Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1909, Page 8

THE OMAH A SUNDAY . BEE: DECEMDI Getting Best Results in Home Building Arthur O. Clansen, 'Arochitect. LIVINA ROOM 17X25 RECPT, HALL 12%17’ HE entire planning of a -home might be dwelled upon under the title of “odds and ends” for a house s composed of many parts and materials which should all be lrlsemhlvd together as a harmonious whole, after having been considered separately as to thelr appropriateness and their financlal and artistic value. While every house should be planned to suit its location, and the requirements of locations vary to a large extent, there are a few principles which can be applled in most cases. It matters not whether a lot Is fifty féet wide or one hundred feet wide, a better plan can be obtalned and more value and enjoyment realized out of its situation through placing the broad side of the house to the front than placing the narrow side of the house at the front and extend- ing 1t back & considerable distance to ob- tain the required amount of room. Most lots are between fifty and’ sixty-five feet wide. In a lot under sixty-five feet wide it matters not whether the house is thirty feet on the front or forty-five feet wide. In either case the space left on each side of the house can be used for little more than a passageway from the front to the rear. To plan the broad side of the house to the front makes the house shallow from front to rear and by setting well back on the lot you will thereby obtain a good sized front yard and a good sized back | cipal TAMILY | | | CHAMBER = HALL ) 3 17x20 ARTHUR:C.CLAUSEN: "ARCHITECT CSMIANEAPOLLS, MiNM» yard and other advantages which I wil enumerate, Placing the brond side of the house to the front permits locating the stalrway | through the center of the house, This means that the entrance also will be in the center, both to the porch and the house, which is desirable for outside ap- | pearance as well as inside convenience. It | also permits of placing two of the prin- rooms in the front coi of the house where they can get a splendid view of the strect and even from the side win- dows obtain a better view than If one of | the 'rooms 'were located farther back in | the house, which would be necessary were the house. planned so narrow that the stair hall would havé to be placed In one of .the corners. Placing the stair hall in the center of the house and so planning | the. stalrway that it will bring’ the stair | hall on the second floor in the center of the housé rhakes ft’possible to place the bed rooms in the four corners, if the house is square, .thereby obtaining light and air and a good view from two sides of each room. The principal bearing partition on the first floor can also be carrled up through the second floor in the center of the house, glving it a good back bone. When this occurs, jthe partitions should also be carried down through to the base- ment. So much in tavor of the wide house. There are probably more patented sys- tems and attachinents for heating plants | a modern home | bla that he can obtain regardless of the | house warm on crowd the | of proper 2% FLOOR. than any other mechanical part of a house or building. Each heating contractor lias his own pet theory, which he claims is right, and that all other heating contrac- tors who do not agree with him are wrong. | The man selling a furnace naturally, for | business reasons, does not think much of | a hot water heating plant, and with a hot water heating man the reverse opinion Is also naturally held. Laying aside all pet theories, pro or con, there is no doubt but what the most practical heating plant for | is the hot water heating system. The reason that hot water heat- ing lants are not always a success Is cause of the manner in which they are Installed, and the owner {s sometimes to blame for this, since he is too often tempted to let his contract at the lowest possible contractor's reputation. We will take for example a certain house, requiring 1,000 feet of radiation. Contractor Brown states that he will install the plant complete in every respect for $80. Con- tractof Jones gives the home buflder a little ledture, stating that he hasn’t figured | on sufficient radlation and recommends | that he put in 1,200 feet, stating that he will furnish such a plant complete for §700, with | really no intention of doig so, his real intention being to ive the home bullder | but 900 feet of radiation, knowing that the | home builder will never know the differ ence, unless he has the architect superin. | beeause it 18 the THE BEE'S PLAN BOOK with Ar- the read obtain u Through an arrangement thur C. Clauser et ers of The Omal of uis beautiful OOk, ¢THE ART, SCIENOE AND SEN- TIMENY OF HOMESBUILD. ANG,"” for One Doilar. g whd desis. oL nome. ‘there pracucal than and warr o give aavice buying the lut ietding the with good e questions that cou teipated are answered and the book i Lep 1o those wi a hom fusely illustrated. Arthur C. Clausen, Iixchange, Minneapolis S — tend the construction of the house, until the following winte and then it Is teco late, for the contractor has obtained the owner's satisfactory acceptance of th heating plant, This is @ [ common trick among ome unserupu lous heating contractors. A heating plant | which would ordinarily require 1,000 feet of | operated and keep the | 90t but yeu frequent attention to and keep it burnin up to a high times during very cold weather. | radiation and the boiler ’H‘l‘ capacity a small even fire can be kept up which requires but little atten- tion. The eirculation throughout the plant is slow and easy and the water never boils over the ex slon tank on the| second floor. While all facts point to the of installing a hot water heating plant in | ge sized home, there is no doubt | but what a small home can be heated in| wctory manner with a hot ulr‘ furnace, provided that it is properly in- stalled. Here again the home bullder has to he careful with whom he deais and be sure that his furnace is of the proper size. Moet people put in a hot air heating plant algo his money radiation can be must boiler by the fire piteh at When both advisability ‘ | ting the right | o his house | radiation. | before him, [ best fig | to 70 degrees R 26, 1099, cheapest course a man s fimited to = struction of his home. enlize this fact and the cheapest \pparatus that they can possibly get the owner to buy and pass it off as a heating plant with the usual results It makes no particular difference where the hot water bofler is located, but a fur nace should invariably be located as near the center of the house If it s necessary to carry the a long distance to the flue hot alr pipes, I ‘earrlied any great distance on 4 level, will not give heat. Here fs an other point to take into consideration. It foal to put hot water around the outside walls of a house srably near the windows, to heat the cold air us it enters. In a hot afr however, It Is more practical to place the rogisters in room where they will take 4ho least amount of pipe with the furnace. Iivery furnace pipe should have a damper In the basement for it very often where two plpes leave the furnace near each dther, that the one having the shortest run to the re r takes the heat from the other Under these circumstances it would be best to partially condueting good reason, when a certain amount in the con Some contractors select as possible, smoke pipe for furnace every to conneet close more than its share of heat into the other so as to throw the heat into | the other pipe. All hot alr heating plants #hould be regulated In this manner and when the dampers are once regulated in a manner that insures an even distribu- fon of heat they should then be wired in lace so mt thelr ltered ' After reading the above a prospective horce bullder will naturally ask how he Is going to know whether or not he is get- amount of radiation with- out golng to the expense of hiring an ex- pert to examine the plant or engage the wrehiteet to superintend the construction The most practical way to handle this situation is to have the con- tractor guarantee heating contractor to figure on a certain amount of radiation, but lay your plans telling him that you want the e on a heating plant, complete y detall, which will heat your house in coldest weather. State that you will make him guarantee the amount of radiation he agrees to furnish to do the work properly, and that in your protection you are going to reserve 10 per | cent of the amount of his bid until the tirst cold spell, plant a thorough test, or, to be more specific, until the Ist of January of the vear in which you build. We Maike Them in Omaha and can duplicate any Press manufactured in Brick the world—also Save You Money Hydraulic-Press Brick Co. 330 Bee Building. Let us show you samples. which s of| even | radiators | plant, | the damper In the pipe | positions cannot be | a sufficlent amount of | In other words, do not ask a | enabling you to give the | Pre-Inventory Clothmg Clearance HAYDEN: THE RELIABLE STORE Men’s Suits and Overcoats Youths’ Suits and Overcoats Boys® Suits and Overcoats Broken lines and odd lots from our own regular stock-— will be sacrificed this week to effect a com- plete clearance before inventory, Jan. 1st. 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