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Show Steel Bridging Does Away With Wood Type In line with the modern trend toward speed and security in building methods is an innovation in the form of steel bridging designed to supplant the old-fashioned old-fashioned wooden cross-bridging. It does away with the cutting and fitting necessary with wooden bridging, bridg-ing, makes a neater and more permanent perma-nent Job, and enables the latter to be done In a fraction of the time and with half the number of nails. Only two steps are required in using this steel bridging; a twist spreads It apart in the form of an X, and it is then fastened to the Joists by means of four nails. The bridging is made of heavy steel in a single piece, flanged, ribbed and painted. It has the added advantage of always remaining tight, since steel cannot warp, shrink or split. Another advantage that it possesses over wood is that It leaves more space between Joists for pipes, etc. the ages, the first concern, the vital essential es-sential of home has been shelter protection pro-tection against the winds and cold, the snow, rain and heat. This is the primitive principle of protection the age-old reason for home building. And though it is now hidden away In the walls and roofs of houses, concealed and subdued by the beauties of architecture, conveniences of arrangement, and the niceties of interior in-terior decoration, this matter of protection pro-tection against heat and cold has lost none of its potency. Houses, to be truly homes, must be comfortable. They must be so built that the winter cold and the summer heat will be kept out, so that fuel bills will be reasonable and the cost of heating heat-ing equipment not exorbitant. Houses In which these vital matters are overlooked over-looked are no more homes today than In years gone by. You see them "heartbreak houses," someone has called them for sale every day. All the time and money, all the thought and care that was put Into them has been wasted, thrown away, because the vital matter of comfort com-fort was overlooked. You should Insulate In-sulate your home. |