Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 223, Decatur, Adams County, 21 September 1964 — Page 2

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Open Fences Where flow of breezes la needed to keep a yard cool, then think in terms of a fence with open slats in it., Still enough of a farrier to stop dogs and animals. Western red cedar is the ideal* fence wood and it is low cost. Amazing Waal America’s amazing w c s t c rn states produce some of the finest softwood lumber in the world, in a dozen different species, each having its own special place in the construction industry.

* X WK* - L£SS HOUSEWORK BETTER APPETITES Since we InstalM GENERAL ELECTRIC CENTRAL HEATING & COOLING ASHBAUCHERS’ TIN SHOP Established 1915 114 N. Ist St. Decatur, Ind. Phone 3-2615

dead Grain The beauty of a beautiful piece of lumber comes from its incomparable grain which develops from the annual rings. When the log is sawn, the annual rings create a pattern of lovely beauty. Everybody One thing which makes western softwoods so popular with every weekend carpenter is the ease with which they can. be sawed, planed, chiseled, sanded and finished into beautiful objects.

Plumbing Contractors Offers The Knowhow, Equipment

When the plumbing contractor's truck pulls Into your drive, it brings with it a valuable combination of experience and equipment. In addition to thousands of dollars worth of tools and supplies for making installations and repairs in your home, it brings a highly skilled workman with many years of training. The Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Information Bureau says that the training and experience required of this craftsman are far more extensive than many people realize. In other words, “a pair of overalls and a wrench do not a plumber make” To be legally qualified to work on your plumbing, a man must complete a comprehensive five-year apprenticeship program. Behind this, many serve an additional five year porgram as "journeyman” to become licensed. To these skilled, professional workers, this represents a to al investment of ten years in cla sroom and on-the-job training The plumbing contractor is one who has completed this 10-

Plumbing Thingama jigs

Tile plumbing contractor got in urgent call. From the other cud of the line came the plea, "Come ever quick, the thing under my sink is leaking like crazy." The contractor rushed to the scene of “disaster” and entered the house carrying tools and parts to repair a kitchen sink. But he was immediately led to the bathroom to find water streaming from a supply valve beneatn the lavatory. Like many folks, the homeowner thought “a sink was a sink,” and consequently the contractor arrived with the wrong equipment and parts. But a “sink" isn’t always a sink, says the Plumbing - Heating - Cooling Information Bureau, who offers these definitions for homeowners: SINK—A fixture usually installed in a kitchen to provide water for ford preparation and washing of dishes. Not to be confused with lavatory. LAVATORY—A fixture usually located in bathroom or powder room for washing hands and face. WATER CLOSET Toilet. FITTING—Device used in connection with fixture, such as faucet, drain control and valve. FIXTURE — Any water-using product, such as sink, lavatory, water closet and tub. SUMP—A tank or pit to collect water seepage from a basement floor — equipped with pump to eject water collected. TRAP — The “extra bend" in drainage pipe beneath fixtures that retains enough water to prevent backup of sewer gas. VENT SYSTEM Piping to provide air circulation for the drainage system. Allows release of gas and protects traps against siphonage and back pressure. Trusses Fast If you want to save time and money when building your house then buy ready-made trusses. Most retail stores make these in several different spans. It helps you get a house roofed quickly to protect the other materials.

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year training, been licensed, and now operates his own business. He maintains an office, shop, inventory often averaging 10,000 items, trucks, trained staff, and often a- showroom to display the latest fixture models. From his place of business, he schedules his materials and craftsmen for use on new construction sites, remodeling jobs and repair work. He provides this, plus a standby crew to answer your call for emergency help. And the plumbing contractor is much more than Just a "pipefixer.” He's a bacteriologist, mettallurgist, ceramics specialist, home planner and decorator, mechanical and sanitary engineer, and businessman. All in all, he's the most highly skilled member of the building trades. Just as it's wise to be familiar with a good doctor and keep his phone number handy, it's a good idea to know a good plumbing contractor and know where to reach him. Your local plumbing contractor’s association will give you the names of those near you.

Scramble Best tribute to wood is the way people scramble to buy wood paneling and ornaments taken from centuries-old homes to use in their new and modern dwellings. > Too Exposed If your home entrance is too exposed to the street, why not install a simple wood screen to soften the approach? You sometimes need only an eight foot section seven feet tall to provide some privacy. Shade Screen A simple shade screen of twoinch slats spaced one inch apart and set on a lightweight frame of 2x4s and 4x4s makes an ideal garden rest area for summer time. Any lumber like Douglas fir will do the job.

Ths inferior of the new family room the Chiarovimos built to spacious and it appears even more so because of the vaulted ceiling. The ceiling was built with • Rooting material — 2.4.1 plywood IV.-iach tiuck — over supporting joists four feet apart.

Paint Accessories Your paint dealer can often provide specially treated paper paint buckets and wood paddles for stirring the paint, says the National Paint Varnish and Lacquer Association. Thinner, for thinning paint and cleaning brushes, should be the type recomm eded on the paint container label. Additional items, such as a drop cloth for protection of flowers and shrub® or floors, a duet brush, putty knife, scraper, wire brush, steel wool, medium grit sandpaper, and putty and caulking compounds may also be required. Someone has finally come up with a solution to those ugly black heel marks that inavriably appear on floors between regular cleanings. It’s a handy disposable Floor Mark Remover pad impregnated with tiny beads containing a liquid cleaner and polish. You simply press down on the pad to crush the beads, rub the saturated pad over the coiled floßr^surface, then use the other end of the pad to buff the spot back to its original shine. More, than 20 species of U.S. woods are used for structral plywood. Plywood is made in two types: Interior and Exterior. Only Exterior should be used out doors. More than 11 billion square feet of plywood will be used this year. The average new home contains about 2700 square feet of plywood. About half of the plywood produced annually is sanded, the rest is rough. * American Plywood Association is the new name for Douglas Fir plywood Association. Enough plywood was produced last year to roof New York City and still have enough left over for a stack 185 miles high.

Relief Needed On New Homes Sometimes smooth lined contemporary homes need a bit of decorative relief to change their J character and provide contrast to straight lines. One imaginative architect has achieved some of this departure from plain surfaces by adding a device below three joining windows on a wall which is just above a garage entrance. What the architect came up with is very simple. It is simply framed and looks like a picture frame with a blank picture. "Biis would be very easy to build and would cost virtually nothing because there would be enough leftover wood pieces after the home is completed to build a small frame decorative piece. There would actually be enough for several such exciting bits. . ■■MMMaw TOP THIS Usually it’s not necessary to remove old roofing before reroofing with heavyweight asphalt shingles. Putting the new roof right over the old one means savings in time and cost and elimi- . nates the risk of bad weather damage while the job is in progress.

BigGamsl Western softwoods range from the rugged Douglas fir, the nation’s prime structural lumber, to the dainty, delicately grained Ponderosa and sugar pines which have innumerable uses in construction finishing. Privacy By using a louvered fence of and of the western softwoods, you can have privacy, yet can get good air circulation. Southern Pine plywood was made commercially for the first time this year.

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Q. We just bought a house which has yellow mineral fiber Biding. Personally, I do not like yellow and would like to re-paint it a different color. Are there problems in painting mineral fiber? A. No problem: Mineral fiber is extremely stable in comparison to other siding materials, and is easily painted. Use a brand-name masonry paint: this can be either a solvent-thinned paint, a latexbase paint or an oil-base masonry ’paint. Paint when the siding is dry for best results. The paint job should last many years. Q. How do you remove a greenish film from copper pipes?

Useful Workshop Ideas By Will Ainsworth, Technical Consultant 1 , MM Campfire Tripod ’Jk'xs’sHevr-iRON ♦ When collapsed, this pipe tri- ik'noLts spaced \ tk* pod for campfire cooking takes _ 4 ® • I | very little space in a car trunk, spreader m. ,\O Cu It is set up quickly by inserting chains J A l\ 7| •» the legs into noles in the retain- 11 \ . ing disk. Three lengths of welded L 6T y 11 \ A chain hanging from the disk hold /zS&kJs* _/‘rY the soup pot where the chain at- /I i NUTS - A opuwo. taches to rings or eyebolts spaced U / I equidistantly. Three other # JJL-1 If eyebolts lengths of the same chain are at- # f \ tached with eyebolts to the legs / 15 to 18 in. below the disk. These 7 • A limit leg spread and provide ri- A<***^ cs * a gidity. x4fx«alwpipb S" i WELDED r Hanging Charcoal Grill , *ii chain V Suspended with welded chain ,X | ! I from overhead supports, this s-hooks to I /-ft / / charcoal grill for porch or patio our of way I //Al) I It i s always at hand. It is tucked • I kOjF 1 If up out of the way with S-hooks I ' t J when not in use. It consists of a .rectangular flat-iron frame of spill- which the ends are overlapped - and riveted together. Eyebolts C pam JA ~ -- ——7 steel near the corners engage the V— z chain. Steel rods with threaded MEfAu^-' —ends are installed crosswise /iat the center to hold a charcoal < P an B b° ut 12 by 18 in. in size. w Z/zo" “Counter space” is provided at v*. 40'-. each end by galvanized sheet —■ I 1— ’I 'y,' ‘lt .Ono metal bolted to the frame. The C~4' / I 4«xi t flat iROM gheet meUl . g bgnt upward and /•® «-/ V !_l© is doubled here to support the T — t — u grill which may be an old refrigbent DOUBLE.. bolted eyebolt* erator or oven shelf. IS HEATING YOUR PROBLEM? -IF SOHAUGK PLUMBING & HEATING Decatur, Ind. Phone 3-3316 * ED F F ESTIMATES rn e c giveni Full Line of HEATING! GAS - OIL - ELEOTRIO - OOAL WARM AIR - HOT WATER - ELEGTRIO RASEROARO and CEILING CARLE. FULL HOUSE INSULATION! “You're Paying For Insulation - So Why Not Nave It?”

Long Lite To insure long life of yard structures, be sure that any wood in contact with the ground is preservatlvely treated. This is especially true in patios where treated Douglas fir will outlast any other wood. Each of the thousands of perforations in an acoustical ceiling acts as a tiny noise trap, absorbing sound waves and preventing them from bouncing around the room. This keeps the sound level in a room from building up to an uncomfortable level. Natural effects in interior finishing materials are expected to be extremely popular in 1964. In addition to rustic drapery and upholstery fabrics, textured surfaces are available in the latest effects in resilient flooring and acoustical ceiling tiles. Box beams are hollow structural members with lumber flanges and plywood webs.

A. Oxidation causes this unsightly green deposit. Try washing the pipes with ammonia. • • • Q. How do you remove efflorescence from brick? A. The blotchy, white patches' are caused by alkaline salts coming to the surface of the walls. Use a wire brush and wash surface with a solution of one part muriatic acid to ten parts of water. Use fresh water to rinse solution from brick after two minutes. Take care to protect eyes, skin and clothing from this strong solution. Use rubber gloves as an extra precaution.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1964

Vapor Barner Stops Blisters Paint blisters and peeling paint are not the fault of the wood siding. Generally, they are caused by poor design of the walls. For best results, points out the West Coast Lumbermen’s Association, a properly installed viper barrier will protect exterior walls and paint from moisture originating with the borne. Such barriers should be carefully applied to provide a complete envelope, preventing moisture from entering enclosed wall spaces where condensation might occur. The principle of vapor protection, the lumbermen point out, is to make the warm side of the walll as vapor -tight as possible, and the cold side permeable enough to permit passage of moisture vapor to the outside. Where, then, do you place the vapor barrier of sheet metals, metal foils or asphalt laminated papers? You place it just inside the interior wall along the inside stud line. A cross section of the ideal wall of a home would look like this, reading from the inside out: First your interior wall, then the vapor barrier, next the studs and between the studs insulating material, then wood sheathing, next a sheathing paper and finally your wood siding. The entire stud space from floor to ceiling should be covered in this manner. The siding of course, can be in any pattern or style to suit the home owners’ tastes, and it may be in any of the long lasting and durable woods such as western red Cedar or Douglas fir, by far the two most widely used in tohe country. If this system of design and use of vapor barriers is closely followed, die lumberman believe that paint blistering will be eliminated. Cover Chips If your masonry patio is becoming chipped and broken, you can cover it with a wooden deck. Just nail ordinary Douglas fir 2x4s to the masonry, then nail your deck boards to the furring pieces. Generally 2x4s are ideal for this deck, and they can be arranged in many interesting patterns like herringbone, checkerboard, diagonal, or in diamond shape. ITS ALL OVER TOWN Y O „ h W READYMIX CONCRETE Will be found all over town . . . <. Basements .... Walks . . . Foundations . . Buildings . . Drives . . . Perches. TELL YOUR CONTRACTOR YOU WANT READYMIXED CONCRETE FROM YOST GRAVEL READYMIX, INC. ■L It 1, DECATUR Phone 3-3114