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Destroyed in four minutes, rebuilt in four days.
In this episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, a home that took less than four minutes for a tornado to destroy was rebuilt from the ground up in less than four days.
David Luecke, President of Nashville-based Capitol Homes, Inc., has been in a whirlwind of his own. Working with the program's designers and crew, Luecke, his staff, suppliers and subcontractors -- all of whom volunteered their time and materials -- had less than one week to clear the remaining rubble of the Hawkins' destroyed home and replace it with an Extreme home, complete with all the over-the-top design features and technologies the show's viewers have come to expect.
Luecke admits that when he was first contacted about the project, he was intimidated by the enormity of the task. Then, Luecke says, he recalled that "the first item on our company's list of core values says, 'Do the Right Thing.' The moment realized that, I knew we were going to build this house for the Hawkins family, and do it with class and with style."
"This isn't a 'Hollywood-movie-set' house," Luecke explains. "It's the Hawkins family's home, and we built it to last a lifetime. We assembled an incredibly talented team of building professionals from all across Middle Tennessee who knew how to make this happen in the time we were allotted."
Heritage Custom Homes, Capitol's sister company, provided the house design. "We employed a technique called 'vertical building,' where crews that normally work in sequence worked side-by-side to reduce a five-month construction cycle to four days." |
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