Houston Habitat for
Humanity SuperBUILD XXXVIII
(Texas, March 2004)
NATTCO donated 34 buckets of new tile tools, one for
each house, to the project. The company sent tile cutters
of different sizes, wet saws, sponges, chalk cases,
spacers, notched trowels, grout floats, mixers, and
knee pads. NATTCO President Brian Turner and his wife,
Vice President Gillian Turner, both donated time to
install and train homeowners to install tile in the
homes. They worked one full day with Tracy Scoby, a
new homeowner, to tile his kitchen. Scoby had previous
experience as a paver, but had never tiled a floor.
After working with the Turners he expressed interest
in working in the tile industry.
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| A volunteer with InnerChange, a
Houston prison group, uses a NATTCO tile cutter
to cut tile donated by Master Tile in Houston,
Texas. |
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Gillian and Brian Turner of NATTCO
use notched trowels, margin trowels, knee pads,
sponges and buckets donated by their company to
tile the Scoby kitchen. |
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| Gillian and Brian Turner of NATTCO
show how tired they are after tiling the Scoby
kitchen. |
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Matt Leathers of PJK Ceramic Tile & Marble
visits with Gillian and Brian Turner of NATTCO. |
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| Volunteer Pavel Rusek uses a NATTCO wet saw to
cut tile donated by Master Tile. |
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Volunteers used NATTCO buckets for everything
from mixing thinset to carrying sponges and water. |
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| NATTCO's Brian Turner shows new homeowner Tracy
Scoby how to spread thinset with a NATTCO notched
trowel. |
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NATTCO's Gillian Turner prepares a floor for
tiling in Houston, Texas. |
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