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On a recent Saturday, instead of kicking back, some R&H Construction employees spent their time giving back.

The employees, their families and subcontracting partners teamed up to remodel a Northeast Portland home on National Rebuilding Day. The effort was coordinated by Rebuilding Together Portland, a nonprofit that helps secure no-cost home repairs for low-income homeowners.

This year, the project team remodeled a Gateway neighborhood resident’s home. The homeowner, Beverly, recently suffered both a stroke and a heart attack and now has limited mobility. Structural changes were made to accommodate her.

R&H employees ranging from project managers to carpenters repainted the exterior of the entire house and garage, completed an overhaul of the whole yard, constructed a new deck with stairs in the backyard, and rebuilt the front porch to allow wheelchair accessibility.

Volunteers from subcontracting partners Rogers Painting and Teufel Landscaping also participated in the effort.

鈥淏everly is the most deserving recipient of this project,鈥� said Thomas Moore, an R&H Construction project manager and a three-time co-captain of the company’s Rebuilding Together team. 鈥淚t is the best feeling to help someone like her. This is my favorite project I get to work on each year.鈥�

Rebuilding Together Portland helps the elderly, people with disabilities, families with children and military veterans throughout Portland. Repairs and remodels typically include carpentry, plumbing, electrical, painting, debris removal and much more. Volunteers complete all the work, while a host of local general contractors and other partners participate in the program. They include R&H Construction, Swinerton Builders, Turner Construction, P&C Construction and others.

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