Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1947 — Page 12

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Youll get unding when the Poor-Working Furnace May Have Obstruction! [pitch to a yn

In Chimney; Damp Basements Not Necessary | Water gets trapped in a horizontal By HUBBARD COBB, Your Handy Man {run of pipe. and bjoeks § the vay 4 If you should ever get to wondering why your fuel bills are so high/ ve Ono) ng Steams, of e ng in spite of insulation and storm windows, start counting the number of | {do here Is put to wood nde times the front and back doors are opened. The cat wants to come in, {the legs of the radiator neares

pounding. This will usually change} the dog wants out, junior in, the cat out, sister in and finally those | the pitch of the pipe sufficiently tol

fy you have a Some repair problem, write a letter to Mr. Cobb, care of The Indianapolis ‘Times. If ‘your question is of general interest, an answer to it will appear in a forthcoming column on The

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So-this finally brings us around to] ~~ storm porches, Will they do mira« |problems. Use machine of carriage

cles? No. But a-well built storm Dols to attach the sections "together! porch will keep those icy blasts from #nd hooks na yes to fasten fie chilling the entire house and if they Porch to the. house. Make th are large enough will provide a S€aMS as tight as possible and check place for persons: to take off. over- the second hand market for a door.

hoes ahd not Jruck up the house. Steam Heating Noises A storm porch can n sec Need Not Be Endured

tions out, of plywood, asbestos board: or some composition wood with Our particular twentieth .cgptury brand of noise, according to some be attached to the masonry first medical authorities, is slowly. driving as. a base for the wallboard. This everyone a little nuts: Well, anyone oorrectly and the only way to stop Will create a dead alr space between who has ever listened to a pounding| ine pounding is to let a plumber or| the maseRry and the wallboard that steam radiator could have told Us| peating man go to work on it, {will act as®an insulation and keep this yedrs ago. the wallboard from getting chilled. places Occasionally

Steam radiators and pipes will Fire It's a smart idea to give the backpound and carry on for a number of : side of the wallboard a coat or two Need Some Attention What with everything getting so|out.

Bome systems are not installed proof ‘paper should go down first {and the flooring should be set a linches away from the concrete, if” possible, The underside of the flooring should be painted to keep the | wood from rotting.

of 2 ins. by 2 ins. furring have to

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J | reasons, A common cause of this of oll paint to keep any moisture 3 | trouble is dirty water in the furnace Efe |bofler. The dirt makes the water|oomplicated that even inventors foam and this mixes some water in Somp figure out —how--their brain Wax, Properly Applied, strips of 2 inches by 2 inches for with the steam. The solution 1s 10 .hild works, people forget that Protects Many Items the frame. Build the porch large clean out the boller and refill with| something as simple as a fireplace - enough to hold three or four per- fresh water. Steam radiators Will [eeqs a little attention if the mem-| Here is some information on the sons so that the house door can be pound if the radiator shut-off valve, .. or the household aren't to go [subject of wax, closed before the storm door is|is half way'open. The valve, in case nq smelling like smoked hams > opened. Build the porch in sections you didn't guess, should be either j\roo o poorly constructed fireso that it can be put up and taken all the way open or all the Way|, i.e won't burn worth a nickel and down without major construction closed. _ ithe only person qualified to figure - Ly out what's wrong is a man who ’

knows his fireplaces, On the other | hand, a lot of fireplaces work Just | fine until one day they start acting | up. This is usually caused by chim- | neys being filled with soot, assorted bird's nests or even some of Junior's) |toys. | The inside of a fireplace 1s usually | Wax was first invented by a bee lined with firebricks and these have named Egbert, but he never realized the ‘commercial possibilities. 8inc then, it has come a long way—but who remembers Egbert? Wax is used for any number of jobs about the house. When applied (properly and according to the di-| {rections on the back of the con- | taner) to a surface it provides a| | high polish, but also, and this is |more important, it protects the sur-| {face from scratches and makes|

| {cleaning easy.” Well, pretty easy.| a habit of geting loose after a 8 y p

murbor of Sears, As they were put, BCR Cr Le wed there for a very sound reason they

lover varnish or shellac. The. wax should be replaced without further] ado. Clean the brick and the cavity will take all the wear and tear while

first so you get all the old cement the varnish or shellac just sits there

and dirt out of the way. When this 80d takes life easy. When i I has beén done the bricks can be re. | DegINS to wear it can be renewed set with fire clay or furnace cement. | Which 1s a lot easier than refinish-| Be sure you get the joints well |In8 the floor. packed, and you'd better not build] Don’t aply was in heavy conti a fire until the cement is hard. |as this makes it slippery. And don’t By the way, a fire needs air if it use an oll mop to clean a waxed is going to burn properly. Close the| — = A ———————— doors and windows of a room tight A shut and the fire will go out—or just about out.

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Storm Porch Can Easily Be Built and. Will Add to Comfort of Home as Well As Save Fuel; Noisy Steam Radiators Indicate Trouble Which Needs Attention

‘leum too. It is easy to keep clean hums and chatters while filling up

guésts who just like to stand in an open door and talk and talk, {let the water get back to the boiler, Times Home Page. nice finish “and we: won t take any short, a lot 6f BTUs can flow out through that open door in nothing flat. Ing flat. | thout mixing up with the steam. . | —————- > Lo ges Realty Board Delegates

few Move wax, use turpentine.

As far as the walls go, these can filter to keep the air clean. These| Attending the convention are: be covered with wallboard. Strips miters should be changed once aj Mr. and Mrs, A. H. M. Graves, Mr.

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and will keep the linoleum looking|is that the washer on the inlet valve as pretty as an advertisement in a/ls worn. Might as well replace it} slick paper magazine. |riow because pretty soon: it will start Wax can be used on furniture in- leaking. stead of an, Oil polish. “ Both make a |

If you ever get the urge to re- Off to San Francisco

Members of the Indianapolis Real | Estate Board left today for the 40th Furnace Air Filter {annual convention of the Nattonal Should Be Kept: Clean Asociation of Real Estate Boards, to be held in San Francisco MonMany warm gir furnaces have a | day through Wednesday.

{ang Mrs. Paul L. McCord, Mr. and Mrs, Hugh Bremerman, Mr. and | Mrs. Albert E. Thompson, Mr, and|

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James Mudd, assistant sales manager for the Bellows Co, Akron, O., year 1f you want to keep gust and was to address the Indianapolis dirt from circulating ‘about the Chapter of the American Society of house. | Tool Engineers this evening at 8 Spattered cement on bricks can be P. m. in the Lincoln Hotel. His, softened and removed by applying subject was to ‘be “Controlled Air

a solution of one part muriatic acid Power, Deut es” supplemented by a

to 20 parts water. This will not only | ———————————— soften up the cement but the mor- AUXILIARY ASSEMBLES

[tar holding the bricks together s0| Members of the Ladies’ Auxiliary watch where you put the stuff and|!© the Infiannpulss Firemen's Assorinse it off with plenty of fresh || eg in Dh" rotor water, . |Mrs. Sherril Adam and Mrs. Mary || Chair rungs broken close-to the Schumacher will be in charge of the leg can be repaired by drilling a hole | meeting. {through the leg and into the rung land then running a long thin wood {screw through.

Don't try to repair a leak in a gas line yourself. Turn off the sup-

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| penguins for the National Zoological park and information for the National Museum about life in the strange “oases” ‘in. Antartica's ty] desert are the ‘objectives of two! young naturalists who will accom-| pany the Navy's new expedition to the world’s southernmost = waters. The two ships constituting this ex-| pedition are expected to sail soon,

the mysterious ice-free areas seen from the air by members of the recent Byrd expedition will be stud-| led on the ground by David C. Nutt. He will also. make collections of marine life along the shores of Ant-| artica and by dredging on the oo tom under the ice shelf.

house at the National Zoo, brought, back a big flock | Mrs. W. Lawrence Sexton, J, Arthur he returned from | Rentsch, Mary Binford, Mr. and arctic trip with the first Byrd expedition. He is \patricularly anxious to secure Emperor, Adelie and (ientoo penguins or: this expedition, and if possible some Antarctic seals as well.

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The still-unknown life forms of!

Malcolm Davis, keeper of the bird,

of penguins. when his previous Ant-

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