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Contents: Sewing Closets For Your Wife – (Chances are you know several women who need a closet like this, but you’d better build the first one for your wife. A pair of bi-folding doors open wide for easy access to the roomy shelves, drawers and many compartments. And there’s room for the sewing machine and the ironing board. It beats the sewing basket, and you can build it just about anywhere in the house); Install Your Own Garage Door Operator – (Technology brings us lots of conveniences, and here’s one that’ll make your life easier in the wind and snow of winter or in the pouring rain of summer. Pushing a button on the tiny radio transmitter inside your car makes the garage door open and close automatically. Any homeowner can easily install this motorized operator mechanism); Winter Drafts And How To Stop Them – Is everything airtight around you house? Loose windows and doors, broken latches and locks, cracks around the baseboard molding and broken glass will admit the winds of winter unless you do something to prevent it. Here’s advice on where to look for the sources of drafts and what you do when you find them. It’s aimed at regaining the comfort in your home); Reglazing Combination Storm Windows – (Aluminum-framed windows are actually easier to reglaze than those with wooden sash. Our story with photos gives you the step-by-step proof of this fact); Storage Couch For The Family Room – (Somewhere in your home is a wasted wall. Your job is to find it and then put the wall to good use with this built-against couch that doubles as a floor closet. Perfect for the storage of toys, luggage or seasonal items, this handsome piece can be built within a few hours); The Right Way To Use Screwdrivers – (Screwdrivers are the most abused of all common tools, but they needn’t be. Read how to choose the right ones for different jobs and how to use them best); Trouble-Shooting Outdoors – (At no other time during the year is the outside of your home more susceptible to weather damage than in winter. Ice, snow, wind and freezing cold have a bitter way of attacking weak spots in siding, roof shingles, gutters and flashings. Here’s what to do about it); Build Your Own Winter Clothes Closet – (Here’s the perfect answer to storing all of your winter belongings – coats, hats, mittens, boots, rubbers and even ice skates – in one very tidy place); Antique Merchant’s Desk – (We decided to re-feature this story because of the popularity it received when it originally appeared in these pages three years ago. The desk provides ample work and storage space. Generous dimensions make it an ideal accent piece for any large room in your home); Make Your Own Wall Lamps – The author made these custom, professional-looking lamps for about $12 each, and you can do the same. Interior shutters and frosted glass are the main ingredients); New Products For Old Problems – (Our regular column of pictures and paragraphs on a wide-range of new and interesting items for the handyman. This month’s new product pages feature a cordless soldering iron, a grounded circuit tester, a door kit, a tapeless tape measure and more); Editors’ Tests – (Evaluation reports by our editors who undertake regular field tests on new tools and products for the home, garden and workshop. Selected for February were a warm air furnace humidifier, a multiple hole drill bit and an electronic digital alarm clock kit that anyone can make); Ask Handyman Q & A – (A column devoted to problems sent in by our readers. This month our technical editor paid special attention to questions about improperly hung gutters, building a soundproof floor, using a coping saw properly, sluggish basement drains, exhaust fans and other topics); Booklets You Should Know About – (Literature from manufacturers in pamphlet or leaflet form of certain interest to do-it-yourselfers); Tips You Should Know About – (Learn from homeowners like yourself how to save time, money and material on those around-the-house projects); What It’s Called And Where To Buy It – (Names and addresses of companies who make or sell the products mentioned in our feature articles); Home Maintenance Index – (Our cumulative maintenance and repair index will lead you to the right issue and page for those needed facts)
Issue: February 1973
Condition: Very Good