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4 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Saturdey, March 19, 1960 Electrical Power May Be Too Low IF YOU live in an®*older home, | dryers, dishwashers and garbage the chances are good that your |disposal units are no longer con- | available electrical horsepower is | sidered luxuries. well below your needs. You can't lay the blame for ity, this on the builders of the house. Twenty years ago, . folks electricity 'to supply light and stance, was a refrigerator. In the kitchen of a home, you might easily find a dozen electric appliances, each a |; handy work saver for the house- wife. And the number of electric ap- pliances in homes keeps increas- ing. Automatic washers, clothes Floor Depends Cn Subsurface Even the most aristocratic tile design can be no better than its subfloor, Installation of long wearing types of resilient flooring like rubber vinyl should be planned carefully as they can be counted on to keep their good looks for the life of the building with min- imum maintenance. If laid over a smooth subfloor, they will never buckle, curl or splinter. Rough or uneven floors fre- yuently can be made smooth by machine sanding. Small irregu- larities which sanding cannot remedy often can be corrected by use of paiching materials. When the subfloor is wood, it's very important to hammer down and countersink protruding nails with a nail punch. Pay particular attention to patching cracks as | well as holes. Plane or sand any joints that are rough or uneven. When in doubt, it's a wise long | lay a| term investment to new subfloor of plywood or press- ed board. It is usually best to take up old flooring covering and molding entirely. Then clean the floor thoroughly. Make sure to remove all dirt, wax, old paints, grease, etc. Z Most tiles are cemented down with fast setting adhesives to ob- tain smooth floors; they should be rolled immediately before the adhesive sets. According to the Rubber and Vinyl Flooring Coun- cil, each three or four rows should be rolled as they are com- pleted for best resulis. Watch out particularly for joints of adjoining tile which are not even in the finished floor. High and low joints create dirt pockets which are particularly unattractive on light colored tile. THE LONG HAUL The typical mortgage owner takes 27 years to pay off his loan. The original morigage extended when the home-owner borrows additional funds to make home improvements. Bi is often | Air condition- {ing is rapidly gaining popular | | } | | | Proper wiring for little else. The only electric appli- | stallations is necessary to avoid | ance likely in the kitchen, for in- |difficulties such as service | terruptions due modern | circuits and will help assure bet- used | MORE CHANNELS REQUIRED these in- in- | it properly where needed. to overloaded | TWO-W'2E NOT ENOUGH ter operating efficiencies fr o m | electricians give to the wires that each unit. run from the utility pole into the When voliage drop becomes |house. In the old days entrances excessive in the circuit between! were almost invariably two-wire, the fuse box and the appliance one "hot" and one "ground." To or light source because of over- | bring in sufficient power for mod- loading, it results in: poor lighting | ern living and operate any 220- and incii'cient or totally ineffec- | volt appliance, a three-wire serv- tive 'apn'ance operation. A 5 per |ice entrance: is required. Two of cent voltage loss, for example, | these wires are hot, and the third produces a 10 per cent loss | ground. The heavier these wires of heat in any heating appljance | are, the more power they ean and a 17 per cent loss of light | carry. from an incandescent lamp. The incoming electricity is split The usual modernization job up by a 'service panel" which can be divided into two main | divides the power amoung the parts. The first is getting addi- | various circuits. Fuse protection tional power from the electric [is provided on 'both the main utility company into the house. | supply and each individual cir- and the second is distributing | cuit. Frequently in a modernization job, the old lighting circuits can new outlets to service the big appliances that were overloading the old ones, the system can be put back into balance. Electrical modernization is a job for professionals, not ama- teurs. If your home needs it, look up a local electrical contracfor. a QUARRY TILE PATIOS One popular surfacing mate- terial for the increasing number of patios dotting the nation's backyards is quarry tile. 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