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,N HAR DWOOD EXCEI,IENCE!
Dealer Business Booster
f)ICOCNITION of fire-retardant wood f\ u. a real business booster for dealers is showing up in increased sales across the country. EIIorts on the part of J. H. Baxter & Company, pioneers of many lumber preservative treatments, have resulted in official recosnition for the fire-retardant properties of chemically pressure'treated lumber. Building code changes have b,een cffected and new doors have been opened to the use of rvood for many construction projects formerly limited to metal and concrete.
Extrn crofit and extra business for deal' er-s are .ho*ing up. The Hammond Lum' ber Co. of Pasadena, Calif. recently supplied 50,000 bf. o{ Pyresote to Emio Tomeoni. contractor for the Argosy Apartments in Pasadena. Tomeoni used Pyresoted studs for all interior partition walls in the Type II concrete lift-slab apartment house. Previously, the use of the studs had ,been restricted to southern California schools, public buildings and FHA condominiums.
Ihe combination of the lift-slab constnrcticn and the use of Pyresoted studs put them way ahead of schedule. Labor time was reduced to one-third by following the customary technique used in framing Type V wood buildings. The easy to work rvith studs were end-nailed through the Pyresote wood sills and plates laid horizontally on the concrete floor. The assembled walls were then raised and set in place with concrete nails gun-driven through the sill and top plate.
Interior rvalls would have been built of concrete had it not been for Pyresote treated lumber. Dealers are finding that money and time saving installations such as this have stimulated buyer interest and increased sales of the treated wood.
