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Weatherbeater Well Named

WeatherBeater, a tough exterior door that is aptly described by its name.

A door that stands up to rough weather and heavy traffic. A beautiful door that offers the warmth of real woodgrain patterns in the deeply embossed overlaid surface. A door that offers unusual warp resistance. A door that is available aC a competitive price. WeatherBeater, the name says it all.

The solid core door is new from the Columbia Door Div. of Simpson Timber Co. The phenolic resin impregnated overlaid surface is fused to exterior hardwood plywood under heat and pressure. A specially designed warp resistant frame and construction techniques give twice the warp resistance of standard wood doors. The flatness and stability of each door helps to maintain a tight weather seal under all conditions.

AIl thermal code requirements for insulation are met in the solid core doors. The surface accepts paint or stain equally well and when finished as recommended, will not splinter, check or peel. On-site work can be easily accomplished with normal woodworking tools since the doors provide excellent dent resistance but can be easily repaired if scratched in the installation process.

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Base Flashing

additions to G-P's line of conrpound and plaster for the do-it-yourselt'er. joining a one-gallon can ol'ready-rnix which has attached to it a booklet of instructions.

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Screen Door Hardware

A new pushbutton latch (('D1704) for aluminum screen and storm doors conrbines modern styling with weathe r and wear-resistant construction and finishes-aluminum and the popular new black-suggested list, S5.75.

Stanley llardwarc"s expanded linc features new products with a total offering of over 30 items, finishes and a first-in-the-industry l'ree take-honre brochures for do-it-yoursclfers on where and how to install the variety ol' screen and storm door protlucts.

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l'llCarve!

Roof Flashing Streiches

No matter how uneven or irregular a roof's contours may be, new "Nervastral 600" elastic roof flashing from Rubber & Plastics Compound Co. quickly forms tight-fitting flashing that is totally watertight.

Made of a scientifically compounded heavy elastic sheeting, it stretches, shapes to any roof contour and eliminates the installation problems encountered with metal flashing and can cut labor costs by as much as 25%.

The company claims it is easy to work and install, even around vents and columns (where it provides a l-piece flashing). It flexes freely without cracking, resists weather and aging, and has a high degree of elongation so that it adapts itself tightly and snugly to roof contours.

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DIY Joint Compound

Joint compound and patching plaster in packages especially designed for the do-it-yourselfer havc been developed by GeoLgia-Pacific.

The joint conrpound. fbr use in bedding and topping tape and in spotting nail heads, comes in either a 5 lb. bag or a 4lb. bag which contains a 60' roll of tape. The patching plaster for filling cracks, holes and other inrperfections. is in a 5lb. bag.

Instructions are printed on the bags.

These packages are the newest

A six-piece carving set with sharpening stone for carving soft wood, soap, plastic or linoleum, has been introduced by Stanley Tools.

Six of the nlost used carvins chisels and sharpening stonc arc contained in a unique and versatile storage case. It hangs on the wall or sits on the work area for easy selection while carving.

Chisels are of heat treated fbrged tool steel with wood handles. Designed for the hobbyist, the boxed set meets the need to pursue carving, one of the oldest arts known and a craft with unlimited variations and possibilities.

Set features six types and sizes: 3/8" straight chisel for straight whittling: 3/8" bent chisel for cutting concave surfaces;3/8" skew chisel for carving line detail; 5/16" gouge for carving out a round concave surface; 3132" "u" tool for grooving and cutting same concave surfaces; and 3/32" veining tool, "v" shaped lbr cutting fine lines or veins.

Suggested list price is $ I 4.89.

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SIMULATED brick, available in five colors, by Marlite, offers the home handyman an inexpensive way of putting beauty, charm and warmth into the kitchen on a cold winter weekend.

Insulated Products OK'd

The NAHB Research Foundation, Inc. has qualified all standard residential blanket building insulation products manufactured by CertainTeed Corporation for its labeling program. This program verifies that each tested product accurately reflects its stated dimensions and thermal performance.

As a result, all CertainTeed packaging will soon be carrying the NAHB Research Foundation's label which states that the product inside has passed performance tests conducted by that accredited independent testing laboratory.

WRITE: The Merchant Magazine, 4500 Campus Dr., suite 476, Newport Beach, Ca. 92660.

DIY Wood Floor

Antique brown finish and plankstyle "V"-edges are features of new Williamsburg Strip hardwood flooring for homeowner installation. newest member of the Chickasaw brand floors.

Anyone who can install wall paneling or ceiling tile can handle Williamsburg Strip, according to the company.

In a variety of sales aids and color literature, Williamsburg Strip is heralded as a permanent replacement for soiled or worn carpet in family rooms and other living areas.

Full-thick construction weight (3/4" x 2-114") it can be installed over any plywood subfloor, in new rooms or old. An elaborately illustrated "howto" booklet covers many details not familiar to non-professionals, and features instructions on a special automatic floor nailer, the primary installation tool.

The display carton contains 18 sq. ft. Printed in a 2-color display layout, it is suitable for sales floor stock.

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Combination Door Insert

Plaza and Mo-Bel-Air combination door inserts are manufactured by Alhambra Metal Products. lnc., 322 S. Date Ave., Alhambra, Ca. These units are designed for any door where light and air are needed and are illustrated in a new free color brochure. This all aluminum, custom engineering unit never needs painting. It has two vertical sash, which slide easily and smoothly, and are removable for cleaning and lock in Place with just a touch. The units have fiberglass screen. Installation is quick and easy with only l0 screws and a screwdriver.

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Wholesale Lumber Merchants

GREEN

Douglos Fir - dimension, timbers, cuttings

Redwood - commons, uppers, fencing

Pine - boords, dimension (commons & uppers)

Cedar - shakes, shingles

Plywood - sheathing, sonded

West Coast Hemlock

Seal-Stain Gets Color

A new line of waterproofing sealstain that gives all-weather protection, together with deep penetrating color, has been introduced by E. A. Thompson Co., Inc.

Their Waterproofing Seal-Stain was developed in response to the demand for a long-lasting stain that would also seal and protect against the elements, according to E. A. Thompson, company president.

"We have been marketing our fine quality Thompson's Water Seal very successfully for nearly 50 years," he outlined, "but people wanted color, too. Now one container will do both jobs. "

It comes in 12 solid and 10 semitransparent colors. This gives a full range of the most popular shades from light to dark.

The new seal-stain is designed for both construction and do-it-yourself projects in the home. Thompson's patented chemical action seals, stains and protects wood, concrete and masonry. It can be used for both interior and exterior jobs.

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NEW 0ECK PTANS system, Redwood Design-a-0eck, by the California Redwood Assn., is a complete do-it-yourself guide to deck design and construction with garden grades of redwood. The copyrighted kit, offered to consumers for $4 through nationwide advertising and publicity in newspapers and magazines, is available to dealers from many redwood suppliers at a discount. Kit includes plans, materials lists, a 20-page manual, and decking patterns with special graph paper. Descriptive literature and a Design-a-Deck countercard are in free sample sales aids for garden grades promotion this spring, from the CRA, Dept. DDK,617 Montgomery St., San Francisco, Ca.94111.

Housewares Promotion

Rubbermaid's latest promotion includes selected sinkware items for orders postmarked through MaY 31, plus pitchers and tumblers and ice cube trays and bins for orders postmarked through June 30.

Rubbermaid's sink mat and dishPan, with regular suggested retail prices of $ 1.98 and $2.29 respectivelY, are being promoted at a suggested price of $ 1.57 each. Suggested promotional prices for a drainer tray, twin sink dish drainer and regular dish drainer are $2.57, $2.97 and $2.57 respectivelv. Normal suggested retail prices are

$2.98, $3.59 and $3.29. A pre-pack is available for dishpans, and an end cap assortment includes all these produ,cts.

Ice cube bins, with a regular suggested retail price of $1.98, are now available at a suggested promotional price of $1.33. Ice cube trays are packaged two to a set with the suggested promotional price of $1.09 a set, regularly $1.58. Ice cube trays are available in shelf packs and pre-packs; another pre-pack merchandises both ice cube trays and bins.

Suggested promotional prices for pitchers and tumblers are $1.44 for the stacking pitcher; $1.88 for the covered pitcher; $2.'77 for R.ubbermaid's new gallon pitcher; and $.77 each for 8-oz. or 14-oz. tumbler sets. Normal suggested retail prices for these respective items are $ 1.79, 52.29,53.49 and $.99.

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Insulating Windows

An energy conserving insulating window featuring a maintenance-free, hollow extruded-aluminum frame and easy-to-position glass panels is available from Chamberlain Manufacturine Corp.

Available in models and sizes to fit most doublehung type windows, their insulating windows offer a completely weatherstripped mainframe to keep the weather out year-after-year and to reduce drafts, and windlocks to .hold the glass panels firmly in place during buffeting winds. In addition, the glass panels are easily removable from the inside for cleaning.

Other features include fiberglass screens for strength and good visibility, prowler-proof latch triggers that can only be operated from the inside, and an adjustable aluminum sill expander to assure a perfect fit on out-of-square openrngs.

Wood Turning Centers

Michael-Regan Wood Turning Centers are displays of do-it-yourself products from posts to balusters, legs to plant ons and much more. The custom-built display units are a proven, successful system for achieving maximum turnover and profit per square foot.

Each modular unit is designed lbr display singly or in groupings. The units measure 2' deep by 4' high with widths ranging from 2'-4'. Because each rack is especially designed to display the products in the most effective way, retailers find them easy to stock and customers find it easy to select the product they need.

Only furniture quality hardwoods are selected and turned so your customers can have the finest natural wood grains. Each piece is carefully pre-sanded so that it is ready to be stained, painted or antiqued. MichaelRegan wood turnings are ideal for the weekend do-it-yourselfer.

WRITE: The Merchant Magazine, 4500 Campus Dr., suite 476, Newport Beach. Ca. 92660.

BRASItIANT, an exciting, bold decorator paneling, has a sculptured, cameo-like surface in this Blossom pattern, which comes in brown and beige. lt creates a striking accent wall. A melamine-coated finish makes it easy to damp-wipe clean the 4'x8'xl18" panels, which can be installed quickly with ordinary carpentry tools. There are three eye-catching patterns in this new line of Marlite brand prefinished paneling from Brazil.

Saw/ Screwd river Display

A new line of hole saws for use in portable electric drills, drill presses and lathes completes the line of saws now offered by Stanley Tools. Designed to make clean round cuts on hard and soft woods, composition boards, plastics and soft metals, the hole saws are available in 14 sizes from 314"-2-112" witt' ll4" or 5116" shank mandrels.

Each is skin packed on a card with suggested list prices: mandrels from $3.99 - $4.99; hole saws from $1.69 ea. for a 314" to $1.97 for a 2-112" saw. To introduce the new line, UniRack II display No. l5-775 holds five each of all 14 hole saws and five each of the mandrels. Display has red, white and blue vinyl backing and inventory address labels.

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Built-up Roof System

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Shakes. Shingles

Lumber, Fencing Palings, Hip & Ridge Shims

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Gaftemp, a lightweight, rigid insulation board for built-up roofing systems enables the roofer to order all the materials needed for a job from a single source.

The roof insulation is a homogenous board composed of expanded perlite particles, blended with selected binders and fibers. During manufacture, the particles of perlite, a unique volcanic ore, are heated intensely, causing them to expand into glass-like beads about seven times their original size. The air cells which result give Gaftemp roof insulation its efficiency as an insulating material.

The top surface is sealed with a special coating to retain the proper amount of mopping bitumens, helping to assure positive adhesion of the builtup roofing membrane during the aP-

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It is especially designed for use in built-up roofing systems over nailable, non-nailable or metal roof decks. Where practical, it should be applied in two layers with staggered joints. It may be applied with an approved hot bitumen, cold adhesive and/or mechanical fasterners. Size of the Gaftemo insulation board is 24" x 48" in nominal thicknesses of 314", 1", l-112" and 2".

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Environmental Glazing

Andersen Corp. has added new energy-efficient environmental glazing lptions to most of its top-of-theline Perma-Shield windows and gliding doors and prefinished units.

Environmental glazings are available with bronze and gray-tinted glass and coated reflective glass which are effective in reducing solar heat gain and glare. During months when heat gain from sun shining through the window can increase air conditioning bills, environmental glass can help reduce utility costs.

The expanded glazing options per- mit architects, designers and owners of residential, commercial and institutional structures, interested in energy conservation as well as minimum exterior maintenance, to fill virtually all fenestration requirements of a building.

WRITE: The Merchant Magazine, 4500. Campus Dr., suite 476, N-wport Beach. Ca.92660.

New Disposer Merchandiser

Two new display units from Anaheim Mfg. are designed to sell customers up to top-of-the-line garbage disposers.

These attractive, eye-catching merchandisers showcase the newly designed line. By highlighting key features, they invite consumers to compare models, directing their attention to the disposers that yield more profits for the dealer. To fit individual store reouirements, the displays come in two versions. These include a stock-conso- lidating floor unit and a compact, counter-top display.

Ideal for use as end caps or in line with gondolas, the floor merchandiser holds 24 disposers on the selling floor for instant customer access. To conserve inventory dollars, the display is available as a complete package with three non-operating disposers.

The all-metal counter top display requires just 1.25 sq. ft. of space. lt holds three disposers and features an easy swiveling base to simplify customer selection. Each disrroser has its own colorful header card, highlighting sales features.

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