Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1947 — Page 19

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Insulating Your Heating Plant Is ‘Child's s Play’ and It Will Save You Money; © Cricket (Not the Game) Allows the Water to Drain in Away 8

You Don't Have fo Be An Artist fo Stencil A Border on the Walls of a Room

By HUBBARD COBB, Your Handyman There are a lot of sound reasons for insulating a heating plant, It will save you money, it helps conserve the nation's coal and oil, ‘and it| helps people who happen to own concerns that make insulating material. Insulating a warmrair furnace is child's play but we'll tell you about it anyway. Youll need a few rolls of corrugated asbestos paper, some asbestos cement (mix it with water and it's ready for use) and a few feet of wire. | The big heat loss on a warm-air furnace are the metal ducts or pipes

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.eager. Give them about three lay-| ‘ers of asbestos paper and have the Joints between sections of paper] overlap. Fasten the paper to the pipes by wrapping the wire around about every 18 inches or so. |

happens to gome through the slope of a roof. The pi of the cricket is to allow water to drain away from the back of the chimney just as fast as is possible. The longer the water hangs around the. better are its chances of finding an opening in the roof, especially at the point]

of work on the furnace proper. Put] .on about three layers and don't forget to cut openings around the ‘furnace doors. Use plenty of wire, 80 that the paper will stay put.! When it comes to the sloping por-{ tions of the furnace, asbestos ce-| ment will do fine. Put on a layer] about: one inch thick. The top of the furnace can be] covered with a couple of circular pieces of asbestos paper.

Cricks Allows Water : those sections of the country wheré

To Drain From Chimney snow falls because the snow will Now this item could he about a pile up around the chimney and very dull game they play in Eng-ithen when it melts the water backs land or it could be about a small up- (so help us) ‘and will flow un-| insect that sits by the hearth after der the shingles and hence down. it has finished chewing up things, This condition is called a leaky but it’s not. The particular cricket roof and is to be avoided. A cricket can be made out of wood covered with roofing paper or it can be made of copper or

like affair that should sit in back of a chimney when said chimney

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some other non-rusting metal. Needles to say, the seams between the cricket, roof and chimney must | be watertight.

Attach - Wall Stencils , With Masking Tape

You can’t begin to realize what] 'a world of difference stenciling al border on the walls of a room will]

make (to the room) until you've|

tried it. After that you may wish

{you had left things alone, but that

is something else again. A+good paint store can supply

you with stencils in many different,

{designs, If you are talented, you {can even cut your own-stencils of In any case you'll need a

n tubes and are thinned with tur-|

| ene Don't thin the colors too door and the threshold. Replacing! would. The plaster should be set Squeaking and getting stiff,

{much as they will run, and use {only turpentine, not oil.

It is a sound idea to attach the & thin strip of wood at a 45 de- ween the plaster and the cinders cracked and is falling out, take it . stencil to the wall with masking 8ree angle to the outside bottom will help prevent condensation: on| === :

tape. This will keep it from mov{ing and leave you with both hands free. A stencil brush not only looks difom from a regular brush, but it is used differently. Put some color |

A cricket is most important in on the brush (not too much), hold Keep Windows Closed |

the. brush at right angles to the wall and then jab the stencil with| the brush as if you were mad at it. Just don't get too mad. One last little item, and this is wipe the back side of the stencil

clean before you put it on another |sectipn of the wall.

Hang Front Doors

On Three Hinges

A front door is more than just

a place to hang an expensive knocker. It keeps out the weather and your neighbors and in con-

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sideration of this you should treat many erent brands of gadgets t right. {for keeping casement windows open As front doors are generally/and closed. {heavier than those used inside a/ Most of them are adjustable so! (house, they should be hung on [that the window can be secured in| (any position desired. You can get (them for windows “hinged at the top, bottom or at the side. A hard-| ware store should be able to supply | you with them. There is' a laay out in Rhode {Island mad ad a hatter because! | water leaks out around the drain]

| |installed, someone forgot to use

[putty to make a tight joint between |three hinges rather than just two.| [the sink and the drain assembly. | will keep the door from sag-| We got a nice direct question {from a gentleman who wanted to

ne. thing you want ‘to do is| {make sure that the door fis Kept &

{ture is very likely to get into the| | wood along the bottom edge and if the door is made with glued | Joints—goodbye door, Moisture will| also warp a door out of shape. The door should be finished with an! | exterior paint or spar varnish that| won't be bothered by, bad weather, What with people coming in and

| where the chimney and roof inter- stencil brush and some stencil col-|going out, the threshold is likely to| know if we thought a wall made of The same paper Will ‘do for & 10t| ect (meet, join of come together), OFS. The colors can be purchased|get worn down leaving a large plaster

applied direct to cinder

space between the bottom of the blocks would be damp. We think it |

a threshold is a major undertak-|away from the blocks by means of 'ing and it is much simpler to screw furring strips. The dead air be-

edge of the door. This will cover|ihe plaster. up most of the opening, and the, rest can be taken care of with! weatherstripping.

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