Construction continues on a new home for the Silva family in Warwick last night. It’s on schedule for a Monday completion.

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The Providence Journal / Ruben W. Perez

WARWICK — The thumps and bumps of construction can be heard along Yucatan Drive, where ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is building a house — from foundation to sconces — in one week.

Yesterday’s snow didn’t slow the construction crew, which kept warm inside because the furnace had been installed the day before.

“It didn’t affect us much because we had the roof on,” said Jonathan Caron, vice president of development for Oldport Homes, of Portsmouth, the primary builder. “If it had been a day earlier, we would have been in big trouble.”

The TV show chooses a deserving family, demolishes their house and rebuilds it in a week. The Silvas will see their new home for the first time on Monday, once construction is complete.

Crews spent much of the day inside, installing drywall and trim, painting and finishing the electrical work, said Caron.

Last night, tile and baseboards were being installed and cabinet work was being completed, Caron said. Today, they expect to install the door knobs, hardware and other finishing touches. The hardwood floors are yet to be installed.

Landscaping pretty much came to a halt yesterday, as the front lawn of the two-story home degraded into muddy mounds and deep puddles. A trellis for plants was installed in the backyard before the rain began, Caron said. But the cobblestone driveway that will lead to the new home can’t be laid in the rain.

“The landscapers are not too happy,” he said. The weather is expected to clear up later today, though it’ll remain chilly until tomorrow, when the contractors will hand over the keys to designers who will begin decorating the Silva family’s new home.

Though crews are working around the clock, Caron said the volunteers are helping move the project along smoothly. In a heated tent across the street from the site, volunteers such as 23-year-old Karissa Cruse, of Warwick, were taking a break to get warm. Tired volunteers looking to get out of the icy rain are greeted by hardwood floors, leather chairs, doughnuts, muffins and coffee. A massage chair sits folded into a corner next to the flat-screen television.

Cruse and her husband, Lucas, 22, were at the site from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Thursday, and came back yesterday at 5 p.m. “We’ve been picking up garbage, throwing wood and sheetrock out the window, stacking it up and putting it in the Dumpster,” Karissa Cruse said. “I cleaned the designer’s van earlier.”

There’s not a lot of time for autographs in between all of the manual labor, but Cruse did snap a few pictures between jobs.

The TV show sent the family — Kenny Silva, 35, his wife Doreen, 33, their two biological children, three adopted children and two foster children — on a vacation to Walt Disney World in Florida as crews razed, then rebuilt their house to three times its original size. The episode featuring the Silvas is expected to air in the spring.

Bank of Rhode Island is accepting donations at all of its branches to help defray the additional costs of taxes and utilities for the Silvas’ new house.

tbuford@projo.com