Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1948 — Page 8
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! : home this past winter?” If you found the going ania your ho now is your chance to do something about it —from now until next fall.
y you might call in a heating contractor
In have a home repair write a letter to Mr. Cobb, care The InTimes. * If your
en . outside steps do not neces{sarily fall apart at one time. They can fall apart gradually, piece by piece. Therefore, when your foot goes through a step it is the step’s way of telling you that things are not as they should be. The main trouble with these
steps is that they are outside and tend to rot. One solution, not a
And this brings us to the sub- _ Ject of insulation which is great © for saving heat and preventing ' condensation on walls and roof. 1 your home is not insulated then this may be the key to your trouInsulating firms (and there are a flock of them) seem very happy to advise you on problems * in this field. If you've wasted a lot of valuable time and money thawing and
bles,
them indoors.
concrete
replacing pipes that burst when point.
frozen, you should get busy now and either bury the pipes in the ground below the frost line or have them covered with some form of insulation. or house, can furnish you with more dope on this matter. Improperly hung guiters will cause snow and ice to back up under the roofing and give the general effect of a leaking roof. Rehanging the gutters so that the outside edge is below the roof pitch is the answer here.
Wooden Outside Steps
Can Cause Trouble Unlike a one-horse shay, wood-
plumber,
Your local plumbing supply
very practical one, is to move| Or, you can build steps of concrete that won't rot. But, if you like wooden steps, then keep them well painted and see that the ends of the stringers (the s==x side pieces) sit on a flat rock or| slab and not on the damp ground. The rock or slab should be tilted, by the way, so that water will drain off. Anyway, this is far away from the
“moderate ease.
When the treads of the steps become loose it may be possible to nail them back to the stringer by nailing a wood cleat under the tread to the stringer and then
A Tio Get Things In on Before Next Fall
You Have Outside Wooden Steps, Check Them for Deterioration By HUBBARD COBB, Your Handy Man
At the risk of getting hanged, drawn and quartered by a delegation of subscribers, we ask the question, “Were you quite
nailing down the tread to the cleat, But if you should find .that the stringer is soft from rot then you will do better to build a new set of steps. Take the old one apart carefully as you'll want each piece as a pattern for cutting the new, Do this and you won't have too much trouble. When all the new wood has been cut to pize, paint the bottom and back edge and ends with three coats of exterior paint. Then, after the steps are assembled, paint the rest of the wood.
Copper Tubing Is Best For Amateur Plumbers tion on assembling copper tubing.
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go|TuUnning a line to the garage, or installing a few handy water hydrants about the lawn. Why” | Oh, you've got to read on to find out. Copper tubing can be bent with This means you can go around corners and helter skelter with it and not need all sorts of fittings. Tubing ce also be assembled without having to cut threads, a job calling for special tools. One way to assemble tubing is with soldered fittings—the other is with flared fittings. We're going to talk about the flared type because it’s the easiest. First, you want to be sure to get flared fittings and not tne
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‘Fair Radio Reception Here is some dandy informa- Sharpening Might Help Due for Two Days Those Cutting Tools
Cut the tubing with the saw, can be sharpened on an oilstone. ream out the burr on the inside Hold the blade so that the bevel and then slip the slip nut of the rests flat on the stone and move-it| Permutit fitting over the end of the pipe. back and forth. Eventually a wire Next take the flanging tool, put edge will appear at the tip of the a drop of oil on it and center it blade and this is a sign to stop. over the end of the tub. Rap the Turn the blade over and lay it flat flanging tool with a hammer un- {down on the stone. Move it a few til the end of the tube flares out times and the wire edge will disto the outside edge of the flang- appear. If you want a super sharp ing tool. Now place the end of he blade, hone it on a leather strap fitting into the depression created after you've finished with the oilby the flaring, pull up the slip stone. nut on the pipe and thread it
WASHINGTON Mar. 17— We got to thinking why it is Shortwave radio broadcasts will
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pe: mine in our back yard, out thatour week-end carpenters have get through fairly well today and
because tubing is very well suited so much trouble sawing a straight tomorrow with good listening
the
out getting that “a family of hun- week-end, the National Bureau of gry beavers have been here” ef- Standards reported today. one reason could be ° The four-day storm, worst of
that the cutting tools in the fam- the year so far, which had dis-| ily tool chest are about as dull as turbed listening since last Sat-|
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