News - page 5

The Millennium Group and THE NAILER applaud Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for Humanity embraces green building products and builds with THE NAILER, a 100% recycled plastic drywall backer made by The Millennium Group in Loveland, Colorado.

(PRWEB) March 14, 2005 -- The Millennium Group, a Loveland, Colorado marketing and computer company, applauds Habitat for Humanity and their affiliates for using green building products and utilizing sustainable building principles. For over a decade, Habitat affiliates have been embracing one of the Millennium Group's inventions- -"THE NAILER", a drywall backer made from 100% recycled plastic, that replaces wood blocking and metal clips for supporting interior drywall corners.

"Habitat was one of our first customers and far surpassed traditional builders in their willingness to try new inventions and especially green building products", explained Andy Pizer, inventor and president of the Millennium Group. "While typical builders held firm to age old construction techniques, Habitat understood the necessity to honor the environment and cut down on their labor and lumber expenses. As a result, we offer them substantial discounts, help promote their building projects and enjoy lending our hand on-site whenever we can. We think they're great!"

In turn, Habitat affiliates are excellent about sharing their experiences with the Millennium Group.

John White, the Construction Manager for Salem Area Habitat for Humanity, highlights the benefits of using The Nailer: "Can't tell you how much we here at Salem Area Habitat for Humanity have enjoyed using your product. My first order was on blind faith that it looked like a great idea, and was quickly shown that prayers do get answered. As you probably know, Habitat for Humanity uses almost all volunteer labor. I took very little teaching to explain and show how to use THE NAILER and after some initial stumbling, the volunteers were looking for more places to put them and talked about removing some studs and saving them for the next house! I can tell you that THE NAILER preformed beautifully for us in a pretty good example of a stress test. In August of 2002, our affiliate built a house in 12 days at the Oregon State Fair, during the fair. A house moving company came in and set up two steel I beams that we built the entire house on from start to finish, and then moved the intact home onto its permanent foundation 1 mile from initial build site. After the house was moved, it was jacked up until we poured the foundation under it, and then lowered. We had an amazingly low number of cracks in the drywall and none involved THE NAILER. Well done!"

THE NAILER offers substantial savings in labor, materials and time and can
save over $1,200 per 2,000 sq. ft. home in labor, lumber and subcontracting expenses-- serious savings for Habitats that must carefully watch their bottom lines. They must also pay heed to their volunteers who are not typically trained in construction work. Since THE NAILER is so easy to use, Habitat construction managers can train volunteers rapidly while also receiving other benefits with easier plumbing, electrical and insulation installation and energy efficiency.

"It's a win, win situation", says Brian Biggs with the Millennium Group. "We look forward to receiving calls from new affiliates and truly respect what they are doing. We're glad to support them in any way we can. Andy Pizer, the inventor of The Nailer, took a vacation in Kauai and ended up spending most of his time at the local HFH affiliate on the island, helping them with their building plans and fixing all of their computers as well! It was his way of offering support."

For more information about this green building product, please visit www.thenailer.com and view an online video about the product. Or call the Millennium Group at 800-280-2304 and they will send you a free multimedia CD in Spanish and English.