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ority of new homes have at! bathroom bottleneck . . . can be
least one-and-a-half bathrooms
Owners of older houses complain
of lack of facilities.
Eathroom improvements not
only add comfort to a house, but
80 Per Cent of Homes
Inadequately Lighted
"I couldn't see where I was
going." is the common lament of
household accident victims af
ter they've tumbled down the
stairs, bumped into a door, or
barked their shins on a chair.
Because more than 80 per cent
of this nation's homes are in
adequately lighted, many acci
dents occur in the home!
Falls for instance, account for
more than half of all fatal acci
dents and kill 14,500 persons
annually. Many of these falls
result from poor lighting in
stairways, halls and especially
bedrooms and kitchens, where
most home accidents occur. Poor
lighting should be corrected in
any home improvement project.
To be safe you must see what
you're doing and where you're
going! This requires light and
much more light than the aver
age home today provides.
Prevent accidents in your
home by providing proper light
ing today.
WINDOW DRESS-UPS
You can glamorize your win
dows by adding new valances or
blinds. Plastic, bamboo, alum
inum vertical or horizontal dra
peries are durable, attractive
and come in a wide range of col
corrected by adding a second
complete bathroom, installing a
half-bath, or powder room, or
by making the most of the ex
isting bathing area by partition
ing and adding fixtures.
Cost of Adding
The cost of adding extra plum
bing can be reduced by careful
planning. Locating an extra bath
or powder room as near as pos
sible to the master bath saves
time and money. Putting facili
ties side by side, or placing them
above or under each other re
duces the cost of long runs of
pipe.
In a one-story .house, saving
can be had by installing a pow
der room near the laundry room,
bathroom, or other plumbing. In
a two-story house, it's more eco
nomical to put a second full bath
room alongside, below or above
the master bathroom.
In a new home, the plumbing
can be "roughed-in" in such a
way that additional fixtures can
be installed easily and econom
ically whenever the family needs
them.
Where lack of space is a prob
lem, careful selection of fixtures
will provide a complete bath
room in small areas such as: al
coves, back-to-back closets, or
under a staircase. 1
A half-bathroom or powder
room should be installed near
centers of heaviest traffic flow
in the house. A lavatory design
ed to fit a corner will save space
and add a unique style note to
the powder room.
By building partitions in the
existing bathroom, the full use
fulness of each fixture can be
exploited.
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House More Than 10 Years
Old May Have Poor Wiring
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HEATING PANELS A child relaxes in comfort as heating
, panels circulate warm air around outside walls. Made of durable
copper tube to which sturdy aluminum fins have been bonded,
the panels are installed in place of wood baseboards. They pre
sent no decorating problems, for they match every decor. By
American-Standard.
Here's a Home Improvement
reminder about electrical facts
and figures in your home.
If your house is over ten years
eld, there's a good chance that
it's among the 20,000,000 in the
United States today with inad
equate wiring.
If the lights dim or flicker
when the automatic toaster is
Many New Homes
Have Softeners
prospective home buyers in
known "hard water areas won't
have to worry about this prob
lem, for many of the new homes
will be equipped with water soft
eners. The Water Conditioning Re
search council reports that home
owners can count the savings in
dollars and cents when they use
water softeners. The council says:
"The average amount of hard
ness for water throughout the
United States is ten grains and
just seven grains of hardness
costs the average family of four
S24 more a year in soap."
Hard water also builds up
scale on the inside of water pipes
faster than soft water ever does.
Over a period of time, a quarter
inch of scale could reduce the
flow of water. Water pipes en
crusted with scale become insu
lated and don't deliver heat effi
ciently. A water softener will
help save your fuel bill.
Softened water is a better
cleaner than hard water and is
easier on your clothes. Softening
ten grain water makes a thirty-
five per cent increase in longev
ity for linens.
Home buyers in ' hard water
areas can have their builders ar
range to install water softeners
before they move in, if this has
not already been done.
turned on, and if the bread in
the toastef pops up only half
browned, it's probable that your
wiring is overloaded.
The reason for the overload
today is simple . . . there are
more appliances in use today
than there were ten years ago.
Such things as television sets
were virtually non-existant in
1946. Today there are 33,200,000
of them in use.
Eight Appliances
There are 17,000,000 more
radios in use today. Most homes
today have a minimum of eight
kinds of appliances: radio, TV,
refrigerator, iron, electric clock,
washer, toaster, and vacuum
cleaner.
Put too many of these on one
circuit and, poof, a fuse is
blown!
Many American homes are
chugging along with only thirty
or sixty amperes service. Elec
tricians say that one-hundred
amperes are barely ample.
A thirty ampere entrance ser
vice is one in which a maximum
of 3,600 watts are available in
the house at any one time.
Wattage Rating
The wattage rating of an auto
matic toaster is 1,100 watts, the
hand iron 1,000 watts, coffee
maker 1,000 watts. TV set 300
watts, a broiler, 1,450 watts, a
roaster 1,650 watts and a refrig
erator 300 watts.
Turn most of these on all at
once, also a washing machine
vith 1,200 watts and an auth-
matic ironer with 1,650 watts,
and you may blow another fuse.
Electricians say each electric
circuit in a house should have a
twenty per cent space capacity,
over and above the probable
maximum load.
The cost of rewiring, is sur
prisingly small. If there is any
doubt about the adequacy of
your electrical wiring, have it
checked by an expert now!
NEW BATHROOM The old
bathroom was drab, dark, crowd
ed and lacked style. The re
modeled bathing area shows
modern, cast iron shower and
bath Combination, offering ex
tended rim seat, low sides and
flat bottom to facilitate bathing
New lavatory adds, beauty, has
a wide counter space, roomy
bowl and built-in towel racks.
The sanitary water closet oper
ates quietly. Full use was made
of existing space and storage
shelves were added for conven
ience. Fixturi-American Standard.
Water Heater is
Used Most Often
Do you ever have to forego
the pleasure of a shower when
you want one? Do you have to
plan your housework around
your hot water supply? If so,
then you are putting up' with an
out-dated water heater, some
thing you won't find in the new
homes being shown.
Increasing use of home laun
dry and automatic dish washing
equipment has brought with it a
need for larger size water heat
ers in most homes. Properly sized
tanks large enough to provide
a margin of extra capacity to
meet maximum current as well
as possible future demands.
Water heaters range in size
from 30 to 100 gallons. The size
should be determined by: the
amount of water needed and the
recovery capacity of the heater.
This is the ability of the heater
to replenish hot water as fast as
it is used. With a fast recovery
heater you can use a smaller
tank than you'd imagine.
Many of the new tanks also
offer the advantage of dial con
trols. You'll find a wide choice
of tank materials to suit your
local water supply conditions.
CURVED SURFACE
Despite its strength and concrete-like
composition, asbestos
cement board is sufficiently flex
ible to be used over moderately
curved surfaces. It is a favored
material for arched ceilings, cur
ved walls and other irregular
areas. It comes in large size
sheets that are easy to handle,
cut and nail.
Wednesday, May t, 1937
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
MODERN LIVING MEANS MODERN WIRING
IN THE COPCO SERVICE AREA, USE OF
ELECTRICITY IN THE HOME HAS INCREASED
214 TIMES IN THE PAST JO YEARS.
DOES YOUR HOME WIRING SYSTEM MEET
TODAY'S REQUIREMENTS?
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Home Can Be Made
More Attractive
With Furnishings
One of the most obvious ways
to improve your home and make
it more attractive is with the
furnishings.
.If chair springs are sagging,
upholstery worn-out and nothing
seems to blend, it's apt to upset
the whole emotional harmony of
the family.
Pride of environment is latent
in every person. If home sur
roundings are pleasant, so is his
outlook.
Investing in new furniture is
certainly a reasonable way to
achieve such happiness. Good
quality furnishings are a wise
investment, for they will serve
you for years to come.
New Fabrics
New fabrics, types of stuffing
materials, wood finishes and the
use of plastics and metals have
made flexible, functional fur
nishings that are ideally suited
to modern living.
contemporary styles are so i
functional that they actually
save time and steps for the busy
homemaker.
Drawers in cabinets are di
mensioned and divided so that
storage is simplified.
Headboards offer maximum
utility with reading lights,
books, radio, telephone, drawers
for personal items.
Metal Furnishings
Metal furnishings for patio
and lanai have been lightened
with alloys and painted in gay
hues for style and strength.
Metal furniture is also de
signed for interior use, and is
popular for dining sets, occa
sional chairs and settees. '
If there is a problem area in
your home that you don't know
how to furnish, telephone or
visit your furniture, store. They
will be glad to advise you.
FINGERPRINTS
Flat oil paints are easily fin
ger-marked and are unsatisfac
tory for window sills and door
frames. On woodwork that is
new and that is to be given an
opaque coating, an undercoat is
required. For a finishing coat,
you can use semi-gloss, enamel,
emulsion or rubber-base paints.
Incinerator Answer To Garbage Problem
The ideal answer to the prob
lem of garbage and trash remo
val is a modern, fully automatic
gas incinerator.
These incinerators are smoke
less, odorless and ready to go
work at any hour of the day or
night, regardless of outside
weather conditions.
Some communities consider
incineration so important to
overall health that they have in
cinerator equipment in all the
homes. When unsightly, germ
laden outdoor garbage cans are
eliminated, there are n! rats or
disease-carrying insects to breed
epidemics.
Modern Incinerators minimize
the hazard of fire from burning
trash and garbage. An automatic
incinerator is one of the most
economical appliances on the
market
CANVAS REPAIRS
Cuts or tears in canvas can
be repiared without sewing by
using a new patch saturated
with vinyl resins. These patches
become highly adhesive when
you dip them in a solvent. Ideal
for repairing awnings, sails,
tents, and canvas lawn chairs. .
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