| Show 0 I 1 I 1 ad TO LING HOUSE I 1 I 1 by ROGER B S WHITMAN 1 0 DULL DOOR KNOBS TWO WO years ago a colonial house was built in my neighborhood small but very charming in design and appearance it was quickly bought and occupied the new mistress was very proud of it and tried to keep it in its new condition but inevitably it began to deteriorate one thing that greatly troubled her was the appearance of the hardware of the front door the door knob and its plate the push button and the knocker when new these were shiny brass and weekly polishing was part of the house mistress schedule after a year or so however she found that the ameial metal no longer responded A glance was enough to show that the brass did not go all the way through that it was only on the surface the body ot of the hardware was steel and was exposed as polishing took off the brass plating the builder saved a little money for himself in using brass plated b steel eel instead of solid brass although at the most it could not have been more than a dollar or two my advice was to replace the cheap metal with other pieces of solid brass which could be had at any well stocked hardware stole stoic one disadvantage of steel hardware is that in time the paint around it becomes stained with rusty drip with solid brass this does not occur PAINT ON WINDOW SILLS window sills and the rest of the inside trim around a window are usually finished with the same kind of paint that is used on the walls and other parts of a room this inside paint is not intended to be exposed to weather yet when a window is open the window sills are no better protected then if they were outdoors for this reason it is paint on the inside window sills that first becomes damaged for protection window sill paint and the paint on other nearby parts of a window can be given a coat of spar varnish this of course is glossy but even so it is better than the cracking peeling and even disappearance of the paint by roger B whitman service |
