The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-29
REAL ESTATE AND BUSINESS ACTIVITY

pumping the water into the tank is by
an electric motor with an automatic
control. When the water gets down TO
low pressure the motor starts up auto
stops. requiring no attention except to
keep 1t thoroughly fabricated.
All modern homes are provided with
summer heaters, which are kept going
Whenever the heating plant is not be-
ing used in heating the water for do
nestle purposes, One OF the latest
bathroom arranged so that it can be
disconnected from the heating plant by
a shut-otf valve In the basement and
connected with a summer heater by
ton pipe. In this way. by opening up
another valve on the radiator In the
any time that little heat is required
In this room when Il would not be re-
quired in the rest of the house,
Don't Gid the Radiator.
While speaking OF radiators It Is no
longer considered the best taste to Gid
the woodwork IN the room in which they
are located. The risers or pipes extend
ing from floor 10 floor are painted 70
match the wall decorations. This is
done with the object of making them
as lnconspicuous as possible. Radiators
never look well no matter where they
are put. and to bronze them a bright
gold only makes them more conspicuous.
In the bathroom where the wood work
is white the radiator should be painted
white. Sometimes In bathrooms and
other rooms enameled white. the radi-
ators are given a silver or aluminium
bronze. which matches we'll with the
white woodwork. II the radiator stands
against an oak or maple wainscotng.
II should not be only painted. but grained
TO match the wainscotlng as close as an
artistic painter can do so.
Keeping Mice Out,
Mice sometimes get into clothing after
IL has been put down the clothes chute
In the basement. To overcome this In
vaniEed Iron lined box. with n lid, at the
base OF the clothes chute.
The modern way OF supplying fresh
air to n home in the winter time is to
provide what is known as an indirect
radiator. This is large radiator placed
in n galvanized iron box under the floor
with a register in the floor above II. An
open fresh airduct IS carried from the
galvanized iron box through the founda-
tion wall 10 the outside air, The rising
OF the heat from the radiator causes sue
ton which brings in the fresh air and
forces 1t through the radiator After
II has passel through the radiator II goes
into the room warm but fresh. One
good sized indirect radiator in central
are proper outlets for eXhaus,s in the
wav of base board rentilators or fire.
places.
The Metal Weather Strips.
a great deal OF cold air carrying with
it SCOT and dirt gets in around the
closed windows in the winter time un-
less the sash are provided with what
is known as metal weather strips. These
consist of thin. protrudng. galvanized
rails, fastened 10 the frame and project
ing into the sash, thereby making
check that prevents a passage of air be-
tween the frame and the sash, 1t has
been shown that they take the place OF
the oldfashioned storm windows and are
left on the year around.
Metal frame screens are now being
put on a great many modern homes.
the economy in using them having been
demonstrated. They do not sag out OF
half screens are provided they can be slid
up or down at will and can always be
removed from the inside In order to
wash the windows at any time,
Composition floors have been used In
Germany and some cities In other parts
of Europe for many years. but owing 10
the expense of transportation they have
been little known in this country until
the last year or two. when several Ameri-
can concerns have taken up the manu-
facture Of the materials OF which compo-
sition floors are made and they are now
coming into general use.
A composition floor is put on in the
same manner as plastering over any firm
base and when finished is a smooth, hard
sired Cove base boards are run along
the wall at the same time, there being
no crack between the Dashboard and the
floor for the dirt TO get into. Above
this. wainscotinCs are sometimes made
OF the same composition.
The material comes In pottery form.
similar 10 cement in appearance. II Is
then mixed with certain acids and then
applied by a mason. being smoothed
down in a manner quite similar to put
ting plaster on the wall. When applied
over wood floor base II should be re-
inforced with something in the nature of
nfa1 ch n hn1 lsr,
we'll and overcome any settling of the
floor which would. without reinforcing
crack the surface of the composition
floor. The cost is about half the price
OF marble tile flooring and but little
more than a first-class finished wood
floor. Ii can be used for stairs treads
and raisers and in fact moulded into any
shape for any purpose desired.