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Show Home Magazii;.(THp;DAJLY( Page 16 HERALD. Friday. January 22, I'm Innovative kit makes it easier to put in pocket doors By ALAN J. HEAVENS Knight Raider Newspapers Uncle Adam loved listening to the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts on Saturday afternoons. I would join him on occasion, whenever my parents ventured across town for a visit to his rambling Victorian house in the east end of Waterbury, Conn. Not that I loved opera as much as he, but I enjoyed watching him as he sat in his big stuffed chair, feet propped on the 'ottoman, humming from time to , time, reaching over every once in a while to insert a quarter in the little cowlick-createdepression in my hair that he, in his thick Florentine accent, called a "boid-s- a nesta." Before the festivities began, however, Uncle Adam would close the pocket doors that divided the sitting room from the living room, because no one else in the house shared his love of opera. . I've always wanted pocket doors, but the houses I've owned just wouldn't accommodate them. They need to disappear into a wall, you see, and the only suitable opening would require substantial rebuilding for the jdea to work. d Get the kit kit works with 18 to 1 34 inches thick and weighing up to 125 The door-fram- all doors pounds. e 1 Heavy-dut- y g hangers are available for sliding doors up to 200 pounds. The frame is designed to prevent problems traditionally associated with a door in the wall, problems that would require you to break into the wall to fix the door mechanism. The track's box shape and convex rails make it impossible for hanger wheels to jump off. Special keyhole slots allow you to remove the track easily, without removing the wall. And the hanger-clip system allows you to remove the door for painting or staining after' the drywall and trim are in place. The door frame also has anchprs that allow the floor to settle without throwing the header and tracks out of alignment. The frame also is clad with steel sides and back plating, which prevents drywall nails or screws from penetrating the stud and scratching the The frame can be installed with basic hand tools. The manufacturer says a carpenter can install the frame in about 10 minutes. For information call, (800) visit them on the web: . zinc-coate- d t, dr. 81)7-566- http:www.john son hard-ware.co- If you do have a suitable spot, L.E. Johnson Products Inc. has a For concrete floors kit that fits doors up to five feet wide by nine feet high. The suggested retail price for two-foframe and three-foo- t widths ranges from $68 to $75. this is Doors are not included just the frame for the doors. EpoxyShield is designed for use on garage floors. But the floor of my workshop is just as bad as any concrete garage floor, and I can just as easily slip on grease and slide into a running table saw as I could slip on an oily garage floor. pocket-door-fram- e So I've now got the workshop floor around. best-lookin- g finish chips create a terrazzo-likon the floor. You can walk on the coated floor in just four hours and drive on it in seven days, if you can figure how I can get the car in the basement without doing a heck of lot of damage. The coating is manufactured Inc., of Pontiac, by Epoxi-Tec- EpoxyShield is an industrial-strengtwaterborne coating that can be applied easily to a concrete floor. It comes with a three-yea- r warranty. Each kit costs about $60 and will cover 250 square feet. Only one coat is required, and a degreaser is included in the kit. To prepare the floor, you sweep it, then scrub it with the degreaser. If the floor already has been painted, as mine had been several times, you only have to remove any loose paint chips. If it is a new concrete floor, it needs to cure for 48 hours before applying the coating. What to do The two-paepoxy coating comes in separate cans, which are mixed in a bucket, then allowed to stand for 30 minutes. Using a brush or an edger, apply a thin, even coat of the mix to areas that a roller won't reach. Then you apply the coating with a short-na- p roller, also applying a thin, even coat. It's easier when you work in sections, until the entire surface is covered. Once the coating, which comes in tan or gray, is applied, you can surface sprinkle the still-we- t nonskid with chips, included in the kit. The rt h Mich. For more information, (888) call 683-566- mat If you don't feel like coating the garage floor but you also don't want the floor to look like a service station, check into the Abzorb Oil Mat, manufactured by PCI Products, of Chino Hills, under your car's engine, and it will soak up more than a gallon of oil and other automobile fluids over time. According to the manufacturmat is made er, the charcoal-graof materials similar to those used to clean up oil ? p ills on the ocean. The mat will not tear or disintegrate even after becoming saturated and is guaranteed for three years. The mat comes in two sizes: 3 feet by 3 feet for $15.95, and 3 feet by 5 feet for $19.95. For information and ordering, call (800) or y 869-963- 3 " One-Wip- was. My advice: Eliminate the middleman and call the company direct at (800) 253-395- Write to Alan J. Heavens, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Box 8263, Philadelphia,PA 19101, or send to aheavensphillynews.com ' 2C3 N. 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