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House & Garden 
(Continued from page 74) 
IS 
Heat, ventilation and humidification are sup¬ 
plied by the one simple Kelsey system. 
Every room and hall of this large residence has 
a complete change of air every fifteen minutes. 
, The air in every room is automatically mixed 
with just the right amount of healthful moisture. 
T his moisture automatically varies as condi¬ 
tions require. Aside from the health-giving side 
of a humidified heat, there is its economy. 
It is a well understood fact that you feel just 
as comfortable with 5 degrees less heat if it is 
humidified. 
J hat 5 degrees during the course of the season 
means many dollars of coal saved. 
Furthermore the Kelsey is noiseless, dustless 
burstless and leakless. 
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This Residence 
of Edgerton Winthrop’s 
Kelsey Health Heated 
New York Office: 
237-K Park 
Avenue 
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Boston (9) Office: 
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mgs and swellings of the window. The 
windows have to be conditioned care¬ 
fully because the stripping must be so 
fixed that it can be removed, if neces- 
sary to do anything to the window it¬ 
self afterwards, such as fitting new pul¬ 
ley cords, etc. Every window and door 
offers different problems, so an expert 
must apply the strips to your window 
and door. This is not a commodity 
that a baby can affix—it’s a man sized 
job. 
Purchasing 
Remember the weather stripping that 
you buy should last as long as the life 
of your house. For this reason the all 
metal kind is the best to buy. The 
metal and 'cloth are efficient as long as 
they last, and so are other combinations; 
but they do not last long enough. You 
must get a longevity insurance. They 
must be made of non-rusting, non-cor¬ 
roding materials such as bronze, copper, 
zmc or brass manufactured to a high 
degree of dependability, and subjected 
to the most rigid inspection and tests 
for accuracy, thereby awarding the 
buyer a rich guarantee. 
Find out from users of the brand you 
think you will buy, before you buy, and 
see what they say and what their ex¬ 
perience has been. 
Weather strips can be put on any 
opening, and should the purveyor you 
speak to say this or that opening can¬ 
not be properly stripped, that is your cue 
for seeking elsewhere. Buy only from 
established makers, who will be in busi¬ 
ness for years—because in twenty or 
thirty years you might want a window 
adjusted. 
Early in this article mention was 
made of the saving in fuel by Uncle 
bam. Professor Allen, of the Research 
Laboratory of The American Society of 
Heatmg and Ventilating Engineers, in a 
letter to the writer said: 
“Roughly with ordinary good house 
conditions we can say that the air in a 
room changes every hour due to leak¬ 
age around windows. With good weather 
strips you reduce the leakage very con¬ 
siderably. Of course, this depends upon 
the type of construction in the house. 
Some years ago I installed a complete 
system of weather stripping in an entire 
institution and we roughly estimated 
that the saving of fuel was about 15%.” 
Since then other tests have been made 
to bring the percentage of saving of 
fuel from 15% to 40%. 
When you think that a window shade 
keeps in 19.2% of warm air, think what 
the fitted metal and interlocking strips 
can do. 
The weather strip not only keeps the 
cold air out but actually by not ad¬ 
mitting the cold air allows the heated 
air inside to maintain the moisture 
necessary for comfort. With the ad¬ 
mission of cold air the moisture is pre¬ 
cipitated from the air and we have not 
got the proper humidity necessary to be 
happy. The moisture in the home comes 
from water evaporation in kitchen lava¬ 
tories, air itself which comes in, etc. 
The warm air can carry the humidity, 
but the cold air does not do it as well! 
and when it strikes the warm air the 
latter is forced to condense. 
Comfort is the main thing in the 
home, even more sometimes than savins 
fuel bills. 
Comfort, says Professor Allen in an 
address, “is the prime consideration, 
more than maintaining a definite tem¬ 
perature. Getting the temperature right 
brings comfort. We should aim at 40% 
to 50% of moisture in the winter with 
68 to 70 degrees.” 
The fact is that the heating engineer 
today allows for about more heating 
area when the house is not weather 
stripped. And then, sad to relate, at 
this consequent extra expense the house 
will be probably unevenly heated, be- 
cause some rooms will have big window 
and door leaks and other rooms little 
leaks, so there will be overheating in 
some rooms and underheating in others. 
Another engineer said, “I have caught 
snow in my hand at a distance of two 
feet from a tightly locked window in a 
house supposed to have better than 
ordinary construction. 
“What. can better this condi¬ 
tion? Weather strips, metal weather 
strips ...” 
He also said in the same address on 
heatmg the home that the builder did 
all he could do, with the materials he 
had. So there is the dilemma 1 
The storm window can often be ob¬ 
viated by weather strips. The storm 
window is much more of a nuisance than 
the appliqued weather strips. Who wants 
to add another set of windows to be 
cleaned? And who enjoys the manipu¬ 
lation of them in rush moments of storm 
and wind? 
For Wind, Dust and Noise 
The weather strip is the solution of 
the gale exposed home, of the noise, dust 
and weather exposed home, of any home 
with windows at all. It is not subject 
to depreciation but increases in value, 
and as the house depreciates the weather 
stripping takes on the burdens of the 
ever increasing depreciation and prevents 
any more rapid fuel consumption, keeps 
down the dust infiltrations and lessens 
the cleaning bills. If, by chance, the 
woodwork is still obstreperous the de¬ 
fect can always be corrected, if a good 
brand of stripping has been used. 
In other words, weather strips are a 
good investment. Good weather strips, 
like any good material, are a good in¬ 
vestment. 
Much of our trouble with the heat in 
our homes comes from the impossibility 
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The door with head 
and side and sill 
weather stripped or 
sealed against air 
and noise. Courtesy 
of Monarch Metal 
Products Co. 
