104 
House & Garden 
More Fresh Water 
is needed for Health 
H EALTH demands plenty of 
fresh, running water in the 
home. Any physician will tell you 
that. 
Have you running water in the 
kitchen ? Have you a bathtub—a 
wash bowl—a toilet of modern com¬ 
fort and convenience? Running 
water brings these health necessities. 
Do you carry water on wash day? 
Running water brings sanitary tubs 
into the cellar. You just turn a faucet. 
Running water means plenty of 
water, for every need, UNDER 
PRESSURE. Water to sprinkle the 
lawn and garden. Water to wash 
the car. Water for fire protection. 
Why put up with pump and pail 
or other old-time methods, when at 
little cost you can have this famous 
home water plant? 
It's Automatic 
FAIRBANKS-MORSE 
HOME WATER PLANT 
Capacity, 200 gallons per hour 
Quality of plant guaranteed by the name, 
Fairbanks-Morse. Don’t accept a substitute. 
If you do not know the local Fairbanks- 
Morse representative, write for his name. 
See this plant. Literature sent free upon re¬ 
quest. Write us at once. 
It is a private pumping station. Operates 
from any electric light socket or home light¬ 
ing plant circuit. Pumps water from cistern, 
shallow well, spring, stream or lake, under 
pressure. Practically noiseless. Pressure auto¬ 
matically maintained. No switch to turn. 
No adjusting. Has special galvanized tank. 
Highly perfected, extra efficient Fairbanks- 
Morse Pump, a vital feature. Water for the 
whole family and for every need at a few 
cents a week. 
FAIRBANKS, MORSE &CO. 
manufacturers Chicago 
v 
The Canadian Fairbanks-Morse Co., Ltd., Montreal 
HINTS FOR 
I F you are building your own home, 
that is, selecting plans and then let¬ 
ting the work out to a building con¬ 
tractor; or buying the materials and 
hiring the labor yourself, you should 
always bear in mind a few little “Do’s” 
and “Dont’s”: things which add only a 
very slight amount to the original cost 
but which later pay for themselves many 
times. 
If you are purchasing a new home 
ready built, you should have your eye 
out for certain points which show 
whether or not a house has had the 
proper attention in the smaller details, 
which, if lacking, would in time show 
up as a detriment to the property. If 
you are purchasing a home before it 
is completed, you can give it a small 
amount of your own personal super¬ 
vision in the way of small details which 
will more than pay you for the time and 
trouble it may cost. 
After all, you really do not know 
what kind of a house your new home 
is until you have lived in it for over a 
year. At the end of that time you find 
out how and of what your house was 
built. At first sight you can readily ap¬ 
preciate a nicely planned house: plenty 
of wall space in the living room, with 
a cozy fireplace, a cheerful dining room, 
a convenient and well arranged kitchen, 
bedrooms which not only look ample 
but in which there is plenty of room 
after all furniture is arranged and which 
have good cross ventilation, a satisfac¬ 
tory heating system, sanitary plumbing, 
BUILDERS 
etc. But what kind of a house have 
you when cold weather comes? Does 
the wind come in around your windows 
even with weather strips on? Have the 
floors settled? Has the flooring opened 
up and cracked, especially above the 
furnace? Has the plaster cracked 
around the chimney? And do the win¬ 
dows rattle? 
To avoid these catastrophes at the 
start—■ 
First: See that the bearing plates on 
the main foundation walls are properly 
bedded in cement mortar before any 
joists and studding are put on. Do not 
allow the plates to be laid directly on 
the masonry work to be pointed up 
later (figure 1). What little pointing is 
done under this condition (if not en¬ 
tirely forgotten) is bound to crack off 
with the shrinking of the lumber, etc. A 
full bed of mortar should be spread on 
top of the foundation and the plates, 
then tamped into it before the cement 
has set. In this way all the unevenness 
of the wall is taken up and wind and 
cold cannot possibly get through (fig¬ 
ure 2). 
Second: See that there is no connec¬ 
tion between the chimney and any part 
of the frame work. The chimney should 
be entirely independent of any wood¬ 
work, especially if the house is built on 
soil which is likely to settle. Do not 
allow any plastering directly on the 
chimney. Studding with lath and plas¬ 
ter should run entirely around the chim- 
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If bearing plates are laid directly on mortar, 
to be pointed up later, there will be cracks 
when the lumber shrinks 
Bearing plates embedded in cement spread on 
the foundation take up all unevenness and pre¬ 
vents the wind and damp coming through 
Hurry-up construction which Careful construction showing 
will permit opening between carpet strip fastened to floor 
floor and carpet strips as joists with tight intersection between 
shrink all members 
