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Show FIRST AID 73s---Or ' 1 by Roeer C. Whitman a fireplace in the house, the smoky odor may come from there. Wai there ever a fire in the house? QUESTION: My walls are covered cov-ered with a very poor quality of wallboard, which bulges here and there. It is covered with paper;, but now shows a few cracks, which developed after the furnace was started. What is the best thing to do with the walls? The expense is an item; I'll have to have someone some-one do all the work. ANSWER: For a good job it would be better to take off the board and replace it with one of better quality, properly put up according ac-cording to the manufacturer's instructions; in-structions; or else nail up new boards over the old ones. In the meantime, you might consider nailing down the bulges as well as you can, and then covering the joints with strips of decorative wood moulding, such as half-round. QUESTION: The walls of our new home are all pastel-colored, rough-finished plaster. Now "five o'clock shadow" is beginning to Bhow around our high-wall registers. reg-isters. Our oil furnace has filters for the blower but, nevertheless, the soot on two walls looks black. How can I remove this grime and prevent a recurrence? ANSWER: To clean the walls, first remove as much loose dirt as you can by light brushing, and follow by cleaning with a wallpaper wall-paper cleaner. The niters probably prob-ably are loaded down with dust and may need cleaning, if they are of the cleanable variety. If not, they may need to be replaced. QUESTION: The linoleum in our kitchen has risen up in a certain spot. It is inlaid linoleum over a ifelt base over plywood. Do you think if we bored a small hole in the linoleum and poured some kind of cement in, it would hold? What kind of cement would you recommend recom-mend for this job? ANSWER: Try this method for flattening the bulge: Cut a slit in the bulge, following a line of the pattern so that it will not show. !Then press linoleum cement under each side of the slit, working it well underneath with a spatula, or some similar tool. Wipe off surface sur-face smears promptly. If you cannot can-not get linoleum cement, use roof-:ing roof-:ing cement. Smears of roofing 1 cement should be promptly wiped joff with turpentine. Then place , weights on top until the cement has dried hard. QUESTION: We bought an elder-;ly elder-;ly house, which smells smoky. On jwet days in winter the smoke odor lis more noticeable. We have a gas I burner in a steam furnace. Is the : cause of the odor a dirty chimney? If so, would soot remover do any good? ANSWER: The chimney most probably needs a thorough cleaning. clean-ing. A soot-removing preparation might help to remove some of the odor in the lower part of the chimney; chim-ney; try it and see if it destroys the smell. If not, you had better call in a professional chimney cleaner to give the chimney a thorough thor-ough cleaning. He will know how to do the work. It is an extremely dirty job that I do not think you could handle yourself. If there is |