Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1949 — Page 31

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SATURDAY, SEPT: 10, 1049 Fix It Yourself—

: s me moving 3 Jah 8s outsid thers. You'll have to immediately after it goes in. This : ; from concrete. [stucco but finding house| e {on others. You ve to use your 8 Could Wear Through Floor in Time; : Hon, I ora can Sal be nove punt method of doing this| might be tough and stucco isn't| ‘The saving in money comes in| fingers to roll the paper down and heating ter 3, it. Wax, Waterglass Applications Are Solutions lup where needed or old fashion|iob is with a hammer. and a cold too easy to apply. , .’|the form of reduced fuel bills. A |bepsure to keep pressure on it {oxygen from the a 4 Lig " RRL hs Se : ~iwood trim can be replaced with chisel. This can take sevirall (ng solution’ would be to sur-complete insulation job can save yal ohle' Information [mo En WW . By HUBBARD COBB, Your Handyman [simple- modern millwork. - |vears. A quicker way of doing|¢ace over the stucco with wood up to 40 per cent on heating costs.

We know of an overly ambitious housewife who has spent the last seven years trying to sweep a concrete floor clean. The ficor Putty or Cement

1s still dusty and sandy but she’s reduced its thickness by 3% inches. Fill Wallbdard Cracks At her present rate there shouldn't be any floor left by 1952. | Someone once started out to Concrete is dusty or sandy because too little cement was used =... o¢ the reasons why but that doesn't do you any good now, What you want to do 18 8t0p| _,} 1) ster cracks but got tired

the Hg. One of the simplest; 0 chitect, a contractor, his crew after only 123 items. Now with ~ methods is to coat it with Hquid| ang $25,000. The kind of remod- wallboard it's different. When a jeling that interests us is some- crack appears between sections k [thing that doesn't require much of wallboard it usually means ‘money and only what work We that that seams between sections } ses can do ourselves. |were not properly treated, If One trick to remodeling is to there is a gap of about inch stay clear of major structural between the sheets, here is what . For example, it's often you can do ‘about it. |quite possible to change the ex-| Clean out the joint and then {ternal appearance of a house bY sandpaper the edges of each sheet ~==—-== |adding or subtracting a porch or yntil you have a slight recess co [Just by reducing the size of theitnat extends about !; inch on rr Ca |present one, Removing ‘the gach board. ‘Now apply a coat ) |“gingerbread” trim will often of shellac to hte point. . This wax. Another way to eliminate help and so can making windows will act as a. size. What you the trouble is to coat the entire appear larger by install'ng shut-need now is some Swedish putty surface with a i ture of one! ters Another trick is to apply or wallboard cement and some |a-new siding material over the perforated or wire mesh tape. part waterglass to four parts |Your hardware store should ‘be eis oes Toast pa Allow a few days for the first application to dry and then give. it a second coat of the same. | If you ever expect to paint the) floor then don't use the water-| glass mixture or the wax. What you can use is. a commercial ¢on-| crete hardener which is sold at! hardware and paint stores. .

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h odel old. Even a new color outside the surface. } C anges in Remodeling paint or a change of color be- How to Take Paint

We have never been very im- tween the walls and the trim » pressed by reading how a Mr. (will help a lot. Off Concrete and Mrs, So and So Jr, trans-| When it comes to Internal Ag this is the age of steel and formed an old run-down shack changes your scope is somewhat concrete and as some people like into a lovely mansion with noth- wider. Two small rooms can be/to paint concrete and then decide ing more than a world famous made into one large one by re- they don't like the color of the

and then press the tape down over {t. The cement will ooze up

with a putty knife and then give the cement time to dry. Now apply a light coat of cement over the joint so that the recess on each sheet of wallboard has been

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Not Clean Sandy And Dusty

paint, this article is on how to re-|

the job is to. dissolve two pounds

of lye in one gallon of hot

This is mopped over the surface

and allowed to sit there minutes.

have the last speck out of the ' concrete

way, rinse the plenty of fresh water.

You may recall that lye is very corrosive so we suggest you not| only wear old clothes and shoes! but wear a pair of goggles and

rubber gloves.

A less messy way of removing { paint with lye is to soak sawdust |Pack the cement into the ‘joint with lye and then spread the saw- |

dust around like

spread. Let it sit

water,

Handy Little Tips Make

Running House Easier

{built up flush with the rest of Here are some facts that no one ever had to know to get a h.D. or even get into college. On the other hand, if you are just try-| Ing to run a home they may come 40%.

in handy.

Areaways around basement |

windows that don’t drain

| basement,

. | If you are the type who likes to {buy a good paint brush and keep ® it that way, get a little metal {comb so that you can remove the) {paint that collects up at the base)

{of the bristles.

| When window ‘screening tears! . {loose at the seams patched up by tacking a strip of|

Now go to work with! a scraper and if all goes well, the paint peels right off. After you,

a sandwich overnight, {through the holes in the tape and sweep away the sawdust and then PNG {this is good. Smooth things out wash the surface down with hot | {around the window frames Dbecause it won't be thick *nongh now that you've made the walls .,,req and a dark on two job of removing two layers of thicker. One idea is to block t/q re HOO oO he same

out; the other is tack another|.,ior Apply the first paint and both off in one operation. It's| ‘layer -on-over.the old. .

Insulation Saves Up to

it can be

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shingle.

¥ o covered with wa ‘paper. Now it's-just a matter *® nailing on the new siding whic as any child knows, |play. About the only thing t. - {isn’t child's play is when you run “8% into window and door frames, You'll want flashing up under the last course of the siding angen t bring it down over the top © e trans, You'll also ao do|wall finishes just made to order| something about the outside trim for anyone who can't paint a wall!

water.

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with

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screening to the side of the frame and then sewing this to the torn,

{screening with fine wire.

{ One way to take the dampness along perfectly well without. ‘out of a house is to turn on the Now we don’t know if house inheating system. ‘Just keep the sulation is still classified “Incredheat up long enough to dry things ible and slightly Suseng fu u

out.

‘| ‘Renovating Stucco Isn't an Easy Task

here are a anyway.

siding or wood or

Concrete Containing Too Little Cement

would be eto resurface It with another

The first stép here is to tack strips of 1 by 3 horizontally over the stucco so you'll have a nailing |base for the new material. Aus |these strips are on they shoul ter-proof biilding again.

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CEQ | marks. {soda and chlorinated lime and Teh Yen then adding enough boiling water : ”n Is rst of all there is the stippled d lass. They'll let mois-| patra Ih | wall finish. This § window glass y to form a paste, Just spread this

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in summer it keeps the hot air|coat from some areas but leave it/so that the fresh water is heated

That sum over a period of years can become quite a stack of pennies. Insulating an unfinished attic is not too difficult to do yourself—a lot of people have. When it comes

i wr On Several Subjects Odds and Ends for We .think and we think, we Future Reference ponder and we ponder, we pace Here are some more odds and and we pace but-all we can comeéiends of knowledge you ‘should up with is a lot of unrelated facts| store away some place where you to the walls, that's something and figures. {won't be able to find them when "| For instance watch out for lit- you need them. Best bet is to get an in-| A As in th t athe’ of{Sulating firm to come over and “® “TAC 8 in the putty around the| g,,.0ne has just come out pn, Plow the stuff right in. It only| with a little plastic strip that is :/takes a few days and there is no designed to fill that crack behat, Tess to speak of. 1 | |tween plumbing fixtures and the

Special Well Efcs ; i a uh e Brus arks

adhesive and the completed job | 1s waterproof. The strip of plastio can be painted. : | Fruit and vegetable stains on a kitchen sink can be removed by mixing equal parts of baking

Here are a couple of special

without ending ‘up with brush

8 4 Very easy tyre get to the wood and starton over the discoloration. Ney one to 88, Just coat the wall with the sash on the road to decay. | Small holes in linoleum can be 33g (Wo, amt and then before hel You can make a heat-proof fin- filled by grinding up some ONS with a sti Ay brush 3 8 ish for table tops by mixing one- linoleum into a powder and mixe | ppg « “works, third turpentine with two-thirds| |

the entire works. aaa 4 3 ’ linseed oil. Wipe it on and rub it {When you are finished you'll have into the wood. Wipe off the ofl]

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a finish with a sort of pebbly |appearance which looks a lot and then rub the surface dry. You can remove those black

Fuel Bills

| One of the biggest problems of living in this age of incredible be fitted with cover so that the|and amazing things is which inareaways will not fill up with wa- credible and amazing thing you The really need and which you can get

few facts

The entire argument in favor of insulation is that it makes a {house more comfortable in winter : We've often wondered what and summer and saves you a lot (we'd do if we lived in a stuccolof money to boot. It makes the {house and the stucco got so bad house more comfortable by slow-/ |that something radical had to be ing down the passage of heat done. One thing we could do through the walls and roof. In| would be to move and the other winter it keeps the hot air inside, |

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paints which have a pleasant | contrast. Use either a light When you are faced with the

the same Wallpaper, don't try to take them =tlet-it-dry:-~ Now take some news- safest-and generally easier 10. re- yng this-with-spar-varnish.-Just papers or absorbent paper towels move one at a time. [force this paste into the hole. |and roll them up into a nice tight| If the water in your furnace, Never apply putty directly to |roll. Apply the second coat of boiler was on the dirty side, make wood. Either coat the wood with {paint and before it has set, rollla note to drain the boiler and | paint or linseed oil because if the roll of paper diagonally down|flush it out right before the sys-| you don’t the wood will absorb over it. The idea is that the paper tem is started up again in the fall. | the oils out of the putty causing will remove some of the second It's best if you can arrange things it to dry out and crack.

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