Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1947 — Page 16

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| Basement Should Not Be Too Well Sealed | Or Fire Will Not Get SufficientOxygen

By HUBBARD COBB, Your Handy Man Furnaces, unlike movie stars, radio comedians and certain persons in the baseball profession, are not temperamegtal by nature. If you | have a furnace that is always acting up It's probably because some | human being did it wrong. Doors play a tremendous part in the happiness of a furnace. If | the ash pit door won't close tight ft's the same as if the damper was | partly open and the fire will race ™ ——— | through conl as fast as you can 8 shovel the stuff in. A large crack around the firepot doar will let the fire burn but that's about as far as it will ever go. Furnace doors usually fail to close properly because they have become warped, bent or are badly pitted by | i rust and corrosion {

taing moisture which is in the form,

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“water vapor.” The higher the temperature of the air the more of this water vapor it can carry. Now, when the air strikes a cold wall or window, its temperature drops and;

® Metal Guttering Another door you want to be sure column on The Times the air returns the favor by drop-| is closed tight is the chimney clean- H P ping some of the water vapor it's m e. Down Spouts {out door at the base of the chim- ome fag {been lugging around on the cold

surface, At this point the vapor changes into a liquid for reasons best known to itself, One way to stop your home from [turning into an aquarium is to keep {the moisture in the air down to a

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f 4 1d ~ dhiidon [to the chimney is full of holes and the joints are loose. | And last but not least, combustion still can't take place without:

~ | OXygen. If you keep your basement

this is best accomplished by insu- | lation between the inner and outer wall. As for the windows, storm sashes appear to be your best be! '!

|casions, the air in your house con- grow into adult headaches.

keep an eye on. Pipes rust out, fittings get loose and one fine day you end up with a small flood on your hands. Check the plumbing in your basement carefully and don't forget. the sewer system. A leak whole section down and this condi here can go unnoticed for many a tion should be avoided. The « to get around all this trouble is t be sure you place’ the articles to

as possible. In the case of walls Use Care in Hanging

and what have you on'walls

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Nature, Act Up Only When ‘Done Wrong’; Repairs To Damaged Door, Draft Or Chimney Will Pay Off In Fuel Saved

| As we have said on numerous oc- catch those repair jobs before they hold nails or ‘screws—by itself, In (secure in place, you have a nice fact, if you did find a way to hang solid base to attach whatever it The next time it rains (and it a heavy object on the wallboard was you went to all this trouble for| of a Japor and therefore called will) go into the attic and check alone, you would probably tear the | in the first place. the roof for leaks. This is better than finding it out when the plaster falls from the ceiling. Another spot to watch is window frames. Repair leaks here before the inside plaster gets damaged from water.

Plumbing is always something to

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'healthy minimum, by not letting qay Another spot to watch is un-| usually be positioned to fit over a moist air from the bath or kitchen! ger the kitchen sink, the bathtub piece of studding. For long articies |circulate through the other rooms or around the base of the toilet such as towel racks ong, won't and by not hanging wet wash In- pow] A slight leak fn any of these reach between two pieces of stud-! side the house. The other remedy spots will usually go unseen while ding but just can’t be nailed to is to keep the temperature of the the wood flooring quietly rots away. one, the thing to do first is nail a strip of board at each end of the

the nails or screws go through the wallboard and into the studding in

| the nail heads in the wallboard.

There isn’t much of a problem for small articles such as can openers

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increases in the cost of railroad operation piling’ up one atop another, how can the railroads’ multimillion dollar program for desperately needed new equipment be continued? How can improvements in roadbeds, yards, stations, rolling stock, which took a merciless beating in the war years of peak traffic, be carried through?

They can’t... UNLESS —

Unless the railroads are granted freight rates adequate to meet the wage and materials cost increases, and at the same time keep hundreds of American industries busy with new machinery and equipment orders.

Government requires that the railroads maintain a high standard of efficiency because You demand it,” Industry depends on it, and the Nation must have it.

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Thess figures do not include demands of train service organizations for changes in working rules nor for wage increases not already granted.

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