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I think this
partnership will help us educate our affiliates across
the country to the importance of building a house
that is usable by the families and which, by its
very nature, will be easy to clean and the families
will be able to keep clean at a very minimal expense.
-- Millard Fuller, Founder and President, Habitat for Humanity International |
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| Clare County
HFH (Michigan, February/March 2005) |
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Two homes totaling
500 square feet of floor tile |
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Clare County Habitat for Humanity
(Harrison, Michigan) |
| Miles Distributors: |
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Full amount of tile for project (500 square feet) |
| Laticrete
International: |
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Setting materials, including thinset mortar and
sanded grout, for
500 square feet. John Holliday, senior technical representative, also donated
one day to teach student volunteers to install tile. |
| James Hardie Building Products: |
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Hardibacker tile backerboard for 500 square feet.
Joe Tinghitella, sales representative, also donated
one day to teach student volunteers to install
tile. |
| Custom Building Products: |
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New tile tools for the project,
including notched trowels, tape
measures, chalk lines, margin trowels, grout floats, tile cutters,
buckets, knee pads, grout sponges, aluminum straight edges and a paddle mixer. |
| Welch Tile: |
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Owner Dan Welch led a tile installation training
session for
nearly 50 students in a building trades class at Mid Michigan
Community College. |
| Industry partners donated materials
and installation training to tile two Habitat homes
in Harrison, Michigan, in February and March of
2005. Dan Welch of Welch Tile worked with Joe Tinghitella
of James Hardie Building Products and John Holliday
of Laticrete International to train nearly 50 students
to set tile. The three men spent Monday in the
students’ classroom, the M-Tec room at Mid
Michigan Community College, demonstrating tiling
techniques and describing what the students should
look for on job sites. The students’ professor,
Jack Decker, was on hand as well as Jim Russell
of the Clare County Habitat for Humanity affiliate.
The students assumed responsibility for the tile
installation in the homes after the training session.
There are no current pictures of this project,
but TPFH will post them once they are available. |
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