The heavy lifting has been done, and now employees of a Mount Airy company are ready for the fun part as they hope to see themselves on a nationwide television program Sunday night.

A 10-member crew from United Plastics Corp. on Hay Street participated in a housebuilding project in November for an episode of the “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” TV series. The show focuses on a different part of the country each week as volunteers complete new homes for deserving families.

The segment including the local workers, featuring the William and Tricia Creasey family in Lexington who couldn’t repair their house due to medical expenses accumulated by Mrs. Creasey, will be beamed into homes across the country Sunday over the ABC network.

Beginning at 8 p.m., it can be viewed locally on WXLV, Channel 45 (Channel 7 on the Time Warner Cable system).

“It’s going to be your typical ABC Sunday night show,” said Jack Nagy, senior vice president of sales and marketing for United Plastics, which has been in business for more than 60 years.

“Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” typically is sandwiched between two other popular programs on ABC’s Sunday night schedule, “Desperate Housewives” and “America’s Funniest Home Videos.”

But while the Mount Airy company and its products should benefit by the national exposure, Nagy added Monday that the opportunity to aid a worthy cause was foremost in the minds of those United Plastics employees who participated.

“We felt good about it,” said Nagy, who was among the group journeying to Lexington in mid-November when the ‘Extreme Makeover” show was produced. “Just doing it and helping folks out.”

United Plastics was included among a list of companies supplying environmentally friendly products for the Creaseys’ new house, which was built in just seven days after their former residence was torn down.

The Mount Airy firm donated 3,000 pounds of a soundproofing membrane it manufactures which goes into walls, flooring and ceilings of new structures. The product not only reduces noise from one room to another, but controls air and moisture.

The 10-member local delegation, which included company engineers, joined a small army of volunteers who completed the carefully coordinated project under the leadership of Hedrick Creative Building of Lexington, the contractor for the job. The group from Mount Airy worked throughout the night of Nov. 13 on its portion of the task that involved installing the soundproofing membrane produced from recycled materials.

“We feel good about it, and it is also something good for Mount Airy,” the company official said in reference to numerous industrial layoffs in recent years.

“In today’s day and age, it’s a morale boost for the local population and our employees,” Nagy added. “There’s something good coming out of Mount Airy.”

It is unclear how much exposure United Plastics employees will actually get come Sunday night, since no one locally has been able to see the program in advance, Nagy said. But there are indications that community residents will be glued to their sets to catch a glimpse of familiar faces. All those who took part wore blue shirts and white hard hats, with individual company logos not visible during the production.

No large-scale viewing parties among United Plastics personnel were scheduled for Sunday night at last report. “The only thing that’s going on here is we have a couple of our engineers roaming halls and reminding everybody” that the show will air then, Nagy said.

The United Plastics spokesman indicated that it is hard to gauge how the company’s inclusion on the hit TV series ultimately will benefit its sales and safeguard local jobs in an uncertain time.

“This is certainly going to help,” Nagy said.

Contact Tom Joyce at tjoyce@mtairynews.com or at 719-1924.