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| From Lynn Clark, Development Director for Habitat for
Humanity of Greater Baton Rouge:
What a wonderful experience it was for Habitat for
Humanity of Greater Baton Rouge to work with Tile Partners
for Humanity this past fall! From the national tile
and tile-products manufacturers to the local store
owners and professional installers, everyone was so
incredibly generous and supportive. It was one of the
best partnerships our affiliate has been involved in.
The benefits were many – our homeowners received
gorgeous, long-lasting tile floors and our volunteers
were able to learn a great new skill under the patient
tutelage of the skilled installers. We definitely hope
to have the good fortune to work with Tile Partners
in the near future!
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| Youth Build/Church
Coalition Build: HFH of Greater Baton Rouge (October/November
2004) |
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New homeowners and neighbors Katina
Coleman, Val Robinson and Sonja Pania stand in
front of Pania's new home in Baton Rouge. |
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Five homes totaling
4,200 square feet of floor tile |
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Habitat for Humanity of Greater
Baton Rouge (Louisiana) |
| Aztec
Tile Company: |
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1,300 square feet of tile |
| Bolick
Distributors: |
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810 square feet of tile
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| BPI: |
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735 square feet of tile plus two days of installation
labor and
training |
| Jenkins
Tile Company: |
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735 square feet of tile plus four
days of installation labor and
training |
| Rickert
Tile: |
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810 square feet of tile |
| Viking
Distributors: |
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1,100 square feet of tile |
| Laticrete
International: |
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Setting materials, including floor
preparation materials, thinset
mortar and sanded grout for full project. Laticrete
also donated
three days of installation labor and training. |
| Aqua
Mix: |
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Cleaners and sealers for the full
project |
| Orchid
Ceramics: |
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Three days of installation labor
and training |
| Accardo
Tile: |
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One day of installation labor and
training |
| TileArts: |
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Hand-painted tiles for each new
Habitat homeowner |
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Industry partners donated tile,
floor preparation materials, thinset mortar,
sanded grout,
tile tools, cleaners and sealers, and hand-painted
tiles for new Habitat homeowners as part of Habitat
for Humanity of Greater Baton Rouge’s Youth
Build/Church Coalition build in October and November
of 2004. A number of these same partners as well
as additional industry partners donated time and
expertise to teach homeowners and Habitat volunteers
to install tile in five new Habitat homes.
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homeowners Robin Bradley, Katina Coleman, Stacy
Dorsey, Sonja Pania, and Val Robinson worked on
site with industry partners and other volunteers
to install their new floors over two weekends.
Local tiling volunteers included students from
Episcopal High School, Catholic High School and
Louisiana State
University’s Habitat chapter as well as members
of the United Methodist Churches of Baton Rouge,
Broadmoor Baptist, Shiloh Baptist, and Beth Shalom
Synagogue.
Two other schools, St. Joseph's Academy and University
High School, helped to build two of the homes.
Other volunteers and neighbors also volunteered
time to tile and grout the homes.
Local tile
artist
Connie
Bourgeois
of TileArts
also painted one personalized tile for each homeowner
as a gift for their new homes. |
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| A member of Louisiana State University's Habitat
chapter spreads Laticrete thinset in the new home
of Sonja Pania in Baton Rouge. |
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Allen Blades of Jenkins Tile sets tile donated
by Aztec Tile Company with Laticrete thinset. |
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| Donny Walton of Orchid Ceramics and Jack LeBlanc
of Laticrete set Orchid tile donated by Viking Distributors
with Laticrete thinset. |
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Ally Fertitta of TPFH, Diane Deaton of WAFB-TV,
Connie Bourgeois of TileArts, and Lynn Clark of Habitat
with new homeowner Stacy Dorsey and a hand-painted
tile donated by Bourgeois. |
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| Rev. Van Stinson of First Methodist Church helped
Kenny King of Jenkins Tile set tile donated by BPI
in the Coleman home. The Habitat Methodist Connection
built two of the five homes. |
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Ronnie Accardo of Accardo Tile works with new homeowner
Robin Bradley to tile her Habitat home. |
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| Donny Walton of Orchid Ceramic stands with new
homeowner Sonja Pania and Galen Vicknair of Viking
Distributors with tile donated by Viking for Sonja's
home. |
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Thomas Bourgeois, a junior at Catholic High School
in Baton Rouge, mixes Laticrete thinset outside the
home of Sonja Pania. |
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| Timmy Albright of Jenkins Tile in Baton Rouge spreads
Laticrete thinset on the back of a tile donated by
Jenkins as he works in the kitchen of Val Robinson's
home. |
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Victor Leotta, a Habitat volunteer, helped to set
tile in the new home of Robin Bradley. |
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| Jerry Holliday of Jenkins Tile in Baton Rouge sets
tile donated by Jenkins in Val Robinson's living
room. |
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Larry Romero of BPI spreads Laticrete thinset and
sets tile donated by BPI in the home of Katina Coleman. |
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| William and Jack LeBlanc, brothers working for
BPI and Laticrete in Louisiana, worked together to
tile the new home of Sonja Pania in Baton Rouge. |
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WAFB's Diane Deaton sets tile in the new home of
Robin Bradley in the Crosscreek subdivision of Baton
Rouge. |
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| New homeowner Katina Coleman helped her new neighbor,
Sonja Pania, grout her floors. |
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Four high school and college volunteers in Baton
Rouge use Laticrete materials and NATTCO floats to
grout Val Robinson's floor. |
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| New homeowners Sonja Pania and Katina Coleman grout
a room in Sonja's new home with NATTCO tools and
Laticrete's Sand Beige grout. |
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HFHGBR grouting volunteers on Sunday, Nov 7, 2004
in Baton Rouge |
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| Percy Young with Jenkins Tile in Baton Rouge taught
student volunteers from Episcopal High School in
Baton Rouge to grout Val Robinson's new home. |
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Habitat volunteers use Laticrete materials to grout
the floor of Katina Coleman's new home. |
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| New homeowner Sonja Pania sits in the doorway of
her newly-tiled home after working with industry
volunteers to grout the floor. |
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Habitat homeowners, like Sonja Pania, used Aqua
Mix grout sealers to seal their new tile floors in
Baton Rouge. |
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| Robin Bradley stands in the door of her new home
in Baton Rouge. |
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Val Robinson in her newly-tiled laundry room |
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| View of Pania living room and kitchen |
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New homeowner Sonja Pania stands in her kitchen,
which was tiled with Orchid Ceramics tile donated
by Viking Distributors in Baton Rouge. |
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| Stacy Dorsey living room |
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Robin Bradley kitchen |
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| Stacy Dorsey bathroom |
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Aztec Tile Company in Metairie, Louisiana, donated
this tile for the Dorsey home in Baton Rouge. |
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