Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-09-09 | Page 4 | So You're Going to Build this will Help You

So You're Going to Build--This Will Help You NEW YORK Are you only a wishful thinker about building that home of your own or are you consciously preparing yourself your-self to be an intelligent home owner? The Information below, approv-' ed by Otto Teegan, coordinating architect of the Town of Tomorrow, Tomor-row, will - be helpful when you get ready to build. In the Town of Tomorrow at the New York World's Fair are fifteen variously priced demonstration demon-stration homes showing the use of many kinds of building materials. No trade names are used In the answers. Processed materials are designated by names which describe de-scribe the type of product rather than a trade marked version of It. With how many of the following follow-ing standard building materials are you familiar? QuMtleaa 1. What la plywood? How Is It aar4 In home construction t. Waal Is aaheetos shingle? Asphalt shingle? What ar their . What Is cement Mock cosset coss-et ruction? 4. What i a built-up roof and what materials are widely used for It? S. What type materials are aaed foe "dry-built" Interior wails? Asaweis 1. Plywood consists of laminated lamin-ated sheets of the same or various vari-ous woods pressed together with water-resistant " glue which contains con-tains resin and casein, under terrific ter-rific hydraulic pressure. Warping Warp-ing and splitting are minimized by alternating the direction of the grain. It Is a relatively Inexpensive In-expensive structural material of soft texture and light weight, having extrordinary strength, and is used as finished Interior and exterior surface for wall or roof sheathing, finished ceilings, doors built-in furniture, etcetera. Plywood Ply-wood for exterior Is heavier and 1 processed to make it water-repellent water-repellent It can be waxed, painted, stained or left to weather. t. Aabwatos shingle Is a machine-fabricated material in which asbestos fibre and Portland cement ce-ment are united under heavy hydraulic pressure. It is strong, light, elastic, fireproof and weather-resistant. Asbestos shingle Is a composition treated with asphalt as-phalt saturant and surfaced in a variety of ways, frequently with mineral granule which lncreas its weather-resistance. Both asbestos as-bestos shingle and asphalt shingle, while primary roofings, can also be used as wall surfaces. Both materials are applied over sheathing. sheath-ing. I. Cement Mock units ar commonly com-monly composed of cinders (residue (res-idue of burnt coal) or slag (dross of metal). When used a structural struc-tural bearing walls to take heavy loads they ar usually mad of concrete. 4. A built-up roof Is on formed by first covering the surface of the roof with dry felt or paper and over this laying three or more layer ot tarred or asphaltlc felt, each layer lapping th other like shingles with from six to ten inches of each layer exposed. The exposed layers ar then spread with a coat of pitch and crushed slag or gravel or other surfacing material is Imbedded. 5. Dry-built Interior walls ar those on which no water is used, as would be necessary with the application of plaster. Materials used for this type of finish include wallboard. gypsum board, plywood, wood boarding and many manufactured manu-factured machine-mad board. . .