Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 66, Decatur, Adams County, 19 March 1962 — Page 2
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Picnic Patio Decks Provide Next-to-Nature Dining Areas
Food always tastes better when served outdoors, but not every fatally can get away to the beach or mountains for a picnic, The solution Is to provide a picnic spot in your own back yard. More American famflies are discovering they can have a picnic every evening and week-end through the long summer months. The answer is to build a handy wood patio deck right outside the kitchen door. This kind of outdoor picnic area combines the convenience of a close-to-the-kitchen spot with a next-to-nature feeling. If your back yard is sheltered with fences or hedges, your picnic patio deck caa be’ a simple but lovely installation. Be sure you have
sturdy foundation framing of husky Douglas fir construction lumber. Generally, 2xlos or doubled up 2x8s provide adequate framing support. Be sure that 4x4 wood posts rest on concrete blocks free of the ground. ""The patio""deck can be built of
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2x4s or 2x6s in fir. Some decks are laid with the narrow edge of the 2x4 facing up, but, in any case, be sure there is a slight spacing between the boards of the deck to allow for easy runoff of water. This also makes it simple to use the garden hose to clean the deck of leaves. If your back yard has no shelter, you will want to install some sort of screening walls on one of more side of the patio. An attractive screen can be made of louvered boards set so that cooling summer breezes can blow across the patio deck. You can use Ixl2 fir or western red cedar boards for the louvers. They can be nailed to top and bottom 2x6 caps to give rigidity and strength., You can stain these screens or let them weather. You can design these patio decks so they are rectangular, or you can make them into all sorts of attractive shapes such as diamond, crescent. circular. You can also build permanent benches around the perimenter of the deck to provide lounging seats for extra seating space. There is no limit to the many variations you can build into these picnic patio decks. Just let your imagination have full sway. Basement Wanted By Home Buyers “We made a mistake.” Thus do people who bought post-World War Il basementless houses lament their decision. Many of these people have outgrown their smaller homes, but when they buy, they say one thing they will insist on is a house with a basement. ... We want our furnaces in the basement where it can warm the floors, they point out. We also want wood floors, because they are so much easier on the feet. We need storage room and a workroom. they insist. Basement space is inexpensive, builders point out. sometimes only as little as a $1.50 a square foot more than slab floors.
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The Chalet is the perfect answer to the leisure needs of a family that "rests” on the slopes. Detailed plans are available from Douglas fir Plywood Assn., Tacoma 2, Wash.
Chalet Adds Good Living To Ski Trips Just something to keep out the rain —that's about all it takes for comparative comfort beside a summer stream or a sun-baked lake. But for the growing numbers of families that favor winter vacations on the ski slopes, or prefer the cool heights to the sweltering plains, a leisure home is something else, again. Liddle & Jones, Tacoma. Wash., architects who are completely familiar with the state’s towering Cascades, have created a new version of the Swiss favorite, called The Chalet. It’s the perfect answer to mountain-lovers’ dreams, whether it's to be built hideaway, or as a combination winter and summer retreat. Shrugs Off Snow Everthing needed to shrug off the overwhelming weight of deep mountain snow is built right into The Chalet. Rugged rafters of 4x4 and 4xlo lumber support a roof deck of %-inch plywood. More timber frame the thick, insulated walls and brace up the cantilevered eaves. Fir plywood panels; used full-size, add strength to the wafts and l-tfeinch thick - panels provide a sturdy floor . Another welcome feature of the exterior is the winter entrance from the second-floor balcony. When the deep snows drift in forget the regular entry and forget shoeing backaches — ski off the balcony or use steps to the snow level. . Planned for Winter The interior is ideally planned for snug winter recreation. The spacious living room is a full two stories high. . with a stone fireplace and chimney soaring past the old-country balcony upstairs. The big windows bring i n plenty, of light, even on cold, wintry days, and the wide expenses inside allow the firelight to flicker to the surest corner. There’s a • bedroom, complete bath and compact kitchen on the| first floor, in addition to the 14x20 living-dining area. Upstairs there is room for an extra bathroom, another bedroom and plenty of bunks for guests. There are five small Closets upstairs, a wardrobe closet in the lower bedroom. Not CompUcanted The front of the house is typically Swiss —a spacious upstairs balcony, twin to the one at the rear, overhangs a big porch that's a perfect place to sit on a warm summer day and look off to the; smog over the city in the distance.i There’s nothing compile ated i
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The soaring, two-story height of the Chalet’s living area, coupled with the welcome fireplace, make for real comfort
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about construction of The Chalet, but it’s not a job for an amateur, either. A two-story house built to withstand heavy snow requires reasonable skill and experience to build. A complete set of detailed plans, including simplified instructions for building, and a list of all materials, is available for 25 cents from the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma 2. Wash. Be sure to specify The Chalet. A catalog showing floor plans and full-color illustrations of 18 other leisure homes is available from the same address. Include 25 cents for mailing and handling. Cost About SIO,OOO A contractor in your area should be able to build The Chalet for about SIO,OOO — probably a little less. If your lot is in a remote location that’s hard to reach with a truck, it probably will be a little higher. If you can do
some of your own work, you will be able to save some money, of course. Here’s a generalized cost breakdown: Total materials about $4,000; total labor, $3,500; plumbing fixtures and labor, $650; wiring and labor, $500; fireplace, SBOO. This includes a coat of toxic sealer on all exterior woodwork, but no other paint, and interior cabinet work. It does not include bathroom accessories such as towel racks and medicine chest; built-in seat and table; septic tank; refrigerator, or range. The wide range of prices for these items makes a general estimate impractical. Leaving off the the lower deck would cut the cost about $375. Try, too, io pick a site that won’t require extensive excavation. Working with a bulldozer on a granite mountain hillside can be an expensive proposition.
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COMMUNITY FALLOUT shelter Is Laketon Township, near Muskegon, Mleh., tinder eoncorporation to pay for M» underground shelter.' Participants pays 4» per family member if they work on the shelter, aM $75 per person if they
Community Fallout Shelter Need Backed by U.S. Individual Action
The United States, through the Department at Defense, has launched a major program to provide fallout shelters for Americans as the key element of a greatly expanded civil defense program. The new “Fallout Protection” booklet, prepared by the Defense Department and available to the public through post offices and local civil defense offices, explains that community fallout shelters are now being stressed because: # , 1. A LARGER than familysize group probably would be better prepared to face a nuclear attack than a single family, particularly if some members should be away from home at the time of an attack. 2. There would be more opportunity to find first aid and other emergency skills in a group, and the risk of radiation exposure after an attack could be mare widely shared. 3. Community shelters would provide shelter for persons away from their homes at the time of an attack. 4. Group shelters could serve as a focus for integrated community recovery activities in a post-attack period. L Group shelters could serve other community purposes, as well aa offer protection from fallout following an attack. Group shelters hi office buildings, schools, hospitals, subways and other structures accessible to the public will be stocked with austerity rations of food and water for five days, radiation detection instruments, first aid kits, and necessary tools. Many structures are easily-adaptable as community shelters.
Stepped Deck Replace Porch Getting tired pf the old back porch? Then here's away to make it an exciting part of your home. Tear out the old porch and in its stead build a lovely, attractive stepped up wood deck made of 2x4s laid on edge. Build one deck of edge-laid 2x4s at the level of your house floor. It can be of any size, but probably one of the feet would be adequate. Then, build wide steps around two or three sides of the deck, stepping down to the yard at normal stair depth. These steps should be extra wide, maybe as much as two feet. If you have the height, you can get as many as three or four such extra-wide steps. The effect is to create a stunning
don't. The shelter, now entirely covered by earth and nearing completion, will Include a community room, kitchen, lavatories, 25 family compartments, deep well, a gasoline-operated generator and standby generator, and a control room and radio room for outside communication during an emergency. (Muskegon chronicle Fhotoi
In addition, neighborhood and community groups in various parts of the country are forming tax districts or non-profit corporations to construct shelters for themselves. A typical example of such a group is in Laketon Township, near Muskegon, Midi., where a 175 x 30-fobt underground Concrete block structure is nearly complete for 200 persons (48 families). By do-it-yourself methods, the shelter cost has been cut to S4O per person for those helping with the work, and $75 per person for those unable to work. • • • PROJECT HEAD William Weisner and the group working
entry to your home, whether it is to the front door of the back door. Douglas fir is a good wood for such installations because it is hard and will wear for many years. The 2x4s should be spaced slightly to allow | water to run through and the decks j may be stained or painted with deck paint or left to weather to a silver grey. Child’s Play House Easy Io Construe! If you have a back yard, you, have room for a child’s play house. And how the little ones love a place where they cah play house. A simple wood deck of one-inch lumber, laid on a frame of 2xßs set on two-foot centers, will porvide an adequate floor. The rest of the play house can be simple or elaborate. A roof is a must for! shelter from sun and rain and adds to the months the children, ,can play outdoors. Again, a simple' shed type of roof, frartied with 2x4 rafters, will fill the bill. Use inexpensive shiplap luhber for the roof, then cover with lightweight roofing paper. Douglas fir is ideal for both rafters and roof. i To add more comfort, you cani install two or three simple board ! walls, you will probably want to leave one side open facing the • house so you can keep an eye on! the children at play. Leave win-.] dows on one or more sides. Scale the play house to the sizei of the youngsters. You can paint! the building with exciting bright colors which children love.
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with him started the ball rolling by sending a circular to all registered voters of Laketon Township setting a meeting time and place to discuss the shelter. Expecting a turnout of about 75, they were overwhelmed by an interested crowd of about 300. Enough signed up to go ahead with the shelter by pooling finances and designing and construction talent. The “Fallout Protection” booklet also recognizes that “many families, because of their location or individual preferences, will choose family fallout shelters.” Several home fallout shelter designs are offered in the booklet, including some which could be built on a do-it-yourself basis few $l5O or less.
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