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Home Srudy Course

A comprehensive self-teaching course, aimed at helping lumber and building material dealer personnel boost sales by increasing knowledge of the building industry, has been developed by Weyerhaeuser Co.

ciation m embe rs, architects, builders and others by the Architectural Aluminum Manufacturers' Assn. Titled "Thermal Control with Aluminum Windo'tus," the film demonstrates how the builder can tell the heat control story most effectively to prospective home owners and cites newly compiled statistics behind the story of home heat control.

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Housing Arficle Index

Poneling Cololog

A 12-page color catalog featuring Marlite's plastic-finished hardbard wall and ceiling pan-

Self-Study Construction Course,

The course, "Construction, Blueprint and Estimating Series," is designed for self study. The series contains 15 booklets and can be completed in three months of spare time study.

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Cedor lining

New 6-page brochure describes Cedarline, a lining that has the aromatic qualities of tongue and groove strips, is easier to install and saves money. Made of 700/o arcmatic Tennessee Red Cedar, no wood fillers are added.

Cedarline comes in standard 4'x8'panels and 16"x48" panels in convenient boxes.

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New Bond Deck Pottern

An information brochure on Bond-Deck in a new channel groove pattern is available from Tarter. Webster & Johnson.

Bond-Deck patterns are manufactured from white fir in either textured or smooth surface.

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Heqf Conlrol Film

A comprehensive visual treatment of heat control through the use of aluminum windows is presented in a 20-minute color sound filmstrip offered to asso-

Under the title Homas and, Homebuilding: 7967 the National Association of Home Builders has published an index to periodical literature on housing.

The 187 page eompilation covers the 1967 issues of ap- proximately 300 popular and trade publications. Listings consist of the title and source of more than 3,500 articles arranged aphabetically by subject matter beginning with ,,Aframe construction', and ending with "zoning."

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Instolling Underloyment

A four-page illustrated folder gives recommendations for installing hardboard underlayment. Reasons for its use are: adds insulation to cut heat losses, reduces noise transmission, provides warmer floor over crawl spaces, adds strength in floor construction and bridges surface irregularities in subfloors.

Included are data on use of nails or staples and application of finish flooring.

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Sound C,,ontrol Brochure

A brochure on rated sound control construction systems for partitions and floor/ceiling systems is now available from Celotex.

Detail drawings for 27 sound control systems covering floor,/ ceiling and partition assemblies are included, as well as tips for added quiet conditioning in building construction.

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eling for 1968 is available. It illustrates textured panels, decorator-inspired solid colors and patterns and high-fidelity wood- grains. Moldings are also shown.

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Lnterior Ldeos

The color Interior Design & Paneling ldeas booklet frorn Georgia-Pacific is an approach to the problems of successful interior decorating. It also is a sales tool for building material dealers.

ft presents answets to questions on everything from style, color, texture, patterng accessories and floor plans to financing and the reasons for asking pr.ofessional advice.

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"Exferiors" Advice

Complete specifications, application instructions and descrintions of Masonite Corp.'s X-g0 siding line are given in their 24-page 1968 "Exteriors" catalog.

There are seven pages of data oR architectural and generai speciflcations and detailed ap- plication instructions for lap and panel sidings.

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Industriol Plywood Guide

Applications for softwood plywood are discussed in the publication PIAwood, FactsA Gui.d,e to Industrinl Uses.

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