Official partnership between the tile industry and Habitat for Humanity International

 
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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

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.

 
A volunteer with InnerChange, a Houston prison group, uses a NATTCO tile cutter to cut tile donated by Master Tile in Houston, Texas.   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.
     
 
Gillian and Brian Turner of NATTCO show how tired they are after tiling the Scoby kitchen.   Matt Leathers of PJK Ceramic Tile & Marble visits with Gillian and Brian Turner of NATTCO.
     
 
Volunteer Pavel Rusek uses a NATTCO wet saw to cut tile donated by Master Tile.   Volunteers used NATTCO buckets for everything from mixing thinset to carrying sponges and water.
     
 
NATTCO's Brian Turner shows new homeowner Tracy Scoby how to spread thinset with a NATTCO notched trowel.   NATTCO's Gillian Turner prepares a floor for tiling in Houston, Texas.