Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1947 — Page 8

and the replies:

Dear Mr, Cobb: I have been renting your column in Fix It Yourself every day in ‘The Times and I wonder if you could help me a little.

1 have inlaid linoleum in my

and also had linoleum varnish on twice and I have scrubbed it with | soap and water and cleaned with turpentine and several otlier things) the stove pipes in your house. it all off so I could do something else to it. 't seem to have any juck. As it is, I efther have to wash it every ‘day or keep papers here

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and there, which is a nuisance. I would appreciate any advice you could give me~Mrs. Harry Robinson, 1130 S. Grant st.

Dear Mrs. Robinson: In regard to the linoleum on your kitchen floor, you can either varnish it or paint it. Use either a good quality floor paint or a good floor varnish. The type of finish used on floors is especially made to withstand the hard use it gets and other kinds of paints and varnishes won't hold up. for very long.

Mr. Cobb: In reading The Times, I'm in

some help in a very serious problem we've run ifito. We built a cement block house, plastered against the blocks on the inside.

Hubbard { Cobb, The Times Hahdy Man, tears up some household problems in Tnudianapolis Here are the queries,

Fix It Yourself—

Of the Home and Its

Fixtures

By HUBBARD COBB Your Handyman

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Does your fire insurance agent suffer from loss of appetite, nagging headaches and jittery nerves? Why not give him & break by taking a

kitchen. It’s been washed so much]

Remove all the dirt off the linoleum before painting or varnishing. A cloth with a little benzine will be fine for this cleaning job but be sure that there is no open flame such as a pilot light on a gas stove that might possibly ignite the benzine. Keep all the kitchen windows open to provide a free circulation of air. A good coat of wax over the finish will preserve it considerably. Don't use large quantities of water on finoleum as it: will get under the material and cause it to pull away from the floor.

hopes you might be able to give us|

| generally requires that the sections|put on right. The metal surface |

‘| checking over the condition of the{loose paint and rust.

load off his mind? The first day the heat is off get to work cleaning and inspecting

A stove pipe that is all rusted out and full of soot is an A-1 fire hazard. Now there are several ways of cleaning the soot out, one is by the use of chemicals and the other Z is by hand. When Not in Use

Before using chemical cleaners| yf yoy are the kind of person who find out how it removes the soot. plans his life carefully you don't If it is the kind that works by let- Wait until the coldest day of the! ting the soot be burned out by a year to run. around turning off

(ra radiators: so you can paint them— fire in the stove or furnace you [you do this job in the spring or

might prefer to the job by hand | summer. which is the surest, safest and| If the paint on a radiator is going dirtiest method. {to get through the winter without

| . i ’ Cleaning stove pipes by” hand | chipping and scaling it's got to be

Paint Those Radiators

of pipe be disassembled and this should be cleaned down with steel! gives you a swell opportunity for|wool and a wire brush to remove | Wipe the pipe. Don't put broken or rusted surface down with benzine to re-

soldering iron, put a thin film of

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of holes. You bought ‘em and you've got a right to put holes in them if you want, Were just here to tell you how to patch up those holes provided .you want to.

Start out with a piece of metal the same as the material to be patched and about a quarter of an inch larger than the hole. Clean the dirt from both metal surfaces and apply flux a round the hole and one side of the patch. Now with a properly “tinned” solder around the hole and on the fluxed side of the patch. Put the patch down over the hole so that the two sdldered surfaces are together. Hold the patch securely in

sections back. Stove pipe isn't that move any grease. expensive, The first coat should be a good | 'metal primer and after that you can use any good flat wall paint thinned |

place with a piece of iron and apply heat to the patch with the soldering iron. Eventually the * solder

on the

turned black.

We've got the outside plastered and bondexed but. the house sweats. It sweats to such extent that its gotten our base board moulded and}

Our windows did the same thing

{with one-half pint of linseed oil to patch and around the hole will |the quart so that it won't be so melt and run together. Remove tHe

lapt to crack when the heat is on. |soldering iron but keep pressure on

until we got storm windows, but they seem to be all right now. If there is any information or suggestions you might offer we would be more than grateful, H. D. McCLAIN, 2529 S. Pennsylvania,

Dear Mr. McClain: The moisture that collects on a the inside of the walls in your home is caused by condensation. Air contains a certain amount of water vapor — the amount depending on the temperature of the air. When the warm air comes in contact with the cold wall some of this avater vapor remains on the wall in the form of moisture. There are two ways to prevent excessive moisture in the home. One way would be to warm up the inside of the wall so that its temperature would be near that of the

by insulation or by providing a free | circulation of warm air in between

the inner and outer wall.

«. The other method of preventing condensation would be to remove all the water vapor in the alr. It would pe impossible as well as unhealthy to remove all water vapor, but the amount can be cut down considerably.

Provide a free circulation of air) throughout the house. Do not let wash hang inside the house or in the basement. Keep the steam from bathrooms and kitchens from mixing with the air in the rest of the house. |

Leave the chimney open to ald!

the soot. Be sure to check the opening in the chimney that the pipe fits into and be sure that no masonry has fallen away leaving a gap for wandering sparks to get out. |

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