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Show Tgf House Magazine, THK DAILY HERALD, THday, Juh- - 5, 1996 I Registers help bala nee foom vemDeraiiures J H I Q: I want to replace my old discolored rusty floor registers with new decorative brass or wood ones. They must have good air flow adjusters because not all of our rooms stay cool enough. What H. W. types are best? Sensible Home becoming increasingly popular in contemporary homes. These are often made of unfinished solid oak for custom staining. "Rush" styles fit level with a hardwood floor surface. These are slightly oversized to fit over a standard metal register with adjustable louvers. instalFor simple lation, choose a "drop-on- " design. These are available for carpeting or hard flooring. An extra wide edge covers uneven openings that most end up sawing. For someone on a tight budget, new low-cosnap-i- n plastic registers are attractive and efficient. The plastic louver slide is designed to give precise control over the amount of air flowing out of the register. Several plastic designs use thin scented or washable filters built into the register. This filter helps to catch any dirt that gets past the furnace filter. The filter can be cleaned without removing the entire register. To balance the room temperatures, first try adjusting the louvers in your registers to regulate the amount of cool air going to each room. If this does help, try adjusting the dampers in the main branch ducts. Installing an auxiliary fan in the duct leading to the warm room helps. There are many designs to fit any duct size or shape. They come on when the air conditioner self-rimmi- st James Dulley A: It is not uncommon to have or difficulty heating all the rooms evenly. Installing new floor registers, with effective adjustable air louvers, will help to even out the room temperatures. The most elegantly designed registers are made from solid brass, iron or aluminum castings. These are highly polished and finished with a tough epoxy or baked lacquer finish. One solid metal register, by Reggio, uses a decorative inner circle section as the adjuster for the air control louvers. These solid metal registers weigh from three to fifteen pounds and last a lifetime. Natural wood registers are high-quali- ty blower starts. A or floor register helps distribute the air more evenly throughout your home too. A register fan is a simple option. It mounts over a register and draws more cool air to the problem room. It has a built-i- n thermostat and automatic controls to operate in either a summer or winter mode. Write for Update Bulletin No. 699 showing a buyer's guide of 20 manufacturers of auxiliary duct, wall, floor and register fans and new decorative wood, solid brass and plastic adjustable registers, size ranges, colors and options. Please include $2.00 and a business-size SASE. James Dulley, The Daily Herald, 6906 Royalgreen Dr., Cincinnati, OH 45244 i , Solid natural red oak wood . Highly polished decorative solid brass for some time. High-en- d home and garden catalogs teem with them. Design Toscano an Arlington Heights, sells III., mail-ordcompany of cow not only its Grow-Goyl- e er A: I worked for many years as an engineer at a sheet metal fabricator and have run into every sheet metal problem. Try drilling the sheet metal with a drill press and with the sheet fixed down to the table or a piece of wood. When using a hand drill, you most often get a burr. Don't file it. The hole will get too big or you'll y registers have tight sealing High-qualit- adjustable louvers Easy-to-insta- auxiliary tan kit for rectangular air ducts Auxiliary fan sized for any round duct Attractive registers help balance room temperatures scratch the galvanized surface. Put a slotted round head screw in the 373-645- 0 1; ri J, j Provo Now Selling Phase III I. 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Tovmlfe opes manure for fertilizer, but also a Gargoyle Geyser lawn sprinkler, a Florentine Gargoyle Bird House; and a reproduction Colossal Howling Beast from the Grand Palais in Brussels. Formidable! J fl have built-i- n scented air filter Q: I am planning to buiid a small solar heater for my backyard worksbed next fall. I will use sheet metal for the collector. Whenever I drill a hole, it leaves a nasty burr. D. A. What can I do? THE DAILY HERALD CLASSIFIEDS I Plastic registers VN Disney presents an ugly buisness Disney's new cartoon version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" may introduce your children to gargoyles. But the ugly truth is they've been hot home decorating items "i through-the-wa- ll HOMES 7 Hi 763-883- 3 377-040- 0 oraoaiUMiff Marketed Exlusively thru ASPEN REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT, LC. y-i- 11 (or 0 377-040- 0 |