the delivery to what the Vose street can take, and on the tightest blocks we run the smaller truck and set the unit by hand from the curb line.
Ground conditions matter as much. The clay under Vose sits flat and drains slowly, so the strip between pavement and curb turns to mush by December and a unit left there settles unevenly. Gravel, asphalt or a driveway edge is what we look for on a Vose order, and plywood goes under anything sitting on bare soil through the winter.