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"The Steel Heart of Plaster” pSf 5 ! Stops Fires--Prevents Cracks 
Plaster on Kno-Burn Metal 
Lath— Still perfect! 
Plaster on Ordinary Lath — 
Disaster! 
Which Fate Awaits YOUR Home? 
Ask Your Builder 
Ask him to explain how you can reduce 
the “up-keep” of your home and make 
it fire-safe by protecting the “vulnerable 
points” listed below with 
Xno-fourn 
METAL LATH 
“The steel heart of plaster'' 
Crack Prevention 
(1) Use Kno-Burn on ceilings of living 
room, dining room, entry hall, around 
and under stairs and stair wells. 
(2) Use a 12" strip of Kno-Biirn bent 
into corners of dining room, living room 
and entry hall. 
(3) It is well also to use Kno-Burn 
for walls of all principal rooms. 
Fire Protection 
(1) Bearing Partitions, stud and exte¬ 
rior walls, including fire stops. 
(2) Ceilings under inhabited floors. 
(3) At chimney breasts, over heating 
plants. 
(4) Stair wells and under stairs. 
(5) For exterior stucco. 
Y OUR pleasure in that home of yours depends on its walls and ceilings. For they are the parts 
you see. 
Will their surface remain smooth and perfect? Or will beauty-destroying cracks appear— 
the plaster fall? The answer to these questions is in your hands. You can risk expensive, annoy¬ 
ing plaster repairs, or you can have 
Walls that Cannot Crack or Burn 
Every year Kno-Burn Metal Lath is used ill thousands of the finest homes. Architects and 
builders know that the steel mesh of Kno-Burn reinforces the plaster in all directions—barring 
plaster cracks. Walls and ceilings based on Kno-Burn retain their beauty. They will not streak or 
crack. 
And Kno-Burn protects your home and family from the ever-present menace of fire. Official tests 
by the experts of the Fire Underwriters’ Laboratories, prove that walls based on metal lath bar 
the path of the hottest flames. 
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