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

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PAGE 8 Fixit Yourself—

Cutting Down on Wood May Cause You

To Have a Bunch of Rattles Next Winter

By HUBBARD COBB, Your Handy Man From the way things have started out, it looks as though we may be in for another damp summer, If our weather prediction is no worse than anyone else's, you can count on a lot of recalcitrant drawers, doors |

and window sashes. It seems that when a piece of wood starts to absorb moisture it does a little swelling. This is fine for the bottom of a boat, but it's not so good for the woodwork dbout the house. Now before you get mad and start planing away .~ . d {a..garden roller until it's packed Wood iy =n tort Wo make hing sn You may have to do a little come a dry spell the wood will dry filling in here and there. Cut the] out and Brink It you take Off too sides down as straight as Posatble. | much wood when t's moist. you'll {After you've done all this put down have a lot of rattling window sashes, doors arid drawers when they all dry out, Your best bet is to try to keep the woodwork from getting too damp inside, ana the best thing for this is a coat of paint on all four sides. Giving the house a good air-

deep and rake it so it's nice and level. Now you want to stop and

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a bed of sand about two inches Of trouble, And right at this point

ing out on a hot day, or days, will to a lot towards getting the wood back to its original size If you feel that you have to take off some of the wood, remove just enough to get things moving and then use wax or soap along the edges to lubricate things a bit

Here's One Way to Make A Firm Garden. Path

We do a lot of thinking about bricks, but so far we haven't been able to figure out how to explain bricklaying in 200 words. As a substitute - we offer a few suggestions on dry bricklaying

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Make the design as tricky das you want, but just be sure that you use the same design for the whole path and don't keep changing around. This can get very confusing. The bricks should be placed as| close together as possible. Use a|

which is swell for garden paths and borders around flower beds, One nice way of making a garden path is to dig down about four inches and then roll the earth

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straight edge of some sort, so that | you will get each layer-of bricks | moderately straight and even. After | the bricks are laid, you pour sand | with ‘over them and sweep it around so

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that it fills In the cracks between | them. A. little sprinkling with a | garden hose will pack the sand so | it's nice and firm. i

Some of Those Building Codes Are Strict

Okey, you own the land and if you want to build a 10 story house out of old orange crates that's your business. Well-maybe. But, unfortunately, the chances are that before you get very far the local

If you have a home repair oblem. write a letter to . Me, Cobb care The Indianapolis Times. If your ques. tion is of general interest, an answer to it will appeer in a forthcoming column on The Times Home Page.

Now's the Time to Get That Furnace Fixed

| We hate to spoil anybody's vaca- | tion but winter is drawing near. This | means that the furnace will go on, {and we dimly recall several of our readers being a little disappointed in the performance of their furnace during the past season. Well, if you and your furnace are not on speaking terms, now is the time to get things worked out and not sometim next January, y

The people who make heating equipment have been busy as beavers turning out all sorts of new con-

authorities will be breathing down your neck, and you'll be in all sorts

you'll begin to find out about build ing codes, The purpose of these codes, which are local ordinances and will vary in each community, is to insure that the minimum building standards are observed and that the bullding won't bringrdown all the surrounding property value. The codes protect you from your neighbor, and your neighbor from you, And sometimes both the neighbor and the codes get to be a pain in the neck.

Some. of “these codes are pretty

traptions designed to simplify vour winter life. But don’t get the idea! that you have to rip out the old! system and install a new “Super Atomic Bpace Heater” just because an upstairs closet wasn't always comfortable during zero weather, You'd be surprised how just a few changes in the right place will pep up any system whether it be warm air, bot water or steam. If your old system is just glving a little trouble in places, why not get in a heating engineer or a representative from the outfit that made the plant? He should be able to give you a few pointers on how you can get more heat for less money and less work. Ag. our contribution, well run (some dope one of these days on how To good insulation never hurt house.

ing permit before you can even look at a nail. Other communities don’t give “a hoot, what you do, 80 long as you don't make a nuisance out of yourself. Anyway, if you feel the urge to put up a garage or a playhouse for the kiddies, check with the boys down at city hall befora you start work. They may have something to say about how the work must be done and with what materials. It may even cost you a few bucks to get a license, too.

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| , THE INDIANAPOLIS TIES _ er ‘Bothered With Stubborn Doors, Window Sashes Or Drawers? Spare That Plane, A Good Coat Of Paint And Airing Out The House Will Cut Down On Dampness

Job of installation and about the only trouble he has encountered to date is that the flush valve won't flush the toilet bowl. . This 1s just a hard way of saying that a flush valve won't work In every case. The service pipe for the average home is around one inch in

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composition flooring designed to be Tout down over damp concrete, These will not rot out as will linoleum. Ans. For the benefit of those who came in late, copper drip stains from screens and gutters can Je removed from painted surfaces by scrubbing with a solution made of % cup of trisodium phosphate to a quart of water. Rinse this off with plenty of fresh water as trisodium is tough on paint,

. Ang. When you want to wash stalled, get larger service pipes putidown a varnished surface, use a in or you'll probably end up in Mr. damp cloth with a little mild soap, B. B. C's private boat, but don’t flood the surface or use a Another point about these flush gritty or strong cleaning powder. valves is that they will stick or suf-| Ans. If a faucet continues to leak fer from mechanical disorders like|after the washer has been replaced, any other piece of equipment. The|check the valve seat for roughness. valve is not dificult to fix, but{This can be ground down smooth you've got to know what you're do-|with a valve seat grinder that won't ing and the best place to get briefed |cost much at either your hardware is at the manufacturer's or—the sec-|op plumbing store. ond best—the guy who sold you the

diameter and a flush valve must get|air and then the dirt absorbs the|suard announced yesterday. (a considerably larger

The gigantic frozen mass is re-

Ans, There are several kinds of | Ported to be some 270 miles south-

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