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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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| HFH of Benton
County (Arkansas, February 2005) |
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Volunteers installed Orchid tile
with Laticrete setting materials and Hardibacker
tile backerboard in this Habitat home in Rogers,
Arkansas. |
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One home totaling 1,100
square feet of floor tile |
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Habitat for Humanity of Benton County
(Arkansas) |
| Orchid Ceramics: |
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550 square feet of tile, or half the tile needed
for the project |
| Brandon Company: |
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550 square feet of tile, or half the
tile needed for the project |
| Laticrete International: |
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Setting materials, including thinset
mortar and sanded grout, for
the full project (1,100 square feet) |
| James Hardie Building Products: |
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Hardibacker tile backerboard for 500
square feet |
| Townzen Tile: |
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Hardibacker tile backerboard for 600
square feet |
| Lester Stephen: |
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Installation labor and training for
homeowners and Habitat
volunteers |
| Several industry members partnered to
provide tile and installation materials to tile the
full home of Brig Caldwell and his wife Maureen Obando
in Rogers, Arkansas. Though Brig and Mau had moved
into their Habitat home one year earlier, the laminate
floor initially installed by the affiliate failed when
the washing machine overflowed several months later.
And while TPFH is not in the practice of soliciting
tile for full-house projects unless there is a specific
need for the bedrooms to be tiled, our industry partners
generously agreed to donate materials for the full
amount of the project. (One such specific reason could
be a homeowner in a wheelchair or perhaps one with
severe allergies.)
As with two other Habitat projects in 2004, local
tile contractor Lester Stephen generously donated
his time to work with the Habitat volunteers and
homeowners to teach them to install tile. Lester
donated five full days in late February to prep
the floors and work with multiple volunteers, including
Brig, Mau, and Habitat staffers. In addition, several
volunteers from Wal-Mart’s Corporate Office’s
IT Division, who had donated time to work with
Habitat on the tile in an August 2004 home, agreed
to donate time to work on this home as well.
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| Lester Stephen, a contractor in Springdale, Arkansas,
measures for a tile in this Habitat bathroom. |
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Mau, a Habitat homeowner, cleans the newly-tiled
floors in her Habitat home in Rogers. |
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| Lester Stephen donated five days to help install
tile in this Habitat home in Rogers, Arkansas. |
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This Habitat volunteer installs Orchid tile with
Laticrete setting materials. |
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| A volunteer measures a tile for installation in
this Habitat home in Rogers. |
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Wal-Mart volunteers donated time to help install
tile in this Habitat home in Rogers, Arkansas. |
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| Volunteers installed Orchid tile over Hardibacker
tile backerboard with Laticrete setting materials. |
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Lester Stephen spreads Laticrete sanded grout over
Orchid tile in this Habitat home in Rogers, Arkansas. |
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| Volunteers installed Orchid tile with Laticrete
setting materials and Hardibacker in the bedroom
of this Habitat home in Rogers. |
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Volunteers used Orchid tile, Hardibacker tile backerboard
and Laticrete setting materials to tile this Habitat
home. |
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