Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1948 — Page 8

walls and the window and door

so you can pry off the trim gently and let the nail heads pull right through the wood. After this they can be removed with a hammer, and the small hole left. in the

stock designs at lumber yards and wood mills, but ¥ you have something special in mind, they can make it up to your order.

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HUBBARD COBB, Your Handyman If you are looking for a good way to kill time until your summer vacation, you can do worse than replace what we assume to be outmbded, unattractive and overdecorative interior wood trim with something with a modern and mere clean cut design. new trim, remove the old and see how wide the new must be to cover the seams between the plaster

wood won't spoil it for some other job.

You can get trim milled in

A nice and simple way to make joints in trim is with a miter joint

which consists of cutting each This is splitting hairs, we know, piece at a 45 degree angle. fine toothed saw for this job and . Moth control can be divided

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make the cuts accurate so you'll get a nice tight fit. : Don't assume the framework around openings is plumb—use a level to check each piece of trim for correct positioning before it is nailed in place. Nail heads should

with a nail set and the resulting

hole can be filled with putty or plastic wood.

Moth Control Divided Into 3 Key Steps

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moths that eat up clothing, it's

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Use a but it is true.

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I've been hard at work on a gadget called “A Nuclear Fission! Moth Eliminator” but something appears to have gone wrong because it doesn’t seem to bother the

As a matter of fact, it’s not the

{keeping the containers mothproof for the duration of the warm weather. +» Moth eggs and larvae can be taken care of by dry cleaning, washing, spraying the garment with a commercial moth killer or hanging the

After this has been done the articles can be stored in garment bags, trunks or closets. Trunks and closets must be made tight and given some sort of treatment

to remove any eggs, moths or

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you have to go in for some major changes in walls and ceilings.

t in the. sun! 8004 deal of sound is. carried by

So. garmen for this year anyway, you'll just and giving it a good brushing.

and the only w d |have to use some of those old y way to get aroun

this is to build two separate walls! completely independent of each other. walls can be staggered so it won't] be as wide as it would if they | were to be placed at the same points. Then, safe side, a felt blanket is woven between the staggered studding. This same treatment can be used, on floors as well. Sound insulation must be done| in any wall unless they have all at the point where the noise origi-| been packed tight with a good|a majority of the finance commitnates so if you have a noisy Srade mortar. Decorative and tricky mortar joints look nice but| peal of the federal taxes unless over this problem. Remember, if Some will allow water to get pressure of public opinion causes trapped in them where it will have time to look for small

whatnot that might be around. This can be done with a DD} bomb or by placing moth crystals (paradichlorobenzene) over each layer of clothes in tHe trunk. Closets can be sprayed with the bomb or containers of moth crystals hung at the top. Garment bags can be purchased which are not only tight but ire treated so hat moths wouldn't like it even if they could get in. If a closet or trunk is opened again after it has been sealed, give it another dose’ of moth eliminator just so you'll {be on the safe side.

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