NBN Online for the week of August 22, 2005

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In This Issue:

Front Page
Habitat Designation for Salmon Weighs Economic Impact
Builders Urged to Join Energy Code Rollback Campaign
Subscribe Your Employees — You Could Win a Digital Camera
Layouts for Living
Floor Plans: Something Rustic, Something New
Coast to Coast
Speculators Push Housing Rents Down
Politics & Government
HUD Awards $10 Million for Housing for Alcoholics
Economics & Finance
Starts Exceed 2 Million for Fourth Month in a Row
Builder Confidence Riding High in August
Tips
Builders' Tip: Painting Lots of Doors All at Once
Business Management
Job Site Safety Programs Reduce Injuries, Save Money
IBS
Custom Builders to Gather at New Orleans Symposium
Hot Topics Offered at Sunbelt Builders Show
Multifamily
High Home Sale Prices Lift Demand for Rentals
Remodelers
VA Grants Help Remodelers Meet Veterans’ Special Needs
Calling All Subs — And Hiring the Right One
Build_Systems
Tile Roof Installers to Launch Certification Program
Education
20 Clubs: Share What You Know, Gain What You Need
Education Calendar
Sales
Stop, Look and Listen to Your Customers
Regulation
Landlord Accused of Refusing to Rent to African-Americans
Labor
HBI Grad the First to Be Named to Job Corps Hall of Fame
Building Products
Sheathing Outperforms OSB in Non-Structural Walls
Applicator Network for Floor Underlayments Grows
Builder's Engineer
The Husband and Wife Gamble
TV
NAHB-Produced Shows on HGTV & DIY — This Week
Endowment
Kemp to Speak at Endowment-Sponsored Lecture at Harvard
Association News
NAHB Fall Board Meeting in Reno Sept. 7-11
Save on Dell™ Computer Products
Calendar of Events

Related Articles

Sheathing Outperforms OSB in Non-Structural Walls

Applicator Network for Floor Underlayments Grows

Hacker Industries announced earlier this month that Idaho-based Lite-Crete, LLC is the newest licensed applicator for its line of gypsum concrete floor underlayments.

Headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif., Hacker Industries is a member of the National Council of the Housing Industry — the Supplier 100 of NAHB.

“We’ve been searching for a high-quality floor underlayment to offer our customers that not only provides a hard surface for floor coverings, but also offers excellent sound control and fire resistance ratings,” said Mike Anton, president of Lite-Crete.

To ensure quality control, Hacker Industries distributes its products through a network of trained and licensed applicators rather than selling to the general public.

The company’s floor underlayments have been applied to a variety of structures for various applications:

  • Sound resistance that is vital to comfortable living in multifamily projects

  • A one-hour fire rating in an apartment or office building

  • Acting as an effective thermal floor mass for radiant heating floor systems

  • Providing a level, solid surface for floor coverings


To meet a growing market demand for a quality installer of cementitious floor underlayments, Lite-Crete will be installing the premier line of FIRM-FILL® Gypsum Concretes, GYP-SPAN® Radiant, Hacker Floor Screeds and sound control products supplied by Hacker Industries throughout northern Idaho and eastern Washington.

Since 1983, Hacker has installed more than one billion square feet of floor underlayments.

For more information on Hacker and its entire line of products, click here, or call 800-642-3455.

This feature is solely for educational and informational purposes. Nothing on this page should be construed as policy, an endorsement, warranty or guaranty by the National Association of Home Builders of the featured product or the product manufacturer. The National Association of Home Builders expressly disclaims any responsibility for any damages arising from the use, application or reliance on any information contained on this page.


 

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