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Landscaping Software

LandDesigner, a full-feaured computer-aided design software package for creating landscapes, gardens, walkways and sprinkler systens covering up to 170 acres, has been inru duced by Green Thumb Softwre.

Side With Thickness

Select premium vinyl siding from Ashland-Davis features a full .044 thick panel in either a double 4'or 5" profile, reportedly producing the thickest retail vinyl siding available.

Offering low maintenance, high durability and a lifetime limited warranty, the siding includes a premium cedar-grain finish in nine colors. The color goes clear through the panel so it doesn't show scrarches.

Coordinating soffit and accessories are available.

Instant Raised Gardens

T-lne E-Z Border Garden and Landscape System, an ever-expandable system for d-i-yers to create raised bed gardens, pattem gardens and neat borders, is new from Packer Plastics. Components are made of recycled polyresins. Installation requires no nails, rebar stakes, railroad ties or landscape timben.

Helpful Lock Pack

The new clear packaging and color coding system of Weiser Lock knobsets enable consumers to be confident they're purchasing an auractive, quality product that is appropriate for their particular needs.

Packaging features clear descriptions to help identify the type of product enclosed and are coded red for front and back doors: blue for bed and bath; green for hall and closet, and puple for WeiserBolt products.

Starter sets contain four stakes, eight brackets and four stake caps to create basic four-sided raised bed gardens. Single packs are also available to construc[ larger, more elaborate beds or borders.

Designed for an IBM or cmpatible PC, the system providas custom landscape and irrigation designs, automatic materials calculation and cost estimation, hiSh resolution printouts, and a graphical user interfre O aid computer novies. A cmplete set of drawing and drafting tools allows users to create circles, lines, reclimgles, curves, freeform objects, etc. Graphics re organized into forn libraries: trees and sbrubs, garden md ground cover, hardscape (benches, decks, erc.) and sprinkler parts. It includes nearly 300 plant and gardening symbols, and additional plant librarhs customized to particular regions of the country are availiable.

Sprinkler layouB are checked and even simuliated by sbowing which reas of the yard and garden are covered when Oe sprinkkrs re on. Tbe flow rates for each circuit are calculated and recommendations made for valves and piping.

Dust-Free Sander

The Sand-A-Way dustless hand sander has been introduced by Genie. The combination sanding block and vacuum acoessory is &signed for use on drywdl, wood and oth€r horizontal or vertical flat surfaces.

Users load Oe desired grade of sandpaper, then attach its flexible hose to any l-l/4'vacuum systsn for immediate removal of airborne dust during sanding.

Quick-Change accessories include a sanding block to pre-load different grades of sandpaper and switch between them in seconds, a sandsd€gn block for drywall sandscreen, and a vacuum pad to remove lingering dust from the sanded surface.

Engineered Floor Panels

Now produced in 7/8" panels, Comply Sturd-I-Floor from Oregon Strand Board is engineered to provide extra strength and stiffness to the surpasses traditional plywood underlayment in retaining dimensional stability and resisting indentations. Linear variation is reduced and thickness swell is virtually eliminated. Its higb gypsum content adds an extra element of fire protection to floor assemblies. wider spans and lighter weight of Ijoist floor systems.

The underlayment has a smooth, durable surface that provides an excellent base for thin, resilient floor coverings, caryet, ceramic tile, quarry tile, vinyl tile, parquet and wood flooring. Panels come 3/8" thick and in 4x4 and 4x8 dimensions, with special sizes available on request.

L9132" panel, ideal where stiffness and durability are needed (such as exterior siding, planter boxes and garden shed siding), and an 11/32" thickness for interior applications (breezeways, attic walls and ceilings).

Made from two layers of wood fiber sandwiched between three layers of Douglas fir veneer, it reportedly is a stiffer, stronger flooring than plywood, waferboard or oriented strand board. Manufactured under intense heat and pressure using exterior grade resin, it is moisture resistant, durable and guaranteed not to delaminate. Its panel strength is said to offer lower deflection and greater fastener holding performance, resulting in less panel movement and fewer squeaks.

Fi ber-Rei nforced Panels

FiberBond wallboard, sheathing and undedayment panels from Louisiana-Pacific are composed of gypsum and waste paper for added strength, nail holding ability and ease of installation.

The fiber-reinforced wallboard is said to perform better than conventional drywall, but has an environmental plus since it's made with recycled newspaper. It reportedly resists surface abrasion and impact damage, and provides excellent thermal and sound insulation and superior nail holding ability. It's ideal for ceilings, walls and partitions in residential and commercial buildings because panels are available up to 8 ft. wide and ?tl ft.long.

Sheathing features a special ueatment on the front and back that makes the panels exceptionally water resistant. It has no paper or fiberglass faces or backing, virtually eliminating the possibility of delamination. Equally strong in all directions, it reportedly is 3007o stronger in the parallel direction than standard gypsum sheathing, allowing for either vertical or horizontal installation without sacrificing wall strength between framing members.

When subjected to high moisture conditions, FiberBond underlayment

Seemingly Seamless

Plv-Bead decorative bead groove panefng and siding from Georlia-Pacific have been especially machined to provide a seam-free appearance.

The easy-to-handle 4'x8' sheets of unfinished southern yellow pine feature a scratch-sanded surface that accepts paint, opaque stains and custom colors.

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Free Additional Information

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Self-Sell Saw Box

A self-selling "tool box" merchandiser housing the popular Short Cut Tool Box Finish Saw is now available fron Sanley Tools.

The flexible system uses deck modules in a variety of sizes and sbapes to help d-i-yers create a sophisticated custom deck plan, courplete with railings, stain and benches.

The kit contains a color idea booh detailed construction guide, blueprints and materials lists.

4,000 premium Jrcklin seeds, selected according o regional climate.

Ideal for countertop use, the merchandiser not only attracts attention with its four-color graphics, but also shows how the compact saw fits conveniently into a ool box. It holds ten 15-in., 12-pt saws.

Deck Design Kit

A new Redwood Design-A-Deck Plans Kit from the California Redwood Association can be sold directly to consumers or used as an aid in dealers' deck design services or deck clinics.

Roll Out The Green Carpet

Magic Sod Seeded Carpet from Enviro Enterprises is the new way to grow grass easily, economically, cleanly and successfully.

The product consists of a natural fiber carpet encasing premium grass seeds and water-absorbing, biodegradable crystals wbich speed growth. Each square foot contains at least

The carpet can be used !o create a new lawn of any size or to replace worn spots in existing grass. It cmes in convenient, dust-free, easy-to-use rolls of 45 or 100 sq. ft.

Engineered Studs

A new line of engineered studs made from shorter pieces of lumber bonded- together with finger joints saro to be at least uls strong as solid wood has been introduced by Louisiana-Pacific.

The line reportedly provides builders with a reliable suDDly of qualitv studs up to l0 ft. long iri 6cn Zi+ anlt 2x6 dimensions. Sinte they are made from dry, straight sections of lumber, they are said to have better dimensional stability than solid studs, eliminating twisting.

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Solariums featuring a new high perfonnance insulated glazng system are now available from Sunshine Rooms.

Exclusively for flat glass applications, R-10 Maxi-Glas offers-maximum insulation against the hansfer of heat and col4 while acting as a buffer agairst -sound transmission and a protective barrier against the ultraviolet rays.

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'Ihe system individually suspends two layers of Heat Minor 7Z nh betw@n two layers of dual-glazed glass. l(rypton gas, a colorless, inert ele_ ment is added to the system as an additional insulator. All-exposed edges have warm-edge spacers- to prevEnt insulation loss. The unit has an overall thickness of l-1l8".