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for error. Now go over to the end wall and multiply the width by the height up to the roof eaves. Multiply this sum by two and write it down. Now we have to figure in the gable ends and as

| | this is a triangle we get the total] area by multiplying the width by one-half the height. Multiply this by two, put it on your list and add the three sets Of figures together. The total is the number of square feet that must be covered. Divide this figure by 500, which is about the| average number of square feet one gallon of paint will cover and the result will be the number of gallons you'll need for the entire ob. : Don’t run off yet because we have not figured in the trim around doors and windows. The best way to do this is to figure that the trim will take about onesixth the amount of paint required for the entire outside walls.

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Here is another conglomeration of those little ones that seem to slip through our fingers and get away now and then. Maybe we should toss them all back and give ’em another -year or so to grow. You can often soften up the glue holding furniture joints together ‘with a little plain vinegar. Just work it into the joint. If you want to drill a hole in glass use a very hard steel twist drill and be sure that the glass is

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sash. The best thing is to remove all the putty and the glass, scrape the wood recess clean and apply a thin coat of paint or linseed oil.

The paint or oil will prevent the oil in thé new putty from being absorbed by the wood and the putty cracking at some future te. By the way, you can get fire alarms and burglar alarms that don’t need any wiring or other elaborate installation. You can usually take the curl out of the corner of a rug or the

To Build With Bricks

hood not famous for its clean fresh air, The filters can be installed on the windows and will see to it that only clean air gets into the house. They are even more of a boon to anyone owning one of those old fashion gravity type warm air furnaces that usually send up a few tons of dirt during the course of a winter. : Here the fiiter is installed on the furnace and the next thing you know you breathe without coughing and stop dusting the place every hour on the hour,

Tips Given on How

Here is some information on the subject of bricks. After you have read it you may not be qualified to build a brick house or even a

probably can build a brick garden wall or terrace and it should hold together.

course. When bricks are set lengthwise it is called a stretcher course and when they go crosswise it is known as a header course. The arrangement of these courses is called a bond. For example, there is the common bond consisting of five stretcher courses one on too of the other and then one header course, 5 stretchers and so on. The English bond has one header course, one stretcher, one header and so on. As the average brick is about eight inches long each header course will give the wall a thickness of eight inches. This is the minimum thickness for a wall, by the way. If this just confuses you, go study a brick wall for a few minutes and you'll see what we mean. The strength of a brick wall depends on staggering the vertical mortar joints in such a fashion that the joints in the course above do not come directly over the ones below. Bricks should be set on a firm.’ level, sound foundation the same width as the wall is to be. The

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YALE Simple Arithmetic Needed to Esti mate Amount of Electric Air Filters Operate on Simple Process; Little Skill Needed to Patch Plaster Walls

By HUBBARD COBB, Your Handy Man | There are few things more distressing to the week-end painter than to get the house hailf-painted, run down to the paint store for more paint and then hear, “Sorry, we're fresh out of that shade

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that the new stuff can get behind them and get a good strong mechanical grip. And the edge of the old plaster around the area to be filled should be cut back down at an angle to form a key. An important item is to wet down the edges of -the old plaster so that it won't absorb all the water from the patch before the patch has set hard, If the water is absorbed then the patch will not harden properly. Something else you might as well keep in mind is that plaster will shrink a little when it.hardens, so if you want the patch to be flush with the old plaster it must be applied in two coats. The first coat goes on until you are about 1% inch below the old surface. Leave this coat rather rough and then when it is hard and has done all the shrinking it plans to do, apply the final finish coat,

Corrosion Inside Pipes

Slows Flow of Water

Just about the time you make the last payment on the mortgage and the place is yours, all yours, things start happening and you have to run back to the bank for another small loan. One of these “things” that happens is a gradual “slowing down of the water system until that morning shave becomes an all day affair. This slowing down of the water works is usually caused by a heavy accumulation of corrosion inside the pipes and it's nothing to laugh about when it happens in your house. There are a couple of things ou can-do to get things working again. One remedy is to have a

concern that does this sort of work come in and clean out the inside of the pipes. This will get the water flowing again but it's only a temporary cure as corrosion is going to wet

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thickness or the vertical mortar joint should be about 14 inch, but this can be changed a little one way or the other so that the

bricks will come out even at each

end of the wall. ; Wet the bricks before laying and see that the side with the trademark faces down. The mortar used with bricks is made with one part Portland cement, and three parts clean fine sand. Add enough water to get a nice plastic mortar and don’t mix more than you can use in 30 minutes or so.

dent in the nap caused by a leg of a heavy piece of furniture by placing a plece of damp cloth over the area and then running a hot iron over it. After this, give the nap a gentle brushing.

Electric Air Filters Work on Simple Plan

According to my records the one thing in this world that no one has found a way to charge you for is the air you breathe. You can breathe all you want and it won't cost you a cent. The hitch is that a lot of the air floating around these days. is so full of dust and dirt that it isn’t worth breathing—even for free. Well, if it's the air inside your house that is giving you a bad time you might be interested in one of these electric air filters,” These cleaners work on a very simple process and ‘we wonder why we didn’t think of them first. The idea is that air containing the dirt is made to pass through a ispecial gadget that gives each

{and every little particle of dust a | positive electrical charge. | The dust goes along with the {air now until it comes to a plate {with a negative electrical charge. {The plate attracts the dust with the positive charge and holds it while the clean air goes on its way until someone takes breath. The filter is provided with a device so that the dust and dirt on the plate can be removed when necessary. These filters are a great help to anyone living in a neighbor-

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For example, when you patch a crack the opening must be cut out so that the inside is deeper than This makes a little key that will keep the patch from

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A number of modern mothers | have decided it is worthwhile teaching their boys simple domesIn most American families in the past, the sewing on of a button, the pressing of sweeping

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started again the minute the pipe has been cleaned.

The other disadvantage to this treatment is that if things are pretty far gone the removal of the corrosion may expose weak points in the pipe and you end up with a leaky plumbing system. The best thing you can do is to have the pipes replaced. This will run into a little monev but you do get a new plumbing system out of it. The best pipe for this job in most cases is copper tubing. The reason is that aside from its resistance to the corrosive effects of most water it can be threaded up between walls and through floors without having to rip the whole house apart. This saving on instai(ation costs will go a long way to off-set the higher price of the copper tubing over rigid pipe.

Here Are Some Tricks On Minor Repairs

Here we have that catch-all column again. A collection of miscellaneous items too small to take up a full column and too important to forget or toss away. For example, a scratch in shellac can often be removed by wip-

ing with denatured alcohol. If that doesn’t work, try brushing a thin coat of shellac into the scratch. Squeaky stair treads in a flight of stairs with the underside exposed can be taken care of by driving in the wood wedge that is supposed to hold the edge of the tread into the groove that is cut in the side of the stringer. Wax, by the way, makes a very nice finish for concrete basement floors. If the concrete tends to be a little dusty the wax will take care of that, too. And holes drilled or left at the base of garden retaining walls will prevent water pressure building up in back of the wall and cracking it. A space of 4th inch should be

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ability to do such dpmestic jobs is very helpful. ' These same skills can be very handy in later years, too, when the boy marries. The young husband who ¢éan turn a competent hand to the preparation of an attractive meal for his sick wife or givé a lift with some other household task brings to marriage a very real contribution. Even though such Qelp is not frequent, the fact that a man can and does step in when it is greatly needed can do a lot to

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from bulging out should it absorp, any moisture. a Spackle is great stuff for filling in rough spots on plaster beforg repainting. When ’t is dry it can be sandpapered down to a smooty surface. You can get it at paig and hardware stores.

Septic Tanks Go Bad | When Most Needed

It's an established fact that thy only time a septic tank or cess. pool will go out of order is whey you have a house full of Suesty,

or are just about to sell the place to some sucker for five times ity real value. Now when one of these private sewage systems goes out of whack your best friend is some. one who has made a study ang a career out of the care and feed. ing of these gimmicks. And the best of these specialists ; is the character who did the original installation of the sys. tem. If he doesn’t understand how it works probably no one will, So while there is not much yoy

o Yourself can do to get the system

back in working order there arg several things you can do to pre. vent it getting that way in the first place. To begin with, don't overload the system and this ig especially true of a septic tank, Don't connect the roof gutters into it and don’t install an extra bathroom into the system unless you are sure that it can stand it, Keep insoluble solids from go. ing down drain fixtures and be careful what type and the amount of chemical drain cleaners yoy pour into the system. Some of these chemicals will stop the ac. tion of a septic tank quicker than you can say “Operator. Get meg good plumber-—fast.” And don’t treat a septic tank like an orphan—it should get a cleaning out every few years to keep it happy and contented Grease is still putting cesspools out of operation and the only real solution here is to have a grease trap installed at some point in the line.

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