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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
Two-house build: HFH Valley of the Sun (Arizona, November 2004)
Marc Williamson of House of Tiles shows Habitat volunteers in Phoenix how to cut a tile on a wet saw.  
     
Project:   Two homes totaling 1,500 square feet of floor tile
Affiliate:   Habitat for Humanity Valley of the Sun (Arizona)
Daltile:   Full amount of tile for project (about 1,500 square feet)
Bonded Materials:   Setting materials, including thinset mortar and sanded grout, as
well as installation labor and training for Habitat volunteers
Ceramic Tile Institute of America:   Installation labor and training for Habitat volunteers
House of Tiles:   Installation labor and training for Habitat volunteers
     
Habitat for Humanity Valley of the Sun asked TPFH partners to provide tile, setting materials, and installation labor and training to tile two homes in Phoenix, Arizona, in November 2004.
 
 
Habitat volunteers in Phoenix listen to Marc Williamson of House of Tiles explain how to install ceramic tile.   A Habitat volunteer cuts a Daltile tile on a wet saw.
     
 
Habitat volunteers installed Daltile tile with C-Cure setting materials donated by Bonded Materials in Phoenix, Arizona.   Marc Williamson of House of Tiles worked with CTIOA Arizona and Bonded Mateirals to teach volunteers to set tile in two Habitat homes.
     
 
Marc Williamson of Phoenix-based House of Tiles measures for a tile cut in this Habitat for Humanity home.   Two volunteers clean a newly-tiled floor in this Habitat home before they set the final pieces of Daltile tile.