Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1946 — Page 8

HELPFUL NEIGHBOR Unsightly Woodwork ls Refinished;| | You Can Quiet Down Squeaky Floors

Several Times readers have written us about how they

improved or remodeled their

“Your Helpful Neighbor's Hints.”

» ». ¥ UNSIGHTLY WOODWORK... one reader discovered good wood under old finish and improved the appearance of his home “100 per cent” Here is his letter: . # » “1 was overjoyed a couple months ago when I could move my family into a five-room cottage. Anything ed at the time. MOK poet, settled down, placed our furniture and decorated the place as well as we could, my wife began to grumble about "how “awful” the rooms looked. Even washed the doors and. baseboards were & dirty sort of a color. Whoever occupied the place before us certainly ruined a Iot of good wood-~ work. 4 : . . r «1 PEELED some paint off one of the doors and found they were

made of good hardwood stock. Evidently made before the wood shortage.

“My wife was convinced that we should refinish all the doors and woodwork. “I applied a good paint remover to the finish with a brush, I let the remover soften the paint and then I scraped it off. I did the doors in sections. ~ - » THE PARTICLES and bits that were left over I removed with steel wool. The varnished surfaces underneath had to be treated in a similar fashion. It was hard work but after a good sanding with a fine sandpaper I had some good Joking woodwork. sh “The major portion of the sanding was done by my wife during the day. She deserves a lot of credit because it is hard work but very necessary to the final job. . - . “WE WORKED about a month, evenings and off days. Several cracks-were filled and stained. The bedroom doors we bleached with a solution of oxalic acid. Then we washed the surface thoroughly and applied a clear coat of varnish followed by wax. We had beautiful doors. “The living and dining room doors we stained with a light stain and applied a clear varnish. 3 J ” ” “THE KITCHEN woodwork was repainted with a light coat of

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homes. We pass on to you

easy now that the woodwork is in shape.” y ” » SQUEAKY FLOORS , . . unnoticed until a visit to a neighbor and then this man went to work to have a’ quiet home. - . ~ “The floors in my home squeaked. I lived in the place so ng that I never noticed it. Neither did my wife—at least she didn't say anything until we visited some friends of ours. “While we played cards their kids kept running around the living room on the squeaky floors until they drove me to distraction. When we got home I mentioned the fact to my wife who immediately jumped me about my own floors. In fact, we got into an argument about fit. . w ~ I AGREED to fix the squeaks, I surprised even myself how easily such a thing can be done to make a home a lot more pleasant. “The squeak ran the entire length of two rooms where we do most of our walking—the front room through the dining rodm to the kitchen. After a lot of investigation, walking, and listening I found out it was the subfloor. The top floor which is of good hardwood stock and tight had no squeaks. ef. “I TOOK and made somé hardwood cleats from an oak board I had in the basement. The cleats | were about an inch square, I {screwed the cleat into the joist flush up against the subfloor. “Then I took some three-inch screws and drilled through the cleat for the screw. The screw went through the cleat, the subfloor and about halfway through the hardwood top floor. This pulled the squeaky subfloor tight with the hardwood floor above and the cleat below.” ~ » ” The Times will welcome letters which it can publish showing how Indianapolis homemakers are improving and brightening up their homes. :

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A booklet outlining minimum requirements for properties contain: ing three or more dwelling units

the house. The baseboards were| financing are available at the 'In-

done to- harmonize with each room.

dianapolis Federal Housing Admini-

“Without repapering or repaint-|stration office, R. Earl Peters, diing the wall surfaces we had im-|rector, said today. 3

proved the appearance of our home days| pertaining to e

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apartment is, Mrs. Slaughter says, “in pretty good living condition” at 2440 N. Meridian st. Mrs. Hazel Slaughter, former - 1st lieutenant in the army with five months service in the Philippines, has a few more idead how she can prefty up her apartment even though the 10 pieces of furniture now in use have come from attics, auctions ‘and what hubby and wife could find between their two families, : Eye for Economy Attie furniture and auction pleces are seldom in condition to move into a living room without a little work. : Mr. Slaughter, now a major in {sociology at Butler university knows that’ better than anyone. He did the heavy work between classes and tdriving 35 miles from Wilkinson to Butler every day. “I'm glad we got a place to live in. Indianapolis. - J was getting tired of driving 70 miles every day go to school. Besides that, now

: ; lan eye for economy—they estimate | ! Safle. 3 alto Sacludes grovisions Of | that the ten pieces of furniture | Systems,’ generators, compressors,

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Work Took 2 Weeks Four, chairs. and a rocker were {bought at an auction sale and given the Slaughter treatment. The bed, dressing table, desk, lamp table dnd bedroom chair have all been ‘uncovered 'in what they call their “bargain attics.” " The 25-year-old former corporal gave the bed and dressing table

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A former corporal and an army nuree—huwsband and wife now— have this housing situation beat now. Looking ahead to the time when they cowld move here from Wilkinson, Mr. and Mrs, John Slaughter planned ahead with their

And it was well that they did because today their three-room |

The fruits of their labor . . . Mr. and Mrs. John Slaughter, both veterans, enjoy a pleasant evening in their new apartment furnished with 10 pieces of repainted and remodeled furniture at a cost of $12.

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oldtimers, and cut the mirror off the dresser. The rocker, desk, lamp table, and bedroom chair were stained and varnished. ? The handy couple (Mrs. Slaughter made the drapes for the apart. ment on the side), did all the work in the family garage in Wilkinson. The actual work, not eounting the search through attics, took them two weeks.

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Being constructed on a permanent site at 5742 N. Oxford st. the house was exhibited at the home show held last May. When the show closed, the model house was disassembled and moved to the permanent

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