NARI Chicago Member Remodelers Donate Services for Special Needs Family
Summary
Heading the affair was Mike Pudlik, President of St. Charles-based Legacy Design and Construction, Inc., who offered to serve as project manager - which involved rounding up the needed unpaid manpower, soliciting vendors to donate products and materials and supervising all phases of renovation.“We wanted to use our skills and resources to help make a difference in the lives of this family, and that meant pulling together.” The team of more than a dozen NARI Chicago member volunteers - as well as a few non-member tradespeople who donated their help to the cause - began the job by knocking out the far bathroom wall into an unused area of the kitchen, essentially doubling the bath’s size from 40 to 80 square feet.Complicating matters was the fact that Mark had lost his job two years ago and was forced to switch careers, adding financial uncertainty to the family’s struggles.But relief was on its way, in the form of a cadre of caring contractors and suppliers who, upon hearing about the Evans’ plight, volunteered their time, services and materials to transform their bath into a wheelchair amenable, kid-proof, extra-large and thoroughly modern one.Heading the affair was Mike Pudlik, President of St. Charles-based Legacy Design and Construction, Inc., who offered to serve as project manager - which involved rounding up the needed unpaid manpower, soliciting vendors to donate products and materials and supervising all phases of renovation.“We wanted to use our skills and resources to help make a difference in the lives of this family, and that meant pulling together.”The team of more than a dozen NARI Chicago member volunteers - as well as a few non-member tradespeople who donated their help to the cause - began the job by knocking out the far bathroom wall into an unused area of the kitchen, essentially doubling the bath’s size from 40 to 80 square feet.