Extreme Makeover: Home Edition - Toledo Ohio Project
Talk about a great Monday! Let me explain...
It was a normal late August Monday morning when Don Neill (Director of Sales) walks in my office and says, "Guess who I was just talking to", of course I said "I have no idea" and he said "One of the designers from the ABC Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and they want to use e-log on an upcoming "Hearts and Hands for Heroes project" in Toledo". My immediate reaction was, "yeh sure whatever, who was it really?". Well he said it again and I had no choice but believe him, and that's where the story begins...
From that discussion came the fact the family that was selected wanted a rustic log feel in their home in suburban Toledo, in fact the mom wanted logs so bad she had log wallpaper in her bedroom. The designers from ABC and those from Buckeye Real Estate Group (the local builder) began an internet search for log siding. The story has it that they both ran across www.e-logsiding.com and when they saw the pictures of the "lobby remodel" in our factory they decided that was the look they were after, so they that's when they called. Of course they had to get Ty's approval first and we are delighted that he agreed.
The scope of the project was determined and we needed to get all the e-log siding, trim and round vertical corners to the job site by September 15, which as only 2 weeks after everything was decided. Our entire e-log team worked extra hard on this as we wanted to provide the Frisch family the dream home they wanted. We were pleased to help out by installing the e-logs ourselves, so Don, Mike Kasuske, my daughter Aubrey and I arrived on site Thursday Sept 11 to begin the project. It was an amazing experience. There were people everywhere, the level of excitment was contagious and even after working 24 hours non-stop we were still relatively alive. A few short hours of sleep on Saturday morning and we were back on the job for another 8 hours. Sunday morning we finally finished the staining. With all the commotion and people to work around it took longer then we expected to finish, but it turned wonderful, we couldn't have been more pleased.
Now that the show has aired we can show you more. We are so pleased to have had the opportunity to participate is such a worthy cause. The Frisch family is very deserving of this beautiful house which they have made their "home"...
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