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Contents: Special Features – Groovy Attic Pad (If you have attic space that you have been thinking about converting into pleasant rooms for some of your teenagers, you’ll find this a particularly interesting article. Shown here, complete with floor plan and helpful pictures, are the methods and materials used to create a combined bedroom, study and playroom for two teenage boys with ceiling, walls and floor that can be cleaned with nothing more than a damp mop); Resilient Flooring (Here’s a big six-page feature that gives you complete information on the different kinds of resilient flooring including asphalt, vinyl asbestos and pure vinyl tile as well as the different types of vinyl sheet. Facts covered include durability, prices, maintenance and where you may and may not install various kinds of flooring. One picture sequence tells you how to install tile, Another shows you how to lay sheet flooring and a chart at the end sums up all the information you need to know about resilient flooring); Merchant’s Desk (If you like Early American furniture, you’ll find this old time mercantile desk a lovely piece to copy. Complete specifications, measurements and simplified plans will make this fine old piece easy for you to make); Prefab Showers (Unusual circular shower stall which can be assembled from a kit and installed in one day. Picture sequence and text gives you all the facts on how this attractive and colorful shower was put together); Fail-Safe Home Alarm (You can assemble this electronic kit in three evenings and enjoy the benefits of a remarkably versatile instrument that can be used as a fire alarm and smoke detector. Add the right gadgets and it will act as a burglar alarm, warn you of either cellar floods or tell you when your freezer is out of action); Mid-Winter Maintenance (Easy-to-understand instructions on how to keep your snowblower in good shape this winter, what to do about squeaky floors and how to restore the finish on an appliance); Chalkboard Desk (A wonderfully simple yet useful child’s desk which can be hung on a wall out of the way. When closed it’s a chalkboard. Open it and it’s a handy little desk with stacks for paper, pencils and crayons. And it’s very easy to make); An Automatic Light For Your Closet (If you are awfully tired of fishing around in a dark closet for the clothes you want. Try this inexpensive lilght which goes on when you open the door and goes out when it’s closed. Here are all the facts on this very simple installation) Departments – New Products For Old Problems; Editors’ Tests; Garden Q & A; Nuts And Bolts; Frauds You Should Know About; Shop Talk With The Publisher; Booklets You Should Know About; Appliance Repair; Ask Handyman Q & A; What It’s Called And Where To Buy It; Market Place; Index To Six Previous Issues
Issue: February 1969
Condition: Very Good