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-=::3{:lo Re-Mfg. focilities for resowing lo 34" x34" lf we con't find it we'll moke it ool've been in business for many years and this is one of the better campaigns. It excites the home-owner because it plants a seed in his mind that perhaps he hadn't given thought to before. In other words, the program makes it easy for us to show people they can remodel without too much money and that they can add space to a house they might have thought was impossible to remodel."

Dealers and remodelers often find it difficult to explain to a prospective customer just what his house will look like with a room addition and where it will fit in.

The home modernizer kit supplied by DFPA includes sample floor plans and many renderings that reveal how almost any house will look with an extra room attached.

At least one dealer is findine these selling aids helptul. Bob Blandford of Bob Blandford Lumber in Grand Rapids, Mich., says he shows them to each prospective customer, "They're good, clean plans and they show exactly what goes into a room addition and how it can fit the floor plan of the buyer's own house."

The plywood association plans to continue vigorous promotion of the program and to ofier sales training courses to remodeling salesmen in the next year.

Dealers interested in participating in the Add-a-room program can obtain a Modernizer's kit and begin receiving sales leads by sending $I0 to the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, Tacoma 2, Washington.

Two o{ the most important framing components in any home are the small timbers and dimension lumber which support the roof, the actual frame of the home itself, and the 2xl2 lumb'er which serves as the floor joists. If these elements are made of selected Douglas fir or west coast hemlock the home is well framed and can last for a oentury or more.