Star Group – Veterans Helping Veterans thanks Ben Redding and Dal-Tile (www.daltile.com) for their tremendous donation.
As we were looking for companies to partner with us to renovate our new headquarters, our volunteers went out into the community and contacted business that might be willing to help with our cause. One of our volunteers, Sheila Timmons lives in Dallas and decided to contact businesses in that area because she knew several people in the Dallas-Fort Worth area who have loved ones currently serving the in the US Military and she knew they would love to be a part of supporting Veterans.
She contacted Ben Redding of Dal-Tile and requested his assistance. Due to the massive request to provide all the tile flooring needed for the headquarters building, Ben stated he would have to forward to his corporate office. Ben must have done an excellent job selling the organization because Dal-Tile agreed and donated approximately 2500 sq. ft. of ceramic tile. The tile was shipped from Oklahome to the Arlington location. A Budget Truck was rented by SG-VHV Mr John Robertson and Mr. Michael Barker for the pick-up.
The adventure began, when the SG-VHV Team (consisting of Mr. Jonathan Haywood and Mr. Curtis Puckett) went to pick-up the tile.
There are no words for the hard work that went into loading the truck and un-loading the truck! Yes that is correct the guys loaded almost 2500 sq. ft. of tile, even Ben was loading (and he is the location manager). But when the SG-VHV Team left the site they noticed the truck was overloaded and they turned around and went back to the Dal-Tile. After contacting the Budget Truck office they found the truck could not handle that load … these tiles weighed 10,000 lbs. Now the fun began, removing the entire truckload of tile. Everyone worked again and then Ben of Dal Tile stepped up again and said his company would pay and ship the product to the new headquarters. Not only did Ben have it shipped it was delivered in Copperas Cove the very next day.
A special Thank you goes out to Ben Redding for going over and above and Dal-Tile for supporting SG-VHV and we hope to see them at the grand opening!
Please support Dal-Tile by requesting their products on your next project! Their products can be purchased from your Lowes, Home Depot and other area distributors. www.dal-tile.com