Article: Habitat for Humanity recycles entire house: ; Parts will be sold at ReStore; new house to be built on site

Reduce. Reuse. Recycle.

Officials for Habitat for Humanity hope to promote all three concepts with a house they're taking apart in Dunbar, piece by piece.

"Velvet crowbar; that's our motto," said Shawn Means, executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Kanawha and Putnam counties.

More than 140 volunteers are taking turns deconstructing the house on Dunbar's 19th Street. When they're finished, everything that can be salvaged from the house will be taken to Habitat for Humanity's ReStore, a facility at 301 Piedmont Road that resells used building materials and fixtures.

Habitat for Humanity volunteers routinely save doors and other easily removed parts of houses they plan to tear down, but ...

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