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Doors On Dlsplay

A4 "ntty door merchandising system has been developed by-Cille Sewell to showcase its new California Door.

The unit includes a simulated entrv door mounted behind the Californii Door, plus a sill and brick molding.

The California Door featurEs a solid core sandwiched between an aluminum skin, improving durability over standard hollow aluminum screeir doors.

Undercover Wood

A polymer-covered wood product line offering the structural intecritv and beauty of newly painted tufrUer without the usual periodic maintenance is new from TimbeClad Technologies.

The unique manufacturing process, utilizing a cross-head extrusion die, extrudes linear low density polyethylene over kiln-dried pine lumber of various dimensions.

TimbeClad never needs painting and, when installed per the manufac- turer's instructions, carries a 10 year warranty against fading, splitting, peeling and cracking. A special ultraviolet inhibior adds years of weather resistance to the already durable, chemically resisant polyethylene.

It is ideal for post and board fencing and other applications requiring an attractive, durable wood product.

Stock sizes are 2x6xl6 and 4x4x8. Other lengths and 1x6 and 2x6 dimensions are available by special order.

It provides tbe took of bricks without the mes and expense of cement foundations and footings. The ultrastrong plastic material reportedly won't crack or chip due to wear or bding nailed.

The system is based upon a fullsized interlocking brick, but accepts both a ready-made interlocking topcap-brick and a ready-made half-cap brick. Surdy, attractive fences, flowei planters, interior accents and fence and sidewalk borders snap togetler, with no special skills required on most installations.

LSL Rim Board

The first structuxal building product using TimberStrand laminated strand lumber made from aspen has been introduced by Trus Joist MacMillan.

For use with the Silent Floor System, TimberStrand LSL rim board replaces 3/4" plywood, the material most commonly used as rim board. It uses 8' long aspen logs from which thin strands up to 12" long are cut. These strands are then bonded with high perfomance adhesive in a unique steam injection process that densifies the wood to produce huge billets.

It is available in a standard thickness of l-l/4" and in depths matching Silent Floor joists. The rim board ii ripped to precise tolerances at the manufacturing plant, eliminating field cutting plywood for rim board.

Other claimed advan0ages: replaces a multitude of possible rim details with a single detail for virtually all applications, speeds installation with its long lengths, comes in a solid section for a continuous, solid backing for attachment of exterior siding and decks, requires no additional filler, anO enables accurate and effective nailing of floor sheathing to the rim, which increases the system's resistance to wind and earthquake loads.

Instant Stone Walkways

Walk Maker, a concrete form shaped like several different sized stones for producing pathways, patios, courtyards and other outdoor areas, is new from Quikrete.

To build a path, the user merely places the 2 ft. by 2ft. durable plastic fomr level on the ground and fills the cavities with prepared pre-mix concrete. The form is removed immedi-

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Reformulated Wood Filler

A new, environmentally safe formulation of the popular Fanowood wood filler family has been introduced by Beverly Manufacturing.

Solvent-Free Wood Putty is designed to meet VOC and envhonmental regulations while still filling the

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Designed for small defects and open grain in woo( the filler is easy to use with excellent handling properties. It spreads evenly and smoothly, filling any voids in the wood completely with a minimum of shrinkage; offers excellent adhesion; dries fast; sands quickly and easily to a smooth surface without plugging the sandpaper; blends with the grain; cleans easily with water prior to drying, and can be stained with conventional oils and stains.

Because of its unique properties, it doesn't remove the preprinted ink from the surface being filled. There are no ab,rasives to scratch the printed surface and no solvents to remove the ink

It comes in 1/4 pints, pints, gallons, 5 gallon pails and drums. Its six standard colors, whi0e, natural, fir/maple, oak walnut and birch, will blend in with virtually any wood, moulding or paneling.

Most Uniform Lumber wood product industry's production needs in plywood, cabinetry, millwork, flooring, paneling, furniture and other custom woodworking applica-

Because the lumber is uniform in size, on-the-job end fitting problems are eliminated. It is made by a patented Drocess from surfaced Douglas fr in iizes from 1"x2" through 12"x18" up to 40'in length.

Attractive and available for prompt shipment" it is custom made to exact requirements for grade characteristics anil appearance value and fis standard hardware.

Trained personnel select and Process the product by hand, preventing soilage and nan0ting damage nomally associated with rough sawn products.

Accuruff lumber can be made from virtually any softwood species on one or morb faces including dry lumber and glulam beams.

Accuruff, reportedly the most consistently unifonn rough sawn lumber available today, is now available ftom Forest Grove LumberCo.

360'Signage

A new three-side hanging sign mount has been designed by Popcb, mc.

The mount bolds three mid-weifit signs or posters up to 40" wide to ofTer 360" visibility for visual impact at point of purciase.

Skylight Add-Ons

A roof window accessories disolav is now available from Roto p'rani< of America.

Heavy Duty F$tonlng

A new powdcr actuated fasrcning qystem from Hilti Inc. perfonns single fastenings !o conqEte and steel.

Weighing les than 5 lbs., tbe tool is ideal for electrical, plumbing and drywall installations.

Features include automatic cartridge case ejection, padded gnp to reduce recoil and noise supptesser. It utilizes a .22 calibr;r boosrcr and fasteners ranging from ll2" to 2-718" long.

Made of wbite comrgated stock, the Three-Sider folds into a sturdv triangular platform. Plastic arrowstyle clips on the sides of the platform allow secure attachment of pre-drilled sign panels. It ships flat and takesjust minutes to assemble.

The white-coated wire rack is built as an add-on module to both the new and original models of Roto display racks for Vision, Sunrise Series ll-and Hilight roof windows.

Requiring no electrical power source, it reportedly is up to three times faster than drilling and reduces in-place fastening oosts to a fraction of the cost of using anchors. P.O.

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Holding six operating poles, four window shades and l0 hex ball adapters, the rack is free to recailers who purcbase a minimum assorfiient.

Swinging Salesman

Swinging panel display units from Multiplex maximize selling spaceTor gift items, decorative accessories, mirrors and artwork.

Ten-panel units provide 20 display surfaces (either 360 or 560 -sq. ft.) to show a wide selection of merchandise stvles.

'Available in various sizes, units feature sturdy steel panel frames with durable baked enamel finish and tembered pesboard fillers with attractive painted finish. Roller 'separatois maintain spacing between panels and protect itrjms, and special flatiened peg hooks hold items close to the panel surface.

Recycled Sprayer

SafeWorld International's Can Gun aerosol spray can handle is now made entirely from 1007o post-consumer recycled plastic. '

The-impact-modified, chemical qrd solvent resis[ant plastic off6rs minimal environmental impact and superior durability.

An improved trigger pivot post adds to its,accurate control over ^the amouil, spleeO air0 direction of virtually any spray can's contents.

Retaller Deslgns New Nlche

W.T. Harvey Lumber Co.'s new kitchen and batb design divislm at lts main stfi€ in Columbus, Cr&, hn 11creased sales volume, padded tbe bottom llne and inproved its image.

Naned Bowden Design after on-site designer Jere Bowden, tbe center offen design services, full-size mock kircbens and batbs, upscale disphys and other aids, irrluding a slide presentation showing before and after photos of pastjobs.

Bowden, who holds a degree in kitc.hen and bath design, belps homeowners design kircbens and baths to fit thair requirunents and tastes, then has the cabinets custfrr made and installed.

"Con@tors like it bocause tbey don't bave to fool with it" and customers, especially the ladies, like it for @nve- lbne ud quality at a fair price," said Hanrey Lumber's Ricky WrlSbt.

The dlvlslm ls aimed at the upscale remode[ng mrket "hopb bave refrnancod tbelr bomes, doclded Ocy tte tle arpa and are golng io stay, but they don't llke the small kitr,hen," eaid Wrigbt. "fuid tbey want sqne of the nicer things."

The new concept has attracted customefs as far as 100 miles away in east Alabama and south Creorgia. A couple qtjqll in t[e last few montbs have brought in over $50,0m apiece.

"Wben contractonl send people over lo look u our leadd glas doors, they see tle kitcben," said Wrigbt. ,.Maybe thgy don't want to spend that kind of money right now, but a few years down the road, maybe they'll thinkbf us."

Remodellng Spending Hlgh

Residential remodeling urd re@ expenditures were ar an all-time high in second quart€r 19D2 at all?..l billion seasonally adjusted annual rate, up 35% fuom the estimated $924 billion fint quarter.

Major replacement spending, such as re-roofing, residing and new finnaces had the greatest surge, rising 892o. Maintenarrce and repair rosc, 39% and additions/alterations ll%o in Departnrent of Commerce figures.

Robert Sheehan, consulting economist for tbe National Association of tle Rem@ling Industry, agrees that residential remodeling and repair expendinres have improved but questions the estimates, believing the first quarter too low and second quarter too high.

Although expenditures will continue to improve, there is no reason to believe a boom is underway, he said. Second quarter numbers are most likely to be revised downward.

Robbery? What Robbery?

Two gunmen forced the manager at Scotty's Hardware, Pensacola, Fl., to empty the safe and then slip@ out of the store without anyone else noticing.

Employees first learned of the armed robbery when sheriffs deputies arrived in response to a call from the nunager, handcuffed in his offioe.

The cashier at the register near the front door noticed few customers pass by her the evening of Sept. 26. .If they'd been nnning or something I might have noticed,,' she said. "People walk in and out past me all the time."

HELPING HAND for Hunicane Andrew relief effotts is extended (left lo rioht) to Elizabeth Dole, American Red Cross, by Dixie Plywood & L[mber Co.'s Mike Moore and Chuck Kuhlman at the rec-enl Floilda Lumber & Buildinq Material Dealers Association Main Event. Dixieply's Flodda distributioi c'enters donated $1,300 on behalf of bcal retailes Builderwav. W. Palm Beach: Banning Building Maledals, St. Petersbuq; $onlemyrii and Shoemaker, Sarasot-a; Naples Lumber, Naples; Prcstige Lumber,-Odando; All Qualily Building Materials, Deland; Haven Building Materiab, Wnler Haven, anil East Coast Lumber, Ft. Pierce.

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FOOTBALL niqhts for relail and contractor dealer, whole saler. mill and distributor vlrd customers are held bv Gieal Southern saler, mill and ylrd Gr_eal salsr, distnbulor yard nen D1 urea uounern Wood Preseruino eadr year to kick off the season. The Conyers, Ga', planl toast€d Ui'iversilyof Georgia Bulldogs coach Ray Goff Aug. 27, iryith Aubum Univenity's Pal Dys ap-pqring al the_grand opcning of.lhe ol illuogs coacn hay ('(xl zt, Dve-aooearino the qrand opening of lhe rvamb'er. Similar 6vents fd'aured'Flodrfa $ae Abbeville, Al., plant in Novamb'er. Similar6vents fCaured'Flodrfa $ae Universitv codch Bobbv Bowden and University of Florida's Sleve Spunier.'Mobile, Al., and Bushnell, Fl., plants also host dinners. Jim Spunier. Dby, Jenniler Crisco, Fmddy Weygand, Bob Worfel (lefr lo dghl) get in lhe spiil.

MW WIND0WS. Rockv Mount, Va., will sponsor this Chevrolel Lumina driven bv Terv Labontir in 18 Busch Grand Nalional events in 1993. A 15 vear ieterair. Labonte has 10 Wnston Cup wins and two Busci Grand National wins tb his credil. MW has prodirced an equally succsssful