Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-31
Ready-to-As
Incinerator Useful in
Country Houses
Device for Garbage
Disposal Con Be Made
At Cost of $3.50
BY DOROTHY DUCAS and
ELIZABETH GORDON.

OF the summer. Unless you live
along a municipal route, you have
to make private arrangements fol
burning or otherwise destroying
leftover food, trash and dirt
Therefore, while there still is time
why not build an outdoor inciner-
ator?
1t is not difficult to set up con-
erete-block incinerator yourself
without hiring anybody to help you
If you start by getting all the mate
rails complete with plans, specif1ca-
tons and instructions from one
source. There is company which
furnishes equipment, including
hopper, CRATE assembly, spark
arrestor hood, all cast iron, suspen-
sion irons, even nuts and bolts, plus
refractory cement and green &C.
ment paint for exterior finish. It
costs $3.50 for everything.
To make the incinerator, you will
have to buy either concrete blocks
or bricks for a foundation, and
some sand and cement, but these
come to only 81, say the makers of
the incinerator equipment. And it
Is easy to do the job yourself. just
make a base or foundation a by So
inches, mark off the base as shown
In the instruction sheet that comes
with the equipment, and lay the
concrete blocks in their proper
courses alternately with the cast
iron parts of the incinerator.
Capacity Of Four Bushels.
The incinerator has a capacity of
four bushels, which is ample for the
average family if burnings are made
two or three times a week. The
hopper opening is 1871 inches
square, with an ashpit 10 by Is
inches.
A handy little gadget to make
painting less messy for the anna
teur has come to our desk. 1t is a
metal paint-can protector, intend
ed to be used on the top of gal
lon or quart paint can while you
are dipping your brush into the
paint and applying it to walls or
furniture.
You know how you wipe the
brush along the sides of the can
before each stroke? Well, you wipe
1t on the wiping-bar of the pro-
tector instead-and as result
there is no thick rim of dry or half
dry paint in the groove on the
edge of the can when you close it.
You can make an alright closing
with the original can lid. thus
preserving the leftover paint for
the next job.
The plate of the protector has a
wide edge on one side to facilitate
pouring and to prevent the paint
from running into the lid groove
or down the sides of the can. The
Wiping-bar also serves as a rest
for the brush, and a small bar pro-
vides an opening to keep the STIR
ring paddle convenient.
The paint-can protector costs
only 10 cents. It's a neat trick. we
think, and typical of how simple it
Is to avoid nuisance and waste
merely by looking ahead and
spending few cents.
Asphalt Coated Sheathing.
The subject of moisture pene-
tation into the walls of homes has
had so much attention in recent
years that it is no surprise to see
how many houses being built are
turning a black face to the world
before their siding is APPLIED.
The black is asphalt, of course.
It is applied to the sheathing of a
house, which is the structural COW
ering nailed to the studs before
siding is placed on the exterior and
lath and plaster or wallboard on the
Interior. Asphalt is great stopper
Of moisture. With asphalt on both
sides of sheathing, artifcially pro-
duced indoor humidity is stopped.
and outdoor moisture is prevented
rom passing through walls.
You can buy sheathing already
coated with asphalt. The special
kind we have in mind is made of
insulating board that serves the
double purpose of making a tight
wall and reducing the passage of
neat through the walls. This
is completely covered
with high-grade black asphalt, on
both sides and on all edges. 1t
comes in large units, 1882 of an
inch thick, and In quickly applied.
Two types are available. One is
FOR vertical application and has
square joints. It's bracing strength
Is said to be equal to that of dag
onally applied wood sheathing,
which Is stronger than horizontally
or vertically applied sheathing.
These panels come in 4x8, 4x9, 4x10
and 4x12-foot panels, and are all
marked for mailing.
The other type is for horizontal
on the studs, and is
said to be equal in strength to ordi-
nary horizontal wood sheathing.
1t has a special v joint, making
for tight fit between panels, de-
signed to reduce the possible in
filtration of air, dust or moisture.
Asphalt-coated sheathing for
either vertical or horizontal appn-
cation costs from 6 to 8 cents a
square foot. BY using it you get
the "extras" of insulation and mois-
ture protection. besides the essen
tial function of structural rigidity.
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Note: For further information
about any of the products de-
scribed above, write Misses Ducas
and Gordon, in case of The Star,
and include stamped, self-ad-
dressed envelope.
Nicaragua fears a great invasion
of grasshoppers.