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Contents: Home Maintenance And Improvement – Closet-Bunk Combination Saves Space (Compact and good-looking, this project is quite easy to build, provides ample storage area, and is very convenient to use); Decorative Brick Planters Are Easy To Make (You don’t need to be a mason to build these attractive outdoor furnishings for your home and your garden); Mid-Summer Garden Care (How to keep your lawn, flowers and vegetables at their best during the hot and sometimes dry months of mid- and late summer); Summer Lawnmower Checkup (A day spent cleaning, tightening and adjusting makes an enormous difference in the efficiency of your mower and helps prevent major repairs); Turbine Roof Fans Save Energy And Keep Your House Cool (Wind-driven coolers require no electricity and relieve your air conditioner of its heavy summer load); The Great Tile Stick Up (Self-sticking and made especially for the do-it-youselfer, these ceramic tiles are marvelously easy to apply, with no messy cleanup afterwards); Make Your Own “Cut Stones” For Wall Decoration (It sounds impossible, but this homeowner tells how to do it at one-tenth of contractor estimates by using ordinary plaster and rubber molds) Ask Handyman – Your Questions Answered – Here are time, money and effort saving ideas to help you all around the house. Some of these included this month are: Dropped Ceiling; Replacing Leaded Glass; Sliding Drapery Panels; Making Puzzles Feature Columns – New Products For Old Problems – Our regular column of pictures and paragraphs on a wide range of new and interesting items for the handyman. Some products featured include: Tomato Plant Food; Knife Sharpener; Pocket Metric Converter; Parquet Flooring; Versatile Air Compressor; Asphalt Roofing Shingles Editors’ Tests – Evaluation tests by our editors who test new tools and products for home, garden and workshop. Featured this month are: Two Electric Mowers – One rear bagger with rigid grasscatcher, the other with twin blades; High Speed Sander – Light duty and doesn’t leave any swirl marks Tips You Should Know About – A wide range of ideas sent in by readers that should prove useful to anyone tackling decorating, repair and building jobs indoors and outdoors. Some of the tips covered this month include: Barrelbolt Improvement; Save The Glass; Rubber Swings Are Safe; Miniature Greenhouse; Improving Redwood Posts; Caulking Tube Stopper Answers To Most Asked Garden Questions – Here you’ll find questions and answers on lawns, fruits, summer bulbs, perennials, annuals, and trees and shrubs. Solutions this month include: New Lawns In Fall; Clinch Bugs; Small Bulbs On Lilies; Rhododendrons That Haven’t Flowered; Unisexual Vines; Portulaca Blooms Close Early Departments – Booklets You Should Know About; What Its Called And Where To Buy It; Complete Home Maintenance Index
Issue: August 1974
Condition: Very Good