Evening star., 1940-08-24
Compact Boiler Unit
Designed for Use
In Small Houses
Looks as Much at Home
In the Kitchen as
A Refrigerator
By DOROTHY DUCAS and
ELIZABETH GORDON,


Basementless houses, about which
we hear so much nowadays, do not
even have to have utility rooms now.
You can put your heater in the
kitchen, where it not only will look
we'll but will act as a radiator in
itself!
A compact. well proportioned
boiler unit, providing automatic hot
water radiant radiator heat and a
year-round supply of hot water, has
been introduced which looks just
as much at home in the kitchen as a
mechanical refrigerator. 1t stands
about three and one-third feet high
in a jade green housing that can
furnish the color note for an all
white or cream -colored kitchen.
With a metal kitchen cabinet above
1t, it's no more in the way than a
couple of small tables.
The unit is designed for small
houses-up to six or perhaps seven
rooms-and may be fueled with oil
or gas Its boiler employs what is
known as wet base construction,
which means that the base, top and
sides of the firing chamber are sur
rounded by water, which captures
the heat rapidly and puts it to work.
The chamber itself is installed COM
pletely before the boiler leaves the
factory. making for simpler and
faster installation.
A complete set of controls, includ-
ing room thermostat, boiler aqua
state and stack safety burner con-
troll comes as standard equipment
with this unit Built-in equipment
for hot water is feature not to be
overlooked, too.
OF course, you don't have to in
stall the heater in the kitchen. If
YOU have a basement. 1t would look
lust as colorful and offer just as
much radiating surface in the base
ment recreation room, where little
heat is a mighty good thing in win
ter. even during strenuous billiard
game.
Back Yard Grille.
It's not too late to have an out
door grill for use the balance of the
summer and on into the crisp days
of autumn which. believe it or not,
lie lust ahead. Willing hands in
your family plus the purchase of
metal grill for $3.50 may mean
permanent picnic grounds in your
back yard in the space of one week
end.
The metal grill we have in mind
has a cooking surface % inches long
and 1872 inches wide, with the top
divided into an open crate for broil-
ing and a solid piece for keeping
dishes and kettles warm without
blackening them. 1t is made OF
cast iron. with the fire CRATE in II
pieces, so that if one portion be-
comes burned out 1t may be re-
placed without disturbing the rest
of the CRATE.
Around this metal portion you can
build brick or feldstone inclosure
yourself. The makers of the grill
say it can be done with rs common
bricks and half a sack of cement
at total cost for materials of about
$3.50 If you build the Enclosure OF
fieldstone, picked up on your country
place, the only cost is about 40
cents for the cement. OF course,
If you aren't handy-or If you're just
plain lazy-you1l have to figure In
the cost of a mason's time.
This outdoor fireplace unit is espe-
cially adapted for charcoal, but
works we'll with wood or coal. All
parts, except the door frame, are
removable for winter storage. Get
going now and you'll have plenty
of outdoor cooking fun before the
snow flies.