Elite Building Products:
Pittsburgh Project: Atlanta Habitat for Humanity

Elite Building Products donated setting materials, including Multipurpose thinset and sanded grout, to tile six homes in Atlanta’s Pittsburgh neighborhood. Elite President Bill Olsen and Sales Representative John Gallman donated several days to teach new homeowners, Habitat staff members and community volunteers to tile and grout. Olsen and Gallman also worked with Habitat house leaders who expressed interest in learning to tile so that they could teach homeowners and volunteers in future Habitat homes. Don Williams of Elite also donated time to work on one home.

Bill Olsen and Ally Fertitta of TPFH attended a community volunteer celebration at the Georgia Governor’s Mansion that was hosted by the Atlanta Habitat affiliate. There, they visited with other volunteers as well as Gov. Sonny Perdue and Consumer Advocate Clark Howard.

Denise Childs, an Atlanta Habitat house leader, uses a NATTCO grout float to clean Elite grout from tile donated by Zumpano Enterprises in this Atlanta home.
Elite Sales Representative John Gallman donated time to teach Atlanta Habitat house leaders to install tile with Elite setting materials.		Bill Olsen, president of Elite Building Products, mixes Elite thinset mortar donated by his company for six homes in Atlanta's Pittsburgh neighborhood.
A Habitat volunteer sets Hardibacker tile backerboard with a NATTCO notched trowel and Elite thinset mortar.		Denise Childs, an Atlanta Habitat house leader, sets Orchid Tile donated by Zumpano Enterprises with Elite Building Products thinset mortar and NATTCO tools
Lisa, a Habitat homeowner in Atlanta, uses a NATTCO notched trowel to spread Elite thinset in the kitchen of her new home.		Val Smith, an Atlanta Habitat house leader, and Mark Honeycutt, an Americorps member, use NATTCO trowels to spread Elite thinset in this Atlanta home.
Lisa, a Habitat homeowner in Atlanta, works with her sister to install tile donated by Doyle Dickerson Company.		Denise Childs, an Atlanta Habitat house leader, installs Florida Tile with Elite thinset mortar and NATTCO tools in this Habitat home.
Habitat volunteers installed Florida Tile with Elite thinset mortar and NATTCO tools over Hardibacker tile backerboard.		This Habitat volunteer sets Hardibacker tile backerboard with a NATTCO notched trowel and Elite thinset mortar.
Two volunteers from the Atlanta AIG office grout the bathroom floor in this new Habitat home.		Brian Wiggins, an Americorps member with Atlanta Habitat for Humanity, stretches to clean a floor he just grouted with Elite's sanded grout.
This Atlanta Habitat volunteer grouts the floor of Shemika Fluker's home with Elite sanded grout. Zumpano donated tile for the home.		Mark Honeycutt, an Americorps member working with Atlanta Habitat, uses a NATTCO sponge and bucket to clean Elite grout from the tile floor in this Atlanta home.
Elite Building Products donated setting materials to tile the floors in the home of Shemika Fluker.		Elite Building Products donated setting materials to tile the floors in this Atlanta Habitat home.
Ally Fertitta of TPFH, Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia, and Bill Olsen of Elite Building Products visit at the Georgia Governor’s Mansion in November 2004 at an event celebrating Atlanta Habitat partners.		Bill Olsen of Elite Building Products, Ally Fertitta of TPFH, and Atlanta consumer advocate Clark Howard visit at the Georgia Governor’s Mansion in November 2004 at an event celebrating Atlanta Habitat partners.
Atlanta Habitat Executive Director Larrie Del Martin, Elite Building Products President Bill Olsen, and TPFH Executive Director Ally Fertitta visit at the Governor’s Mansion.		TPFH's Ally Fertitta, Atlanta Habitat Sponsorship Manager Jill Redman and Construction Director Ray Maynard, and Elite Building Products President Bill Olsen at the Governor’s Mansion.