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Contents: Home Maintenance And Improvement – Use Cedar Shingles To Beautify An Interior Wall (Specially prepared 4-foot shingle strips provide unusual textured surface for accent walls – and installation is easy); Installing Pre-Grouted Ceramic Tile Is Easy (This packaged bathtub surround kit is made especially for installation by the do-it-yourselfer); Are Your Things Oil Right? (Proper lubrication of your household tools and machinery is quick and easy and will save you a big repair bill); Plant Bulbs In The Fall For Spring Flowers (With only a little bit of digging now daffodils, hyacinths, tulips and smaller bulbs will bloom in a riot of colors and fragrance next year); Problem: Wet Basement – Part 2 (A survey of the main causes and what you can do about them); Emergency Cut-Off Valves – Where Are Yours? (How to locate and identify the different valves that shut off gas or water lines in your house); Ask Handyman – Your Questions Answered (Here are time, money and effort saving ideas to help out all around the house. Some of those included this month are:) Attic Ventilation, Bar Addition, Re-Roofing, Cold Floors, Aluminum Wiring, Laying Bathroom Tiles 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 are:) Power Bit Screw, Carpet Tiles, Cable & Chain Oil, Decorative Brick, “Add On” Insulation, Compost Shredder; Editors Tests (Evaluation reports by our editors who test new tools and products for home, garden and workshop. Featured this month are:) New Type Paint Brush, Two-Speed Saber Saw, Anti-Rust Liquid; Tips You Should Know About (A wide range of ideas sent in by readers that should prove useful in anyone tackling decorating, repair and building jobs indoors and outdoors. Some of the tips covered this month include:) Cleaning Hints, Basement Insulation, Sliding Furniture, Handy Magnet, Saw Tricks, Charcoal Starter; Answers To Most Asked Garden Questions (Here you’ll find questions on house plants, spring and summer bulbs, perennials, annuals, fruits and trees and shrubs. Solutions this month include:) Transplanting Lilies, Sweet Potatoes All Year, Indoor Lemons, Window Greenhouses, Climbing Roses, Protecting Pansies Departments – Booklets You Should Know About (Literature from manufacturers in pamphlet or leaflet form of certain interest to do-it-yourselfers); What It’s Called And Where To Buy It (Buyer’s guide to companies who make or sell the products mentioned in our featured articles); Complete Home Maintenance Repairs (Ready reference to the 9 previous issues)
Issue: October 1974
Condition: Very Good