MOUNT AIRY, NC-Ten people from the company on Hay Street journeyed to Lexington on Nov. 13 to assist with building a house for a deserving family to be featured in a February segment of the reality TV show.
A group from United Plastics also returned to Lexington last Tuesday when the William and Tricia Creasey family came back to their old neighborhood from a vacation at Disney World and got its first look at the new 4,200-square-foot home. Tricia Creasey is suffering from Stage 5 cancer.
“It was really a great experience,” Jack Nagy, senior vice president of sales and marketing for United Plastics, said of the company’s involvement. “All of us who went down there feel very good about it.”
The local firm, which has been in business more than 60 years, donated time for the makeover as well as a special building material it manufactures.
The company contributed 3,000 pounds of a soundproofing membrane that goes into the walls, flooring and ceilings of new structures, which not only reduces noise from one room to another but controls air and moisture.
“This product is catching on in the building industry,” Nagy said.
He explained that officials of United Plastics had heard about plans by the producers of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” for the effort in Lexington and wanted to participate.
They then contacted the contractor for the project, Hedrick Creative Building of Lexington. Officials there were familiar with the local product and said it was the kind of material they wanted included in the new home to be constructed under “green,” environmentally-friendly standards.
The soundproofing membrane sheets are made from 100-percent-recyclable EVA (Ethylene Vinyl Acetate) plastic using materials derived from the automotive industry.
Nagy explained that the project at Lexington involved tearing down the Creaseys’ old home and building another in its place - all within seven days. Hedrick Creative Building enlisted the aid of a small army of skilled and non-skilled workers to complete the job.
The United Plastics delegation headed to Lexington on Nov. 13 and worked from midnight to about 7:30 the next morning. “They were filming the whole time we were there,” Nagy said of members of the television crew for the network show that airs on Sunday nights.
A group from United Plastics also returned to Lexington last Tuesday when the William and Tricia Creasey family came back to their old neighborhood from a vacation at Disney World and got its first look at the new 4,200-square-foot home. Tricia Creasey is suffering from Stage 5 cancer.
“It was really a great experience,” Jack Nagy, senior vice president of sales and marketing for United Plastics, said of the company’s involvement. “All of us who went down there feel very good about it.”
The local firm, which has been in business more than 60 years, donated time for the makeover as well as a special building material it manufactures.
The company contributed 3,000 pounds of a soundproofing membrane that goes into the walls, flooring and ceilings of new structures, which not only reduces noise from one room to another but controls air and moisture.
“This product is catching on in the building industry,” Nagy said.
He explained that officials of United Plastics had heard about plans by the producers of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” for the effort in Lexington and wanted to participate.
They then contacted the contractor for the project, Hedrick Creative Building of Lexington. Officials there were familiar with the local product and said it was the kind of material they wanted included in the new home to be constructed under “green,” environmentally-friendly standards.
The soundproofing membrane sheets are made from 100-percent-recyclable EVA (Ethylene Vinyl Acetate) plastic using materials derived from the automotive industry.
Nagy explained that the project at Lexington involved tearing down the Creaseys’ old home and building another in its place - all within seven days. Hedrick Creative Building enlisted the aid of a small army of skilled and non-skilled workers to complete the job.
The United Plastics delegation headed to Lexington on Nov. 13 and worked from midnight to about 7:30 the next morning. “They were filming the whole time we were there,” Nagy said of members of the television crew for the network show that airs on Sunday nights.
Employees of United Plastics Corp. in Mount Airy don’t normally work in front of television cameras, but they did just that for an upcoming episode of ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.”
511 Hay Street - P.O. Box 807 - Mount Airy, NC 27030 (336) 786-2127
www.United Plastics.com
www.United Plastics.com
