Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 88, Decatur, Adams County, 14 April 1959 — Page 2

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' Reroofing Application Avoids Weather Ills In reroofing, asphalt shingles usually can be applied directly over the old roofing material. One big advantage of this is that the house is not left unprotected if a sudden rainstorm blows up before the new roofing is in place. : USE FOR OLD DESK • An old desk can be converted ! to a sturdy workbench. Take off I the old top and replace with 2 by 4s, glued together. Make new ', top long enough to provide over- ; -hang for woodworking vise. Cover with sheet of hardboard.

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Pitched Roof Saves Money On Construction of Home rFwUbi vVVyA Roofer applies asphalt singles In a light color to home with a roof pitch of 2 Inches per foot of width. Builder of this home in a California development says the construction costs saved with this low-pitched roof enabled him to offer a high quality home for as much as 20 cents less per square foot than the same house would cost with a fiat roof.

If you plan to build a home, you can save considerably or, overall construction costs by careful selection of the roof style, says the University of Illinois Small Homes Council. The* Council’s research shows that the most economical roof has a 12-in-12 pitch—that is, a slope of two inches for every foot of width—on a house either 28 or 40 feet wide. In its annual Short Course for Builders, the university research group explained that only a few years ago houses 24 feet wide with higher pitched roofs were the most economical to build. The main reasons this has changed are: 1. Trusses with joints nailed and glued together are available today. These are less costly than the older .method of joining members with bolts. 2. Today asphalt shingles can be applied to roofs with slopes as low as two inches per foot. This insures a top quality roof that is economical and will give years of trouble-free service. A further advantage of asphalt

Comfort Plus Economy

Insulation Pays for Itself

Question: What home improvement doesn’t cost a cent, yet adds genuine comfort, pleasure, and cash value to a house? Answer: Insulation, properly installed and in sufficient quantities. It’s true that mineral wool actually pays for itself in savings on heating fuel in a few years. It can cut heating costs as much as 40 per cent per year. In an actual case, here’s how this can work: A home owner calls in a mineral wool contractor and gets an estimate from him of S4OO to insulate the walls and ceilings of his home. At his bank, he borrows the S4OO on an FHA home improvement loan, repayable Th 60 months at $8.31 per month. Keeping careful records, he discovers that the insulation has cut sl2 a month off his old S3O a month fuel bill. Spread over the bulk of the heating season—the five months of November through March—this savings totals S6O. At $8.31 a month, the loan payments total $99.72 for the year. This means that the added comfort of the insulation FHA IN 25TH YEAR The Federal Housing Administration celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.

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shingles on a small, low house is that a light color can be chosen for the roof. This makes the house appear taller and larger. 3. Labor costs have gone up faster than material costs. Although a 28-foot house needs more material than a 24-foot house, it needs little more labor. The Council points out that the most expensive house to build is one with a flat roof. Research shows that at average, nation-wide costs of labor and materials it would cost $254 per 100 square feet of floor area to build a house 24 feet wide with a flat roof. The same house with a 2-in-12 roof would cost $234 per 100 square feet. Similarly, a house 28 feet wide with a roof pitched at 2-in-12 could be built for $228 per 100 sqUOT fcet,while the same house with a flat roof would cost $242 per 100 square feet. A house 40 feet wide with a flat roof would cost $237 per 100 square feet, while the same house with a roof pitched 2-in-12 could be built for $227 per 100 square feet. • -

: Hl l&Q ' Lit 4 bHHH Contractor insulates house from outside, forcing mineral wool into walls under air pressure. has cost the home owner only $39.72 per year during the repayment period, or a five-year total of $196.60. After that, since mineral wool never wears out and never needs maintenance, the S6O per year savings on fuel continue and in a short time wipe out the total of the entire investment. In subsequent years cash saved on fuel becomes clear profit to the home owner. A further savings many families experience is in reduced doctor bills and medicines. Good insulation helps in this direction by eliminating drafts and cold walls, thus cutting down on family colds. Today’s Roofing Hangs on Tight In Highest Winds Planning to reroof? It you live in an exposed, windy location or in an area subject to wind storms, don’t overlook wind resistant roofing. Today asphalt shingles can be applied to resist even winds of hurricane velocity. This assures complete protection from storms that can tear roofing material away, leaving the interior of the house exposed to heavy rains. Roofing contractors from coast tocoast use three principal methods of applying asphalt shingles to resist winds: 1. Self-sealing method. Shingles with a factory-applied backing of adhesive are applied with roofing nails in the conventional manner. The self-sealing adhesive ,bonds leach shingle tab firmly to the underlying shingle. 2. Interlocking method. Using asphalt shingles With a special locking device — usually tabs which slide into slots—the roofer’ locks each shingle to adjacent shingles. This provides a roof that is highly wind-resistant and attractive. 3. Hand application. Asphalt shingles are sealed down with a spot of quick-setting asphalt cement under each tab. Rock Granules Make Asphalt Roof Tough Colorful asphalt Rhingles get their rugged ability to resist the wearing effects of rain. ife and snow from innumerable tough rock granules'; embedded in the surface of the asphalt. These granules also act as an opaque coating to keep the drying rays of <he sun out of the delicate oils in the asphalt. GET EARLIER BLOOMS Quick color for the garden can be obtained in spring and early summer by purchasing potted plants in flower or about to flower. With some annuals, such as marigold, petunias, and zinnias, you’ll have a head start on blooms of as much as 6 to 8 weeks, 1 “ - ' -1

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IVoste Space Chased , i: . Old Screened Porch Now Family Room Award-wlnnln. porch enclosure In Darien. Conn., feature* special InataDaUon of poiideroaa pine windows to create more space, plus heat pump for winter heating, summer cooling.

Complete, year-around comfort and making full use of wasted : space were the principal aims of Loyd Dunning in converting an old screened porch into a family : room for his home in Darien, Conn. Dunning did such an excellent 1 job that his porch enclosure is 1 featured in the current issue of House Beautiful’s Building Manual. It is one of the first homes 1 to win the electrical industry’s Modernized Home Medallion. Among its many features is a heat pump that cools the room in summer and heats it in winter. Another feature is a bank of , awning windows of ponderosa ene installed slanting outward add more spaciousness.

i v-4 I i. < SigaHw RmOm ■ J 7 .s* *3^ n A Small House Planning Bureau Design No. C-291 DESIGN C-291. The first floor consists of an L-shape living room, combination kitchen-dinette, three bedrooms and bath. Plumbing costs are reduced by grouping the kitchen, bathroom and laundry piping in one wall. There is a full basement with the furnace in the center of the house. Wardrobe closets are used in the bedrooms, and additional coat and linen closets are provided. The front vestibule is quickly reached from the kitchen. Exterior finish includes shingle siding, asphalt shingles, brick planting area, picture window and covered entrance. Floor area is 1242 square feet, cubage is 23,598 cubic feet. For further information apout DESIGN C-291, write the Small House Planning Bureau, St. Cloud, Minn. In Canada, the Small House planning Bureau of Canada, St. John, New Brunswick.

Free Booklet Tells How To Plan Kitchen If you’re among the legion of fortunate homemakers who will be planning kitchens for new homes this year or modernized kitchens for older homes, you should find “The Wood Kitchen Handbook,* which is now available. It points out, for example, how in remodeling an old kitchen added space to accommodate a pehninsula or island room divider may be gained by removing a section of wall between the kitchen and the dining room. Other pointers are given on planning storage. work centers, dining space, luxury features, wiring. lighting and ventilation. Also 9 described and evaluted are the five basic kitchen layouts: the one-wnll plan, the corridor type arranement, the “U” shaped layout, the ”L” plan and the peninsulaisland plan v For a free copy of the booklet address a postcard or letter request to the National Institute of Wood Kitchen Cabinets, ‘ 75 E. Wa cker Drive, Chicago 1, 111.

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Other features include the most modern electrical system and lighting available, natural wood paneling, built in closets, movable shelving, and an acous-’ tical tile ceiling. Extra-thick insulation and double-glazed wood windows are the keys to economical heating and cooling. Mineral wool batts six inches thick were installed in the ceiling and batts three inches thick were installed in walls, according to specifications for electric heating and air conditioning. The floor, above an unheated, two-car garage, also was insulated with mineral wool six inches thick. This insulation, because it keeps heat inside in winter and

Factory ■ Built Wood Cabinets Easy To Install Attractive wood kitchen cabinets now are within the reach’of any home owner, according to lumber dealers and kitchen specialists, who points out that the units can be ! installed by a reasonably adept home craftsman. Among the more important words of caution for amateurs undertaking the job, these expects say. is the advice to handle the cabinets with reasonable care. a today’s factory-engineered wood kitchen cabinets, they explain are execeptionally strong and rugged. They are made like fine furniture. Consequently they deserve the same consideration in handling that one would give to fine * furniture. Another pointer which the do-it-yourselfer would be wise to observe: During installation, keep 'checking constantly to make sure 1 the cabinets are level. Use shirp wedges, if necessary, to level the base units. A perfectly level installation removes the possibility of unwarranted strain on the cabinets.

out in summer, made It possible to heat and cool the room with ■ a smaller, less expensive heat pump, which operates with greater economy. Wood windows and a combination storm and screen entrance door of ponderosa pine were chosen for two reasons: wood is a natural insulator, and it could be stained to match the wood paneling used on the walls and wainscoting. .In connection with the porch modernization, Dunning also equipped the house with a new electrical service entrance to handle present and future needs. Electrical modernization of the entire house js planned for the future.

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