Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1947 — Page 8

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Plastic Paint Leaves Rough Walls Smooth With Attractive Color Designs; Tips Given On How to Build Hotbeds to Beat High Cost of Living

“|/bowl and clean off the old putty; If possible, locate the door in the

Test Runs Urged to Achieve Better Results; ‘Earth Slants Needed-for Growing ef Orchids

By HUBBARD COBB, Your Handy Man Not so long ago we mentioned plastic paints very casually in connection with smoothing down rough walls. Well, since then we've had a flock of inquiries about this kind of paint so here are a few more ‘grains of knowledge about it, . 4 Plastic paint, in general, is a material that can be applied to a surface with a brush and then worked into various designs and textures . Yo I me——————— . ee i werk he VG ath or (hs Jo, You ca paint after it has been put on. ‘build the hot bed out of wood or Some plastic paints are colored, | comerete. Concrete should be set others can have color added to them | below the frost line, and some can be painted over after| You can save a lot of time and they are dry. We find plastic paints | : in a powder form that are thinned with water and others with a white lead base. Each type has advantages and disadvantages Naturally there are a lot of peo- | ple making this kind of paint. Your] hardware or paint store should have one or maybe several brands. Just be sure that the particular brand

w v money by building the hot bed so that a basement window opens into It. The pitch here is such that the

{warm air from the basement will {keep “the little flowers nice and jwarm during the winter. If the basement Isn't that warm you ean heat the bed with a hot water line from the boiler. Another angle iis to heat it with electric light bulbs

can be applied to any surface in-|temperature ls kept. just right , One thing to remember is that

been properly prepared, PLE HOT hed TURE be RITE to If you've never worked with this| keep out those cold breezes

material it's a very sound idea to| : . make a few test runs until you sat Useful Gadgets

the knack of achieving the effect Improve Home Life you want, . . We were flat broke last Saturday How fo Build a so we spent the evening munching

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small child, and window shopping One way to beat the rising cost of ving is to grow your own orchids All you'll need is a hot house. If you don't like orchids or can’t afford to build a hot house, here are some tips on hot beds. Hot beds should slant downward | toward the south. ~This-not only abet lows the water to drain off but lets in lots of sunlight. The north side of the het bed should be sheltered by a wall or something that resembles a wall. Here are a few gadgets that caught The standard size sash for a bed our eye {= 3 by 6. These cost money but are | A contraption that fits over base better than trying to convert a [plugs on the wall so that baby can't

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commit suicide by removing the {wall plug... Another device that looked interesting was a special | wall plug that lights up when it is plugged in. The idea is that the | [light will remind you not to go off |

and leave the toaster or iron burn- aged, (later on, If the frame is not per-| ing “up electricity or maybe the When the bowl goes back on|f°Ct You can get the door jambs house, you'll need about three pounds of |5duare with blocks and a couple

I Then we ran into an insulating material for keeping cold. water pipes from sweating. The insula-| tion comes in strips and you just | wind it around the pipes. It has an! ladhesive on the back s0 you don't {have to make a mess putting the {stuff on, If you happen to live in a neighhorhood full of Peeping Toms you might be interested in some special | paper-that is treated so that it can be stuck to window glass and give the appearance, as well as the

gee through the stufl, not even you. For damp clpsets you can get a | little package containing a chemi- | cal that will absorb the moisture | out of the air, When the chemical! {gets saturated you dry it out in a {warm oven and use it over again. ~Beiehce 18 Certainly & Wonderful thing

Removing Toilet Bowl Isn't an Easy Task

Removing a toilet bowl isn’t] something you do just to kill time. | Like starting a war, you should | have a good reason, like putting] down a new floor or clearing a bad | stoppage. Anyway, if it has to be| done and there fsn't a plumber (handy, here's how you go about it. | Get all the water out of the bowl | {and disconnect it from the flush] |tank, The bowl is held to the floor | (with: bolts ‘and nuts and the nuts) {may be covered with porcelain caps. These are held on with putty so tap them gently with something | {soft and they'll come loose. Re-| move the nuts. and then jar the {bowl slightly with the hands to! break the putty seal between the | bowl and the pipe. Remove the|

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{from the bowl and pipe. Cover up{wall so you can use one length of {the pipe so that nothing will fall}wall studding as a side of the frame, {down into it. Some bowls shave a|Measure off the area to bn cut out {gasket instead of putty and this{allowing additional width: so that the opeping can be framed with double pleces of 2x4's on, each side and one across the top. Use a cold chisel to cut through the plaster and then a key hole saw for the wood laths. You'll need | hand saw for cutting out the |studding but watch out for nails for you'll ruin the saw. Once the opening has been made the stud{ding goes up and this must be

should be replaced if worn or dam- [Plumb or youll run into trofible

PRtLY put on its base, Bos that the | °f these should be located so that the hinge screws will strike them

floor is clean and set the bowl down | and gef it level. Tighten up the and not just thin air. nuts and remove the excess putty. | a Be careful when moving oe bowl REMOVE All Decay not to break or chip it. Be very Before Fixing Tree sure that. the bowl is sealed tightly | r to the pipe or youll have a leak! on your hands,

Buying «Door Easier Than Building One

One of the most practical and filled. efficient ways of going through a

ghost, is by means of a door, there isn't one handy, a door—not 1 ' | fungus fr . a ghost, then you go to work and| Rgus rom Sowing build one. {

Please don't start hacking AWaY| ihe wood cells and this is not good

at the wall until you've got a door | gp; over the - and made the proper measure-| ihe edge of the bark and sap

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[tree either the decay goes or the| tree goes. The first. thing to do 1s| be suré that it does not stick out|

¢ut out all the decay and when we | 50 far as to prevent the tree from say “all” we mean all. This business |8T°%Ing in around it. is just the same as getting a tooth |

After the cavity is clean the in-| be careful of cigarets and matches effect, of frosted glass. No une can wall, unless you happen to be a!gde should be coated” with cresote| when you walk or drive through If) or some other solution to keep any|the woods.

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This will act as an expansion joint and keep the concrete filling from cracking. | The concrete mix for a shallow cavity can be one part cement to

three parts sand. It should be | plastic and rather stiff. If the cavity is over six inches wide, use| wire reinforcements. patch in six-inch sections with a piece of tar” paper as a divider between each section, The tar paper

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Lighter Fluid Cause of Blaze '

A blind man ‘set fire to his home late. yesterday without Tealizing it. Don Potter, 52, of 421 Congress ave, told firemen he had filled a cigaret lighter with fluid, spilling some of the fluid on his forearm. When he tested the lighter, he said, the fluid on his arm ignited, burning him and he flung the lighter away. A short time later neighbors notified Mr. Potter his house was ablaze. The lighter, still burning, apparently had lagded on a bed, setting it afire. Mr. Potter was treated for burns by Fire Rescue Squad 14.

{should not come out to the front | edge but just a little under so it| won't show. Reund out the filling | to match the curve of the tree and|

Saving one tree is a lot of work. |Saving a lot of them is easy—just

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