Cheldan Homes - Extreme Makeover Home Edition

10/19/09

Joey Goss leads the team as we make up for time lost

Last Nights Watch Party was "extremely" awesome! Pictures are coming soon... but first, ABC has uploaded a great clip of Joey Goss interacting with the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition cast. Check it out! CLICK HERE

10/18/09

IT'S HERE!!!

Catch The Marshall Family and Cheldan Homes tonight on ABC at 7:00pm Central!

See a SNEAK PEEK of tomorrow's show!

CLICK HERE for a sneak peek at the Marshall Family home. This is the first time in the history of the show that ABC and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition has allowed a snip of the interior to be seen before the actual airing. Of course, it's only just a peek!

FUN FACT FROM BEHIND THE SCENES: One of the first orders of business? Checking in hundreds of volunteers, passing out hundreds of blue "Extreme" T-shirts and assembling thousands of hard hats. Each volunteer helped keep inventory under control by washing their volunteer shirt each night and wearing it again the next day. Thanks to everyone for helping us out with the shirts and hats!

10/16/09

TWO more days!!

FUN FACT FROM BEHIND THE SCENES: Says Anne Carrancejie, Cheldan team member, "One incident that didn't go just as planned happened one night... um, morning, around 2 am. I was leaving to catch a few hours sleep and realized I had lost my car keys! I looked everywhere and was afraid they had fallen somewhere and were buried. One of the EMHE security officers made a slim jim and a wedge in the construction tent and opened up my car so I could get my purse and belongings. During this process, my alarm went off a couple times, waking those on-site who were trying to catch a couple hours of sleep themselves. I got a ride home with someone for my extra set and headed back the next day. Sorry to anyone who was woken up by a loud alarm that night!"

10/15/09

WHAT? Only three more days???

FUN FACT FROM BEHIND THE SCENES: One volunteer described an amazing moment when she saw that several of the subcontractors that volunteered were working straight through lunch, wouldn't even stop for snacks and only took water breaks until their particular job was finished. She then saw a Cheldan team member run to the food tent and grab plates full of delicious steak dinners and brought them over to the subcontractors to make them stop and eat.

Ironically, the team member running steaks is a vegetarian.

10/14/09

How you Feelin'? HOT! HOT! HOT!

Sylvia Espinosa-Stanley, Cheldan Team - Austin

FUN FACT FROM BEHIND THE SCENES: Temperatures during the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition project were level red ozone alert HOT. In fact, most days it stayed steady at 103-105 degrees F, and cooled to a balmy 98 degrees F at night with very little breeze. Volunteers learned the first day that rubber-soled shoes wouldn't work. At least 5 people's rubber soles melted into the pavement from the EXTREME heat!

10/14/09

Four More Days!

FUN FACT FROM BEHIND THE SCENES: The Burleson Star erroneously reported that the Marshall home would be built in Burleson, and encouraged Burleson residents to volunteer. Out on the job site, one of Cheldan's Burleson sales consultants met a couple who signed up thinking their assigned work shifts would be close to home in Burleson. Bless them, they still showed up, in good spirits, when they learned the actual location.

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10/13/09

ONLY 5 MORE DAYS!

Sunday is just around the corner and we are gearing up to see how it all comes together. Don't miss the Marshall Family as they leave their home for a week and come back to a whole new life! Catch all the details at Extreme Cheldan! Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for fun facts and information!

FUN FACT FROM BEHIND THE SCENES: Cops Moving Rocks - it was amazing to see volunteers line up to shuffle rocks to the home. They went up quick! In fact, the hand-off of rocks from one volunteer to another went faster than a forklift could get them to the house in a load. Now that's some heavy lifting!

10/12/09

The Countdown BEGINS!

The Marshall Family episode airs THIS COMING SUNDAY, October 18th at 8/7c on ABC. See Ty and Cheldan Homes build a dream home for Carlton Marshall, a former SWAT team leader and his wife Susan, a homicide detective.

Welcome Home Marshall Family!



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