Show fa FIRST AID to the AILING HOUSE by ROGER B WHITMAN I 1 roger B whitman features SWEATING OF COLD WATER PIPES CAN BE STOPPED BY JACKETING NE of the troubles which come ONE 0 with warm weather is the dripping from pipes carrying cool water er this his is likely to be the case in a cellar one remedy is to cover the pipes with jackets which will keep warm and damp air out of contact with the cool metal pipe jacketing is on sale at hardware stores and can be had from plumbers and steam stearn fitters it if appearance pe arance need not be considered the same effect can be obtained by wrapping the pipe with tightly twist ed newspaper tied on with string corrugated board also can be used the same principal can be applied to tanks which are chilled by the low temperature of the water within sometimes these can be enclosed in boxes made of insulating board or with insulating cement of the kind used on steam boilers the most difficult problem of the sort is with porcelain flush tanks manufacturers of plumbing fixtures are aware of the situation but have provided no method which would avoid it there seems little else to do except to keep the floor under the tank covered with bath towels which from time to time are wrung out and replaced broken marble table top question I 1 have a small marble top table of which the marble is cracked and broken right through the middle Is there any way I 1 could repair it at home answer A marble tabletop table top is so thin that in mending it a support must be placed underneath you should cut a piece of plasterboard to fit inside the frame of the table as a support for the pieces of marble with this support secured in position it should be covered with a layer of patching plaster to act as a cement the pieces of marble are placed on this and forced tightly together before the plaster dries if any holes remain in the marble they can be filled with ceiling wax of the correct color it if re polishing is needed this can be done with putty powder to be had at a local monument yard cracking paint question when we built our home two years ago we painted the woodwork ourselves with two coats of flat white and one of enamel in two months it began to check and now has checks and cracks all over we would like to repaint this spring but are afraid that the same thing will happen how can we prevent it answer the paint that you used was evidently too hard and brittle to follow the movement of the wood a as s it dried out and seasoned in preparing for repainting ask the advice of the paint manufacturers on the correct method of thinning paint of the first and second coats tor for the kind of wood that is used metal roof paint question what kind of paint should I 1 use on a metal roof that has never been painted and that has a few rusty places answer the roof is apparently apparent lyof of tin for you say that it shows rusty places these should be cleaned off to the bare metal using steel wool or a wire brush wash with turpentine and then finish with red lead paint after at least a week for drying finish with any good quality house paint stoker problem question I 1 have a two story building including stores and six room flats heating is by hot water I 1 am considering putting in a stoker where can I 1 get information on the diff different crent kinds and on their operation ti on answer consult the committee ol of ten of the heating industries at north michigan avenue chicago |