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building procedure. In most .0- There are plenty of closets, a |calities these panels are sold as vestibule and a picture window. |concrete lumber or under the The kitchen and utility room with
. Is Like Wood |trade name Modern Crete. |service entrance provide -lots of Now as to the design of the space for the tasks of the house-
New Material
Home Is Built of ‘Concrete Lumber’ Clay Tile Production
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| By DEAN H. ROBINSON [nome itself, either a two or three wife. The square shape is anThe small home for this week bedroom home can be built on the other economy feature so that no {s entirely diffrent from any we same basic plan and yet in both matter what exterior material have previously published al- plans the rooms are large and you used the house should be reathough this difference ‘may not!/convenient living is stressed sonable in cost. { be noticeable at first glance. It is the material used in the| se-0° - walls that makes this home un-| |
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years this material will be in general use throughout the counKITCHEN ® | jota"xr0-9" | &
try. fei I call this new product Con- M1 erete Lumber because it can be BATH {LJ sawed, drilled and hammered exactly the same, and with the Fa same tools, as lumber. | Actually, Portland cement is mixed with “aMightweight mineral | - aggregate ‘and poured into moulds | ” ela which produce a standard panel | - 16 inches wide, 312 inches thick, | and eight feet tall. No sand or| l gravel is used and the resulting 4 panel is less than half as heavy as regular concrete, Fach panel will stand a weight of 50,000 pounds and they are fireproof and vermin proof. They | have afr excellent insulation qual-| ity because of the millions of dead air spaces contained in the | mineral aggregate.
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When building with this new! material, the footings are poured or the basement built and then| a U-shaped steel channel is bolted or nailed to the top. The panels are slipped into place, braced and
nailed to the channel which has gyy14ing plans and specifications; first set..$5.00 hundreds of holes in it and when
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I watched three men erect the walls of this home in 8 hours, windows and all in place and ready for the roof. The cost of the panels in most] areas is about the same or slight-| Address ly less than lumber, Panels can
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Home Building Reaches All Time High Active in Chicago
Home building of new "units Production of clay wall and will continue to be, available,” he started during the second quarfloor tile totaled more than 47 added. Demand by the public for quail=:
four months of 1951 and is cur-|ity matepials in new.-homes, in- gle family and apartment units
{rently running about 20 per cent|creased uses of tile in all rooms according to a report on the six- |
higher than at any previous time of the home and an extensive county Chicago metropolitan area. in history, Roy W chweiker, promotion and advertising pro-| chairman of the Tile Council of gram instituted in 1945 have Deva] «This year's first six months America, sald this week. major factors in creating today’s Tile is now being produced at record demand for clay tile, ac-|taled 15, 750 as compared tao 21,590 an annual rate of 141 million! jcording to Mr. Schweiker. {for the same period last year—a “Cutbacks in new home build-!jacrease of 27 per cent. square feet, in comparison with jhe have not resulted in any The 1 k n 1950's record output of 125 mil- slackening of clay tile sales,” Mr. £ € lower volume here this year ollows the national trend. Belion square feet, he said. This is Schweiker said. “A record amount! cause of higher material: and approximately 50 per cent higher 0 hosts Pemcdeling. plus indus- |), por costs, more stringent credit than 1926 volume, which was the Ta wi gipital construction, controls, shortage of mortgage peak year of the home building Reson °T arge part for this ,nev and other factors, it apboom of the 1920s. continue emand. pears thf?” the 1951 volume will “The clay tile industry has ex- drop considerably below last year's record home building production of 44,000 units. the Builders’ estimates of construcmand,” Mr. Schweiker said. second largest industry of the {i5n costs for one-family houses “At the contractor level, a very nation, contributing about $88 started during the first six months intensive apprentice training pro- billion per year to the gross na- of 1951 in the Chicago area in-| gram has been carried out, and tional economy, Bill Mohr, execu- creased to an average of $12,900! as a result sufficient skilled me- tive secretary of the Marion per unit from $10,800 per unit for| chanics to install this record|County Residential Builders an-/the same period last year, an! amount of tile ‘have been, and nounced this week, increase of $2100 per unit.
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