Rainbow International^® Restoration and Cleaning has begun construction on a training house at corporate headquarters that will provide hands-on experience for water damage restoration, real-setting beginner and advanced franchisee training sessions, educational demonstrations for the insurance industry, and corporate test-marketing of cleaning and restoration tools being considered for the network.

"This is the latest technologically-advanced structure that will put our franchisees and their technicians at the forefront of restoration services," said David Bethea, president of Rainbow International. "This type of training house will allow us to teach everything our technicians may encounter on the job. It will provide a higher level of understanding that you cannot get out of a textbook or traditional classroom situation."

The 1,200 square-foot training house is being built inside a 5,000 square-foot warehouse adjacent to Rainbow's existing training center on the corporate campus. The house will be equipped with its own heating, ventilation and air conditioning system and a variety of other independent features to train multiple restoration scenarios. It will feature capabilities to flood and restore the house repeatedly, to simulate smoke damage to a portion of the structure for repairs and also to train on drying crawlspaces. Specialized training on drying wood floors and Category II and III restoration services for gray and black water contamination will also be offered.

"We will simulate real jobs from the initial emergency phone call to the final clean-up and completion of the project," said Ed Jones, Vice President of Operations for Rainbow International.

Jones said the facility, which will host its first training class March 22, will be one of the best restoration training houses in the U.S. and Canada.

About Rainbow International:
Since 1981, Rainbow International^® Restoration and Cleaning has become a leading world chain of carpet care and restoration services ranging from carpet cleaning, repair and dyeing, deodorization and comprehensive water, smoke and fire damage restoration and cleanup. Rainbow International has more than 300 U.S. and Canadian locations and approximately 162 international locations. It is a subsidiary of The Dwyer Group, Inc., one of the world's largest Franchise holding companies in the residential and commercial service business.

About The Dwyer Group:
The Dwyer Group Inc., based in Waco, Texas, is a holding company that owns six franchisor corporations and Dwyer Group National Accounts. Each business sells and supports a different service-based brand name franchise under the following service marks: Aire Serv^® Heating & Air Conditioning, Glass Doctor^®, Mr. Appliance^®, Mr. Electric^®, Mr. Rooter^® (Drain Doctor^® in the UK), and Rainbow International^® Restoration and Cleaning. Collectively, the franchisees of these franchise concepts offer customers a broad base of residential and commercial services. Dwyer is a portfolio company of The Riverside Company, a private equity firm with offices in New York, Cleveland, Dallas and San Francisco. Riverside acquired Dwyer in a public-to-private transaction in October 2003.