Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1947 — Page 10

ye Be Taken Out of Floors by Using A Screw Jack and Good Size Timbers

By HUBBARD COBB, Your Handy Man * You may wear the pants in your family but if the interior decorating |

. ing old wallpaper, far instance.

from one human being.

bug ever bites your wife you'd better prepare to do a little work—remov-

This charming pastime is accomplished by combining warm water, putty knife, large brush and the muscular energy that can be squeezed |

1 ferent . kinds, spar ‘varnish for outs put a vertical timber between the side use; another for floors and jack and the horizontal four : by still others for Jntepter work. four.

Outdoor Fireplace

*/ls Handy in Summer Are you a failure in business? Do! 'people and animals naturally hate! iyou? Do you want to gain weight? |

' Start off by wetting down the entire wall, then’ remove the paper with the putty knife by yorking down in vertical strips. A handful of washing soda added | to a gallon of water will speed things up a little but be careful to keep this solution off any painted - woodwork. Don't’ work too hard with the putty knife or you'll find yourself taking out hunks of plaster and that will really mess things

If you have a home re"pair problem, write a letter to Mr. Cobb, care The In- || . dianapolis Times. If your question is of general in. terest an answer to it will appear in a forthcoming column on The Times Home Page.

‘Well, friend, build yourself an outdoor fireplace and win health, | ‘money and friends by giving wel 'steak parties during the' summer.

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Pape Isn't H ‘the Easiest Job in the World, but Warm Water, Knife and Plenty of Muscle Work Will Do the Trick =~

find him because he can't stand the wide open spaces. v Termites will enter 'a building at any point where the woodwork

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or where there is a break or crack in the masonry."

| Now screw the fack up until the | floor is level. Be careful not to turn the jack too far or you may crack |. ‘the plaster walls in the room above. {When the floor is level, measure the {distance from the floor to the hori{zontal four by four and cut a post

| , | to fit.

lin draw poker are 694 to 1. On the a good varnish job is in direct pro-| portion to how much care you take in applying it Varnish can only be applied to a surface that is smooth as silk, dry as & bone and twice as clean as as Dutch kitchen. Varnish, in fact, ; is so allergic’ to moisture that you If you happen to run Inlo a Cas® cant work with it outside in the where there are several layers of early morning or late afternoon. wallpaper, each layer will have 10 The dew, you know. You can't come off separately. even ‘use it indoors if the’ atmos- - If youre In luck you will ind that phere is too humid. the paper has a coat of varnish over

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Takes a Lot of Care

According to Hoyle, your chances | : af getting » full house on the deal Never varnish on a hot day and p——— JON't bother to try on cold days

LARGE COMFORTABLE leither. Wait for a clear cool day : i t breeze. LOUNGE CHAIR With @ slight breese

| Use Full Brush $29.50 Flow varnish‘ onto the surface | : {with a full brush. If a second coat! Furn. Ce. 1113 Shelby is needed, be sure the first is sand'led down before the second goes on.

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| Take one turn on the jack and | . | slip the post under the horizontal Now we can't give you full in. brace making certain that the post struction for doing this job in the Sits Sven 2 ne floor. Remove lallotted space, but we can say that the jac oa Ye Himbers Joa ind practicall jone can do the work | USing W ie one ver even ‘if hog bend De the dif-' should furnish enough support un-| ference between concrete and mortar,

that case—two posts will be nee- | Little Is Needed SEALY. mn All you need for. a fireplace is cement, sand, water and rocks. You can get a bag of cement for under a Giff Repair Bill dollar. Eight bits can get you a : : pile of clean sand. Rocks are as Houses are made to live in and free as the air and you can always not to provide a bunch of insects {borrow some water. {with their three squares a day. | If you have an inferiority com-|mermites, according to those who plex you can buy the insides. for: Ik th hat wood is alo an outdoor fireplace. These are now, think that w s about tops made of iron and all you have to|in flavor and theyll go to a lot of {do is build around them: with rocks! trouble and work to eat your hause | or bricks. A small child can do the! out from under you. | work—almost. But even without | these metal frames the job is not, oo tough for a beginner. So, ‘if the idea appeals to you, drop us a line and we'll furnish the necessary information. Of course, to furnish the steaks.

Termites Can Cause

Leave a family of termites alone] (termite families come big). and you'll end up with some pretty stiff repair bills or maybe something you have worse. Briefly, termites are no friend of man.

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Fixing Sagging Floor Isn't Hard Job

If you happen to be a family of weight lifters, you can expect your {floors to sag. Then again, some {floors will sag just to be cussed. If it's a first floor with a basement underneath, fixing the sag is not a very tough job. You need some good size timbers, four by four inch are fine, and a screw jack. Start out by putting one timber up crosswise underneath {the floor joists at the point of the sag. Put a piece of timber on the | _ floor, place the jack on it and then |

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Blow Torch Easiest Way

To Remove Paint No doubt about it, the worst part | ‘of any paint job is getting the wood

less you have a very wide sag. In| surface ready for the new paint.| Recruiting is held prior to the

Removing the old paint with a {scraper or-sandpaper is dull, tedi{ous work. A liquid remover is fine

[for small jobs but when it comes

to doing an entire outside wall this gets a little expensive. So, for big | jobs grab a gasoline blow torch. and’ burn the paiut off.

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