The Huron Expositor, 1970-05-14, Page 16•THE HURON EXPOSITOR, SEAFORTH, ONT., MAY 14, 1970
Gets Answers To
Cost, Quality Queries
Last year Americans
Spent more than $12 billion on
repairing and improving their
homes!
When that amount of money
is spent, it's pretty obvious that
Millions of families these days
prefer to remodel their dwel-
lings rather than to move.
Why? For many reasons.
They like the neighborhood in
which they live and the conven-
ience of shopping in familiar
stores. They hate to leave the
old friends and are reluctant to
place their children into new
schools of unknown quality.
But, unfortunately, many,
many families who don't move,
don't plan to improve their pre-
sent homes. They are afraid that
the prices for . remodeling will
be too high, the materials of
poor quality, the workmanship
shoddy.
AVOID MISSTEPS
Actually the average home-
owner need have little fear in
fixing up his home to his and
his family's complete satisfac-
tion. Reliable contractors exist
to perform the work.
Let's examine three common
misimpressions of home im-
provement and how you as a
prudent homeowner can avoid
missteps:
The price for remodeling
your home will be too high. It's
true that construction industry
costs are rising rapidly, because
of labor charges, not because the
remodeling contractor is waxing
rich. (Most contractors are small
businessmen whose incomes are
not out of line \kith other wages
in the community.)
You can be certain of get-
ting a fair price if you take the
trouble to shop around and get
bids on your job from at least
two or preferably three home
improvers.
Remember also that a re-
modeling job usually enhances
the value of your -home, par-
ticularly in these days of steeply
rising values. So, consider your
remodeling an investment rather
than an expense.
2. The remodeling materials
will be of poor quality. Here
again, as a prudent homeowner,
you can guarantee against shoddy
goods by workirtg with a con-
tractor who applies brand name
products.
3. •The remodeling workman-
ship will be poor. One way to
be fairly certain of good work-
manship on, your job Is to ask
for and then check a contractor's
references before you hire him.
Go look at some of his other
work. In this way you can judge
for yourself whether you are
dealing with a reliable
remodeling businessman.
I nc re asingb? homeowners
complain of long delays before
a contractor will even, look at
their job, The reason is that
there's a labor shortage in the
construction industry—as more
people than ever before take steps
to fix up their dwellings.
Talk to the home improvement
loan officer , at the lending in-
stitution you are planning to
finance through about costs. Get
his suggestions. Incidentally,
very often he can also recom-
mend a qualified contractor.
Last but not least, play fair
with the contractor you select.
Don't change plans in the middle
of the job and expect him to
adhere to his schedule and
originally quoted price.
Don't demand extras from
him as your price for signing a
completion certificate (without
which he won't get paid by the
lender).
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treatment on the re-decorating
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If so, here are a few tips which
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yet professional-looking, do-It.-
yourself job in every respect.
First draw a diagram of the
room on graph paper, laying out
Hit proposed pattern either
straight-line or dlagonally.This
will serve as a guide to the
number of tiles required in each
color or pattern.
Preparing the floor is , the
next step. Eliminate loose' or
creaky floorboards, by nailing
them down with spiralsgrooved
flooring nails. Then, thoroughly
clean the fl,,nor.
Remove any wax build-up,
and make certain that the sur-
face is .completely dry before
beginning the installation.
Now, stack the carpet tiles
face down within easy react of
work area. Making individual
stacks for each color in the pat-
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reduce the chance of making an
error in the pattern,
One of the newest methods of
making a permanent or semi-
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Position each carpet tile so
that corner and edges meet
firmly but don't buckle. Should
a tile need to-be realigned, the
adhesive will allow. it to be picked
up. If, however, adhesive has
been allowed to dry more than
five or six minutes, it Will be
more difficult.
As each tile is set in place,
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pressure over the entire area.
There is no need to use anything
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Would you believe that I know
the secrets of successful water-
ing?
Here they are:
Water when the soil is dry
two or three inches below the
surface. Check it. Don't wait
for plants to wilt and droop!
Dig down a couple of inches,
take a handful of soil and squeeze
it. If it forms easily into a soil
ball that does not crumble, do
not water. IF it does not form up
and crumbles easily - then it's
time to water.
After a gOod rain-soaking,
watering shouldn't be necessary
for about five days. But hot sun,
low humidity and strong winds
all have a quick drying effect.
Sandy soil will absorb water
readily - but dries out fast. Clay
soil will not accept, or lose water,
as quickly as sandy soil. So sandy
soil calls for watering frequently
- little and often. Clay soil calls
for less frequent watering but
more water each time.
Watering must be thorough.
"Surfac e only" watering can do
more harm than good. Proper
watering means soaking the soil
to a depth of several inches.,.
which means running your
sprinkler for., several hours. It
means not rushing. It means
adjusting the faucet to stop too
much water from rushing out,
running off and flooding the top-
soil away.
Newly seeded lawns need
moisture every day. Deep, fine;
slowly-sprayed water to estab-
lish good roots.
Lawns of course are
thousands of grass, plants. All
lawns need more water than other
garden features - and a sprink-
ler hose is almost an absolute
necessity.
Why a sprinkler hose? It
-covers the lawn effectively in
a soft, rain-like spray pattern.
It can be turned around corners,
along curves and down hard-to-
'reach strips.
LaWnS and flowers and most
plants generally are best watered
in the morning. Not in the aftef-
noon. Not in the evening. Grass
Crop
Report
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for Huron County
Spring seeding is well
advanced in all areas with 90%
completed. Spring seeding is
about half up and looks good.
Corn seeding is well underway
with 30% planted.
Soil is tending to be dry with
showers needed in South Huron.
Canning peas are 50% planted
with early ones uji‘Pproximately
2" and looking excellent.
• Pasture growth is good with
livestoCk out on pasture.
and leaves of plants left wet
overnight are susceptible to
fungus.
Don't miss the flower beds
when gardens are watered. A
soaking is what they - and their
root-soil need; lay the sprinkler
hose down between the plants
and adjust the water flow to
cover the flower beds only.
Roses are special! Keep the
foliage of roses dry. Splashing
water carries black spot disease
of roses. Get the water into the
soil around the plant! Use a
sprinkler upside down to soak
roots thoroughly.
And water roses in the
morning only. Roses in full bloom
are most thirsty!
Sweet corn, beans and tortrat-
oes all need planty of water in
the critical growth period. But
tomatoes and musk melons will
tend to split if -they're over-
watered during the final ripening
stages.
On the other hand, straw-
berries need water to hold good
moist roots.
In dry spells even carrots,
turnips and onions, which nor-
mally get by on average ground
moisture, need a soaking.
Roughly speaking, shallow-
rooted crops need a 3-inch
watering once a week; deep rooted
12 inches.
GrOups of shrubs have a,
Collective thirst. Satisfy this with
a good soaking. Big plants use
plenty of water - and a light
sprinkling means little or noth-
ing.
Rhododendrons and azaleas,
with their shallow roots; may call
for more watering than other
shrubs. The surface of the soil
should be moist.
Water a tree by punching
holes about a foot deep into the
soil in a circle around the outer
rim of branches. Let the water
trickle down the holeS to the
tree roots.
Newly-set trees and shrubs
need about two years to establish
deep root systems. 'Water them
well.
When- grass doesn't .grow
under trees the 'reason is usually
lack of water - because the treeS
are stealing it! To provide for
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Plants near buildings are shel-
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fact they lose it in evaporation
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