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situation of this sort you ‘metal mending plates. plates, as we've menbefore, come in many and shapes. You can get fit just about any furnijob and if you are skill, you'll do better than with some of the furniture repair sug-

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with wood screws and not nalls.

Nails won't hold very well in the first place and in the second place they are very likely to split the Wood and make things that much

vu fact, it's even possible to split the relatively thin wood ubed in furniture with screws but get around this by drillhole for the screw in the hole should be just a

is above the United States. Existence of the gas nitrous oxide in the earth's atmosphere in sufficient quantity to record itself on spectrum photographs of the sun's rays passing through the earth's atmosphere was estab- : lished several years ago by Dr.

TT — tal Mending Plates Do the Best Repair Jobion Furniture

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By HUBBARD COBB, Your Handyman it's the ihe price we pay for this wonderful civilization we from wha have observed, nothing we own seems to

furniture as well as money,

when a piece of furniture splits or comes apart at the prescribed treatment " u to patch up the trouble with a

fine thought us. Sometimes even

“Don't Be Fuel Stingy * With Your Fireplace

Fireplaces know no climate— they are as welcome in the south] on a chilly evening as in the north on a blistering cold winter's

burn gaily and dan’t go throwing| clouds of smoke off into the

living room and into your eyes. ‘an individual, can do about get- the yame manner as outside lines. A fireplace will smoke or justiting the brick wall back where it|you don't need waterproof paper This job happens to be|,n these bakies. Irather tricky and it would be wise Water meters exp ted to freez-

fot burn at all for any number of interesting reasons. One very common cause is that the damper is not open enough or that there is some obstruction in the chimney flue. Bome fireplaces smoke because of downdrafts which can be caused by an improperly designed chimney cap or even the limb of a nearby tree or a tall building. A lot of fireplaces won't burn because they just don’t get enough air. Close all the doors and windows in the room and the fire will have a hard time getting along-—it’s got to have|

down the chimney. A lot more fireplaces don’t burn {properly because the owner is too stingy with fuel. One log alone

of ashes, If you want a fireplace to heat

quite a spell. Now some fireplaces won't burn’ because they just were not made! right. Building a bum fireplace takes very little skill but fixing! a bum one so that it will burn calls for a very smart

Fixing Brick Veneer

a Mason's Job

If you happen to live in a brick veneer house and you find that some of the veneer is bulging, you should read the rest of this article. When you have finished you will not only know the cause of this condition, but also learn that it is not | MA An outside wall of brick veneer | is tied to the house framing we

‘ |and interior decorations. i Water Pipes Need Care in Winter

| winter many a faithful reader “a nickel—biit toss on several and and old subscriber was troubled

they'll keep each other going with a condition, known in the until there is nothing but a bed {rade as “frozen water pipes.”

If you have a home 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 ¢olumn of The Times Home Page.

means - of little metal brackets nailed to the framing and cemented into the masonry. If a suffi. cient number of these brackets are used and if they are properly installed the bricks and the frame will never part company. The fact is, however, this is

insulation and ruin everything. Another trick you can do with an outside pipe is to build a box around it and then fill the box with sawdust, ground cork" or rock wool. Build the box big

{not always the case and then if}

[there is any movement or settling least six inches or more of innight—providing, of course, theyla gection of the bricks will bulge suiation all around the away from the framework. |

There is not much that you, as

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| {for you to call in a good mason jand let him figure out how to cor{stop the of bulges. Our only point in bringing the subject up in the first place was

possibiilty

and done fast else you take the, risk of a major repair job on the|

outside walls and also the possi-|

{bility of water getting into the

{house and damaging the plaster] last

We rather dimly recall

Now this state of affairs is us-

the room, don’t keep it too clean. {ually discovered in the joorning| The ashes will retain heat for'and, as things in the morning are bad enough, we present. a few|

ideas on how to prevent pipes and meters from freezing. The best way to keep an outside pipe from freezing is to bury it below the frost line. If,th®™

enough so that there will be at!

pi Inside pipes in unheate rooms {can be covered with insulation in

ing weather can protected by building a box around them and filling it with the same materials

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| Beiter shut these rooms down

{not contain any water that might|

is nice but is not vital in this day of anti-freeze. Turn off the heat in the garage and you'll be lifting quite a load from the shoulders of your furnace. Another good place to close for the winter is a guest room-—saves you heat and saves you the trouble of having guests, Sun porches and solariums are fine and dandy but all that glass gives away an awful lot of heat.

until again, Before you close a room up for the winter be sure that all radiators inside are turned off and do

the weather gets warm

freeze, Registers should, of! course, be turned off, too. If there are any water pipes passing through the room these should be insulated to prevent them from freezing. If you want

the time to weather-strip the door after it has been closed so that no heat from the rest of the

used for the outside pipes. sure that the box is’ tight and! waterproof and try to get about 6 to 8 inches in insulation all {around the meter.

Take It Easy

If you want to kill off a furnace in a hurry then get one that|

{nace and then you can go out and get a new one. Now if this sounds too expen-

under-sized heating plant, then

minutes off and shrink your, house to fit the furnace. For example, a heated garage Baked

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It’s not such a hot idea to spray down hot ashes in the furnace ash pit because the steam that results fs bad for the grates. Either wait until the ashes are cool or pull them out and then spray them down, It's an established fact your chances of getting hurt are greater when working with dull knives,

with a razor sharp edge. The rea-

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Small chips around the edge 0] eilil is too small for the house and drinking glasses can at times be, plenty of air and none comes rect this particular bulge and run it full tilt all winter, Seems sanded out with fine sandpaper. | future that this will burn out the fur- Anq those cracks in boiler and insulation can be patched with asbestos cement. Be sure to lin a fireplace won't burn worth/ts say semething should be done ®ve and you are stuck with an dampen the surrounding insula-

son is simple—a dull tool will re—8a sharp one i posed to bite.

You can prevent iron screening ‘here are some items that might from rusting during the winter y coating it either with screen

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