Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1940, Page 28

REAL EBTATE. Enamel That Dries In Hour Available In 20 Colors New Motorized Spray Guns Save Lot of Time In Painting Walls By DOROTHY DUCAS and * ELIZABETH GORDON. 8peed {s the keynote of American life, or so we have been told so often that we all believe it. It certainly is the keynote of domestic tasks, any- way, in everything from house cleaning and cooking to repair work and refurbishing. We want to keep our homes in the best possible con- dition, but life being what it is, we want to do this rapidly—with no waste motion and certainly with a minimum expenditure of the pre- clous commodity, time. So when we want to paint some- thing around the house we want a paint that will dry rapidly, and still have a handsome durable finish. We have just heard about an enamel that dries to touch in one hour. That doesn't mean it is completely dry, but it is not sticky when you pass an exploratory finger over it, and it won’t brush off on your clothes. Used on floors, it is safe to walk over the fresh paint in four to five hours. ‘This paint may be used inside or outside; on floors, woodwork and furniture. It comes in 20 lovely colors as well as in a clear finishing coat that puts a varnish-like coat- ing on floors or woodwork. It also comes in porcelain white and cream, but in these two colors, because of & different composition, it takes three or four hours to dry to touch, instead of one hour. The paint is easily applied with a brush or spray, and in most cases will do the finishing job with only one coat. When dry it is moisture and alcohol resistant, and we saw a demonstration of its resistance to heat. A piece of untreated metal painted with one coat of this new enamel was exposed to the direct flame of a match for one minute. When the surface had cooled a smoke stain was visible. A moistened cloth wiped the stain off. There was no sign of where the flame had been applied. The new enamel is made with a recently formulated vehicle of the synthetic resin type that has become | 80 popular in the varnish and enamel industry. It took six years to de- velop this particular vehicle, we are told, and the result is the acme of speed in drying, plus a hard, flint- like surface. The enamel is particularly good, in color, for finishing bathrooms, kitchens and furniture. It is excel- lent, in its clear amber-eolored form, for hardwood floors. We are trying some of the porcelain white to touch up a worn refrigerator. It costs $1.80 a quart or $1 & pint, and you can buy it in as small a quantity as one-quarter pint for 40 cents. Colors include three reds, two James A. Boorman. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1940, HAMPSHIRE HILLS HOME—New residence of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Underwood at 129 Rit- tenhouse street N.E., which they bought from 8immons Properties, builders, through office of —=Star Staff Photo. might not handle a unit with an exposed belt with the greatest possi- ble caution. Double fans inside the case distribute cool air to all parts of the unit, which has a motor that supplies the energy for shooting the paint out of an adjustable nozzle onto the surface which is being painted. horsepower motor costs $26.95, with- luxe form. Smaller spray guas slone cost as low as $4.95. Perhaps it tvouldn’t pay to buy a spray gun if you are going to paint | & door or a table, but when it comes to large surfaces, such as the out- side of your house, it is well worth the cost. And for difficult to get at | surfaces such as radiators, it defi- nitely takes the snail's pace effort out of painting. * %k Xk X Summer Water Heater. This is the time of the year when you are thinking of turning off the house-heating unit, in the hope there will be no more cold weather. It is, therefore, the time to think about making changes in your heat- ing system to insure better opera- tion next winter. Though you are about to put house-heating problems away until next autumn, it is wise to have your heating system cleaned and additions to it made now, so you won't forget to have these things done before the first frost of fall. If you have a radiator heating system, employing a boiler, you blues, three greens, two grays, three | (& browns, three creams, yellow, orange, maroon and aluminum. * % % x Paint Spray Gun Handy. While we are on the subject of painting—and who isn't in this spring house painting weather?— you might like to know about some new motorized spray guns which | take even more time out of paint- ing. Spray guns make it possible | to paint a wall in about one-third the time it would take by brush- | bucket-stroke methods. The spray guns we have in mind | are portable, easy to handle, inex- pensive units in strong metal cases. All the working parts are covered, so there is no danger of injury to the non-professional painter who‘ Sun Sereens “’Shades as well as Screens’ KEEP OUT 80 to 85% OF SUN'S HEAT* Flat ribbons of bronze set at proper angle to cut off sun's rays—yet allow ample glare- less light and clear pleasant vision with cool comfort. *Data from the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratories * ALL TYPES OF SCREENS STORM WINDOWS AND COMFORT COOLING SYSTEMS For Free Estimate Phone HObart 8300 o JUST COMPLETED In La Salle Park Price Warrants Your Im- mediate Inspection 4316 19th Place NE. A distinctive all-brick center hall house of 6 spacious rooms end beautiful tiled bath. Three big bedrooms, dining room, kitchen and CHEVY The unit with its one-fourth- | | out the motor $19.95 in its large, de | 4848 Chevz might want to install a tankless water heater so that you can use your house heating system to pro- vide domestic hot water in the win- ter and can use the boller just enough to provide summer hot water for washing, too. For with steam or hot-water heat, tankless hot water | is efficient and inexpensive. The tankless water heater consists of 97 or more feet of copper tubing coiled within a tightly sealed heavy | cast iron or steel shell, which is at- | tached to the side of the botler. Cne end of the copper tubing is attached to the cold water .line, the other end leads to the pipe serving your hot-water faucets. It works this way: Hot water from | the boiler enters the shell of the | tankless heater, passes over the cop- per tubing and returns to the boiler to be reheated. The water inside the copper tubing is continually | heated by this boiler water, which, | however, never mixes with it at all. In the summer the hot water or steam pipes to radiators are shut off and just enough water is heated in the boiler to serve the domestic water heater. This summer use of the tankless water heater is confined to heating systems with oil burners, gas burners or coal stokers, however. Hand-fired systems can use the tankless water heater only in win- ter, employing a separate hot-water heater for summer. One advantage of using such a hot-water heater, according to its makers, is that a house heating Chase Blvd. HASE, MD. TO REACH: Out Wisconsin Ave. past District Line Builder 4 side porch. and 2 baths. Finished Other homes of 3 & 4 Chase Circle, turm right Stephenson, then left to OWNERS MILTON F. IF KITCHENS to Brosd Bramch Road, twrs to Chevy Chase Blvd.. turn left three blocks to house. Open Saturday and Sunday, 2:00 to §:00 P.M. EVERETT A. R. SEARL Oliver 8000—Wisconsin 3659 HIGHW = A Community of Fine Delached Homes Exhibit Home 3309 Stephemson N.W. fs of the colonial cenier hall design having a living room 13x24%: opening onto large screened 4 bedrooms (one finished as a den) and heated attic. Becut- ful lot enclosed with rustic fence. Open Daily & Sunday bedroome scme with first floor dens and lavatories. Moderately Priced Near Grade. Junior, Senior Hirh & Parechial Schooks Directions—Drive out Commecticut Ave. 1o Chevy on Western dve., ¢ sevares right 1 oquars to C. F. Mikkelson & Son BUILDERS SCHWAB, Seles Curiis Millwork and Lumber by W. T. Galliber & Bre. COULD TALK boiler and automatic firing devices depreciate more during summer non-operating periods than in win- ter working periods. If a heating plant is run intermittently in the summer mold from dampness in cellars and rusting of smoke pipes or metal equipment are prevented. The intermittent boiler operation creates just enough heat to keep the cellar dry, and that means the firing equipment is ready to do its heating job whenever it is asked to do so0. The main point—for this time of the year—is: “Find out about it now.” For this is the beginning of the best season of the year for heat and hot-water improvements. A heating system should take its sym- mer vacation all clean, repaired and improved, ready to go to work for you in the autumn without delay. For further information about products described here, write the Misses Ducas and Gordon, 230 West Forty-first street, New York City, and inclose stamped, self-addressed envelope, Wine stored in Prance at one| time recently totaled nearly 350, 000,000 gallons. I Go to_end of 2nd Ave. and turm rioht one block to Riley .. or out_Georgia . to Seminary Rd., turn ‘left _one dlock, then sharp right’ one block. will Bannockurn Heights Selkirk Drive and Ayr Lane $9,650 This pleasing home is located on a Ys-acre wooded lot, in a highly restricted neighborhood. Contains 6 beautiful rooms and was constructed by skilled me- chanics in the most modern manner, using only the best materials. Drive out River Road to Wilson Lane, turn left. 1012 15th Stret N.W. No. 6259 29th St. N appeal the' discriminat- ing buyer New Shopping Center - For River Terrace Is Begun Work has been started on s new shopping center for River Terrace. road and Thirty-fourth street NE. Other buildings in the group will be added later. The new center is planned for July 1 occupancy and will be of the popular “park-and-shop” type, with ample parking space for patrons. ‘The commercial project represents the second phase of a building pro- gram calling for a complete com- munity of 1,000 homes. More than 300 of the homes have been com- pleted. Through the use of a modified English architecture the community has been given s particularly pleas- ing appearance. Each home is de- signed to harmonize with those around it. Every home is set in a landscaped, terraced garden and the entire community resembles a scene from an Old English story book. Repainting Tin Roof Before repainting a tin roof, clean the surface of loose, peeling paint with steel wool or fine sand paper. Then wipe with benzine or turpen- tine. Red lead paint is usually used and should be applied on a clean surface in thin coats and allowed to dry at least a week be- tween coats. Three coats are rec- ommended. First Showing g by 403 BALTIMORE R| SILVER SPRING Open from 9 A.M. te 9 P.M. Just completed, detached house, 5 rms. and bath, large screened porch and garage, <nfliond, oil 5 qul neighborhood; 2 blocks stores, %2 bleck to bus. Rd., turn in to Dele , %2 block Baltimore Rd. to house. F. H. A. reasonably priced. R. F. SAPPINGTON Owner-Bulider W, s. 0897 9604 Riley Pl Wootcide il $6285 A five-room bungaiow that to |SIRN1 N [_Ssuvitogr ) Shop. Marvelous Value $10,250 120 WEST WOODBINE ST. Chevy Chase, Md. Between Chevy Chase and Co- lumbia Country Clubs. 6 rooms and 2 baths. | bedroom and bath on Ist floor. 2 large bed- rooms and bath on 2nd floor. Insulated, weatherstripped, screened, Venetian blinds, hot water heat, oil furnace, built-in garage, screened porch. Excep- tional value. PHILLIPS & CANBY, Inc. NA. 4600 FIRST SHOWING Of this new center-hall brick Colonial home located in @ grove of huge ook and flowering dogwood trees—no prettier setting wos ever conceived for @ snow white home. We cordially invite you to see % .W. Today or Sunday Loan League Parley Draws Washingtonians Seven hundred million dollars in savings, building and loan sssocia- tion ussets were 1opresented at s management conference of the United States Savings and Loan League in Chicago las: week end, at which the following from this éity were present: R. E. Buckley, presi- dent of the National Permanent Building Asgociation; Clarence E. Kefauver, secretary of the Columbis PFederal Savings and Loan Associa- tion, and Rudolph Santelman, secre- myatmmmrvpomnuumu- Chief topic of discussion was ex- pansion of the home loan services of these institutions, which now do s third of the home mortgage business in the United States. Australis will restrict the admis- sion of foreign electric horns for Open Sunday, 11 to 6 Chevy Chase, D. C. 3808 Jenifer St. West of Comn. Ave. $10,300 @ 4 Bedrooms, 2 Baths @ Center-hall Colonial Living Room 26’ Long Stairway te Attie Oil Heat Garsge Trees 317 Gallatin St. - e THIS HOME| IS NOW OPEN F or Y our In;p_e_ctian 308 Le Blond Ave. Stone house with slate roof on a wooded Jot 75x150 ft. Unusually large and delightfully arranged 6 rooms. Wood burning fireplace in a living reom 20 ft. deep. 2 com- plete tiled baths; Bedroom and bath en 1st floer. Oil heat, built-in garage. | This beautiful home cubes up only a little less than 30,000 cu. ft. Priced new at $13,500—now slashed to. $10,250 70 reach: Bladensburg Road to Peace c:on'.“r-n Mfl'lll'fll fense "l'lfl:' £0 Landover, M., right to entrance of Cheverly, § blocks to home. Kelley, Steele & Branner 1427 Eve St. N.W. Dist. 7740 Albert W. Walker Buildgr -are exclusive with Copital. your disposal. 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