Springboro contractor to help on 'Extreme Makeover' reality show

Log Home Care

Begun 15 years ago,

the company restores, repairs and refinishes log homes in a five-state area. The staff includes a handful of Springboro teachers who work summers, evenings and weekends.

Wayne Bell, owner, (937) 657-4565; loghomecare online.com; wayne@log homecareonline.com.

SPRINGBORO — A local contractor plans to drive more than 400 miles to North Carolina today, Nov. 12, to help give a family’s fixer-upper an extreme makeover.

Wayne Bell, owner of Springboro-based Log Home Care, will be chinking eco-friendly logs for a new home to be built this week for the Creasys, a family from Lexington, west of Raleigh in northern North Carolina.

“How can we say no? It’s going to help a family,” Bell said.

Bell was tapped for help by Perma-Chink Systems, makers of synthetic mortar produced in Knoxville, Tenn. The mortar will be used to fill spaces between “e-logs” made by Pine River Inc., in Charlevoix, Mich.

“On his own dime, he’s helping us get this thing chinked,” Perma-Chink sales representative Eric Huff said.

Bell, a former special education aide at Springboro Junior High School, now employs local teachers in the business he started with a power washer.

Bell committed to helping to apply the high-tech chinking before the ABC-TV reality show, “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,” awoke the Creasys on Wednesday, Nov. 11, with a knock on the door and an announcement delivered by bullhorn.

“I don’t need to be there for the door knock. I’ll leave tomorrow,” Bell said Wednesday.

Tricia Creasy, a seventh-grade teacher who is fighting colon cancer, her husband William and three children will be on vacation at Walt Disney World while “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” team leader Ty Pennington and the rest of the crew, along with volunteers from around the country, rebuild their home.

Bell and Huff plan to be up all night, applying 1,600 feet of chinking from 10 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday.

His trip will be funded through the company’s benevolence budget, Bell said.

“We’re always looking for opportunities,” he said.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2261 or lbudd@DaytonDailyNews.com.