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Miles Distributors


South Bend, Indiana www.milesdist.com		Emina Odabasic and her daughter, Lada, clean their new bathroom floor, tiled with tile donated by Miles Distributors.

Miles Distributors projects:

Clare County HFH: see below for details
Fort Wayne HFH: see below for details
HFH of Muskegon County: three-house build: see below for details
HFH of Mason County: single-house build: see below for details
HFH of Bowling Green/Warren County: three-house build: see below for details and pictures

Miles Distributors donated tile for a total of four projects in 2004 and one thus far in 2005. Pictures are not yet available for all projects, but will be posted as soon as TPFH receives them. Miles donated 500 square feet of tile for two Habitat homes in Harrison, Michigan (Clare County) in February 2005. The company donated tile for several homes in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where the company has a showroom, in December 2004. Miles also donated tile for a total of three homes in Muskegon and one in Ludington, Michigan, in September and October of 2004. They have also agreed to donate for additional homes in the Fort Wayne area.

HFH of Bowling Green/Warren County: three-house build (Kentucky, July 2004)

Miles Distributors donated 2,000 square feet of ceramic tile to tile three homes in Bowling Green, Kentucky, in July 2004. Industry partners worked with the Habitat affiliate to teach volunteers, Habitat homeowners and staff members to install the tile.


These six Habitat volunteers, known as Care-A-Vanners, traveled to Bowling Green from other communities to help install tile donated by Miles Distributors in July 2004.		A Habitat volunteer sets tile donated by Miles Distributors with Laticrete thinset and NATTCO tools.


Habitat volunteers installed tile donated by Miles Distributors with NATTCO tools and Laticrete thinset and SpecraLock grout.		Miles Distributors donated tile and Laticrete donated grout for these Bowling Green homes.


Volunteers tiled the utility area in this Habitat home in Bowling Green with tile donated by Miles Distributors.		New homeowner Bonita McKissic, left, visits with a volunteer as Jacqueline Blair, a future Habitat homeowner in Bowling Green, examines tile donated by Miles Distributors.