Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1948 — Page 9
WEDNESDAY, NOV.
Fix It Yourself—s
Cellulose Tape, Caution Saves Plaster When Nailing Into Wall
17, 1948
A By HUBBARD COBB, Your Handy Man There are two things to bear in mind when you start off to hang
something to a plaster wall.
*One is not to break up any more of the plaster than is n and the other is not to have the object you hang drop and hit you
ox the head at some later date.
“As a general thing, g Paster does not make an ideal base for
a nail. It's easy to pull the out. This condition can be partially avoided by driving the nail down at a slight angle. ‘This will give it it greater holding power and ‘is the reason why
hangers are ull 50 that they can't help but go in at the right angle. A little cellulose tape stuck over the plaster before the nail goes in will reduce the chances of ciigping) te plaster.
When you have a-really heavy object to hang from a. plaster wall, it is best either to place your nail so ‘that it goes into the wall |
studding or use some type of|
fastening device that will get in| back of. the plaster and laths and then expand to take a really firm
Pp. You can find the studding by examining the baseboard until you find nail heads. These nails go right into the studding so that!
if you come up in a straight line from them you'll have a piece of studding in back. If the wall is made out of steel framing with metal laths this idea isn't going to be of much help. ; What you do here is to drill a hole through ’the plaster at any point you want and then insert the fastening device.
Exercise Caution In Thawing: Pipes
Naturally, it won’t ever happen to you, but maybe sometime your next door neighbor's water pipes will freeze and then you will want to be informed on the subject of thawing pipes so that you can sit around and give him.advice.
The first rule in dealing with a
wise. You prove otherwise by checking ovee the entire length of pipe looking for splits or open seams. If the pipe appears to be okay, turn off the water supply to that line, open the faucet at the other end and start thawing. Always start thawing as near the open faucet as possible. Then, if there is a little split you didn’t notice, |you won't be caught with a high class flood on your hands.
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frozen pipe is to assume that it has split until you prove other-|
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haps the trouble is due to lines which have sagged. Water will accumulate at these low points and prevent the steam from reaching the radiator. The cure here is to hoist up the pipes so that they all slant down towards the boiler,
A blow torch is good unless you Hollow Walls get careless and set the wits Su Are Fire Hazards fire or overheat the pipe so that) 5... 4 (age you have been out | team forms 2x4 Plows you and/;s town or haven't been paying 4 c divin will do" the close attention to this column, we trick too. but be careful not to wish to point out again that the let the Ye ater come into dirsct outside walls of most homes are contact with the pipe. If you do, §2 hollow as a Halloween pumpyou might get a nasty shock should you come into contact with either the heater or the pipe.
Radiators Need Winter Attention
If we were to sit down and’list all the reasons why a radiator can remain cool in spite of all your efforts, we should probably {all die of boredom. To avoid this w [calamity we will just list a few| There is the outer wall, an air lof the more obvious reasons why space and then your inner wall. you can spend the winter shiver-/As a matter of fact, not only are ing in spite of a roaring fire in the walls hollow but very often the furnace. this space opens up in the baseA radiator in a hot water sys- ment and in the attic. This is tem will remain cool if it is not/bad for séveral excellent reasons. vented when the system is filled| First of all, a hollow wall is a to remove the air from inside the|very bad thing if a fire should radiator. ever start in the basement. The Another cause of trouble isifire will use the space between that the system is not completely walls as a flue and the next thing filled and so the water can’t cir-|you know the top of the house is culate. Make sure that the sys-/lm flames. stem is ‘filled to capacity before| Another point about these walls you. book passage for the south|is that rodents find them a perséas. fect means of getting from basement to attic or vice versa without having to depend on the stairs. Last of all, the air that circulates through this space is doing a fine job of conducting the heat from the inside walls to the outside walls where it is absorbed by the cold outside air, In short, the wall is wasting a lot of heat. The best way to take care of
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Some radiators won’t heat be- it with insulation. The insulacause the pipes are of the wrong |tion should be treated so that it size or because there are too is fire resistant and vermin proof. many sharp angles in the lines| The next best thing is to close which reduce the circulation of|up the exposed openings in the the water. A radiator far re-/basement and the attic with con-
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Keep Those Rats Away From Home
There are any number. of different kinds of rats in this world, but the ones we are interested in this minute have long nasty looking tails and whiskers that twitch.
It’s just about impossible to say anything nice about rats. They carry nasty diseases, they eat a lot of food that should go to humans and livestock, and they even bite little children. In short, rats are rats. ¢ The best way to control rats is not to let them get into a house to begin with. Rats seldom use the front door but they seem to find plenty of other entrances. What you want to look for are those small openings around the foundation wall that may lead into the basement or the base of the
out the front office and get home: and go to bed. Here are a few of the things we are liable to say. If you are looking for 3 way to cut down your fuel bill, try mix= ing some of the snialler grades of coal in with the regulation stove size coal used for furnaces. The smaller grades will give plenty of heat but they cost less per ton than the larger size. Hence you save money. You can patch a tear in leather upholstery by cementing a patch to the under side of the leather
liquid cement. * A door that constantly bangs against a plaster wall is not doing either the plaster, the wall decorations or the door much good. It's a nice idea to fasten door stops to the baseboard or floor and put an end to this sort of thing.
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After 34 Years, Brothers to Meet
Two brothers who hadn't seen each other for 34 years were to be reunited today in the Union Station. Julius Larson, 6128 E. 11th St, ‘planned to meet his brother, Mandius Larson, Noblefort, Alberta, Canada, for a reunion engineered at long range by a sister in Hauegsund, Norway, Both were born in rway and came to the United - States 10 years apart. They met here once before, in 1914, Mandius made his way to Canada and became a |rancher, After years of not knowing each other's whereabouts, the sister gave Mandius A Teas
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