Spectrum Building and Restoration Makes A Difference

On September 6, 2010, “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” traveled to Salem, Oregon, to meet the students at the Oregon School for the Deaf (OSD), a residential school for deaf and hard of hearing students known throughout the state for its curriculum in American Sign Language. The students learned that OSD was the recipient of a makeover during their back-to-school picnic when they saw an airplane pulling a 5000 square foot banner overhead greeting them with the message: “Good Morning, Oregon School for the Deaf!”

The funds from OSD’s annual Nightmare Factory, a spine tingling haunted house held for two weeks leading up to and including Halloween night in the basement of the boys’ dormitory, go a long way toward generating much-needed income for the 140-year-old financially-strapped school, a place which students consider their second home. The 12,000 square foot basement where the Nightmare Factory is usually held has become frightfully unsafe.

The EMHE design team had just seven days to make the OSD basement safe again and tricking it out in a scary and spectacular way for the annual Nightmare Factory. The improvements they could make would surely help increase OSD’s fundraising revenue for years to come.

The Starkey Hearing Foundation sponsored over 100 students and parents on a trip to their facility in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, while “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” team leader Ty Pennington, designers Michael Moloney, Paige Hemmis, John Littlefield, local builder Rich Duncan Construction, and community volunteers rebuild the structure.

DKI is the selected dry down and cleaning vendor for Season 8 of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.  Founded in 1974, DKI assists insurance carriers, commercial and residential clients with restoring properties damaged by fire, water, wind and mold. 

The Emmy award winning reality program Extreme Makeover: Home Edition airs Sundays from 8:00-9:00 p.m., ET on ABC.