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RED TOPICS HISTORICAL FILE zr*eecticn- B B O ll 0398 RED TOPICS MAGAZINE treating subjects vital to lathing and plastering 3 UNITED STATES GYPSUM publication 101 S. Wacker Dr., Chicago. HI 60606 GEORGE E. HARPER Editor G. E. HARRIS. C R DENNISON. Associate Editors O. I PANAMA. Art Director NOTICE: The lollowmi trademarks are owned and 'or registered <n tne Un>tej States Patent Office by Uniled States Gypsum Comoany and are used throusnoijt this magazme to designate products manufactured oy this comoany. RED TOP & FIRECODE (piaster); TRUSSTEEL (studs): USG (metal lath, accelerator). TUFCON is registered trademark of Plastering Develop ment Center. Inc. PHOTOGRAPHS m this issue by Caufield & Shook. Louis ville. Guy Burgess. Colorado Springs: Robert 0. Harvey. Boston; staff. Copyright 1964. United States Gypsum Company FULL INFORMATION about the many products tor construction manufactured by United States Gypsum Company is available from the nearest of the following district offices or from your local United States Gypsum sales representative. ALABAMA Birmingham, FA 3-7133 ARIZONA Phoenix. CR 4-5461 CALIFORNIA Los Angeles. DU B-3231 Los Angeles (So. Calif ). NO 5-5721 San Leandro. 569-3020 Sacramento. Gl 3-1989 San Diego. 295-5191 COLORADO Denver. 388-6301 CONNECTICUT Hamden, 288-1607 FLORIDA Jacksonville. 359-1628 North Miami. PL 4-4553 GEORGIA Atlanta. 231-3180 ILLINOIS Chicago, 321-5795 Elmhurst. 833-9717 Peoria, 682-5478 INDIANA Indianapolis. LI 6-4775 KENTUCKY Louisville. TW 5-9478 LOUISIANA New Orleans, 622-0482 MARYLAND Baltimore. DR 7-8001 MASSACHUSETTS Waltham, TW 4-2150 MICHIGAN Southfield. EL 7-2000 Grand Rapids. GL 6-8611 MINNESOTA Minneapolis. WA 7-9911 MISSOURI Kansas City: WE 1-1388 Clayton. 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Center BBOU 0399 hat can a plastering contractor do when his price's from IS1/: cents a sq. ft. with conventional Wbusiness slowly slips away to competitive plaster to 16F2 cents with TUFCON finish. When they systems? Especially when he has chopped costs utsoe a tinted sand finish, painting is eliminated and rock-bottom and still can't compete? costs go even lower--usually less than for decorated The Thompson Brothers, Greenwood, Ind., found to-in. drywall. the answers when they switched to the TUFCON sys Quality of Thompson Brothers' work is high. tem--U.S.G.'s revolutionary thin-coat, high-strength Since they switched to Tufcon system, they have plaster system. Dick and Don Thompson and their yet to receive a call-back. Finished surfaces, whether three-man crew (two journeymen and a laborer) smooth or floated, please the most discriminating soon mastered the technique of Tufcon application customers. Further, Tufcon has put the Thompsons and discovered they could do a medium-sized house much in demand. They work for over 30 builders in one day. This sliced a day and a half off job in a 25-mile radius around Indianapolis and are in schedules with conventional plastering methods. an enviable position--they can select the best jobs. Now, Don Thompson can say, "When we start a Photos show Thompsons' typical eight-hour oper 500-600 yd. house in the morning, we know we can ation. Watch the clock and see how fast walls go up finish it the same day." with the Tufcon system. Perhaps the time for you Costs were sliced, too, so the Thompsons dropped to switch to Tufcon is now? B B O l1 0400 \ 1` 1 RESILIENT LATHING SYSTEM (right) was specified to "float" plaster slab. Steel framing is subject to expansion and contraction from extreme temperature changes. Here, lather attaches No. 400 resilient clips to Trussteel studs, wire-ties metal lath to li-in. steel pencil rod. SEVENTEEN MAJESTIC SPIRES of U.S. Air Force Academy interfaith chapel tower 150 ft. skyward. Chapel is unique in that Protestant, Catholic and Jewish services may be held simultaneously without interfering with each other. TRUSSTEEL* SOLVES A TOUGH ONE TETRAHEDRAL MEMBERS, separated by decorative borders of stained glass, create dramatic interior lines. Protestant nave (shown) seats 900. Walls are Red Top plaster on USG metal lath. 4 ising majestically above a cluster of ground-hugging, R rectangular buildings near Colorado Springs is one of the most publicized buildings of recent years--the Air Force Academy Chapel. The structure's 17 tetrahedron shaped steel spires bear testimony to the high aspirations of air-minded youth. And behind the walls, there's testi mony to the versatility of Trussteel studs. A big problem area in the selection of a lathing system was the sudden variations in temperature common to Col orado. Because thermal action on the steel framing would tear plaster walls apart, architects selected Trussteel studs with a resilient attachment of USG metal lath and Red Top plaster. Thus, the plaster slab floats free from structural members, unaffected by temperature changes. Lightweight but strong, Trussteel studs in a resilient lathing system achieved the desired result at lowest possible cost. PLASTERING CONTRACTOR: FLOYD HARTSHORN, INC. ARCHITECT-ENGINEER: SKIDMORE, OWINGS AND MERRtLL GENERAL CONTRACTOR.* ROBERT E. MCKEE T.M. Re*. U.S. Pat. Off. B B O ll OAOl BIG BOOM FOR FIRECODE*! ireproof a floor a week? Doesn't seem like too tough a job. FBut Louis Galie Plastering Co., Chicago, tackled the sched ule--even though Chicago's new 30-story Federal Office Build ing is a block long, and ceilings range in height from 11 ft., 6 in. in office areas to 24 ft. in courtrooms. It would take real hustle to scaffold and spray-fireproof a floor a week. But why scaffold at all? Galie employed six ingenious booms (five 12-ft., one 24-ft.), dubbed "Mudslingers," to do the job without scaffolding. Skilled operators sprayed steel decks and beams with Firecode V plaster fireproofing from floor level, switched from decks to beams with a slight turn of a wheel. Six Essick plastering machines were kept busy by the Mud slingers. Nearly 1,800 tons of Firecode V were applied to steel decks and beams in a scant 17 weeks. To move the mixers and keep enough plaster on hand for them were the hardest parts of the job. For more than 1,200 bags of Firecode V flowed through the six Mudslingers daily without a hitch. And these machines proved to be a big boon for Louis Galie Plastering Co. Although delayed two months at the start, Galie completed the job--one of the largest plaster fireproofing jobs to date--21 days ahead of schedule. ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS: SCHMIDT. GARDEN, A ERIKSONI C. F. MURPHY ASSOC.; LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE; A. EPSTEIN A SONS, INC. GENERAL CONTRACTORS: PETER KIEWITT SONS', INC.; PASCHEN CONTRACTORS. INC. B B O ll 040 1. EASILY MANEUVERED--Mudslingers move freely, unencumbered by scaffolds. Galie Job Superintendent Joe Metzger trains operator in new technique, which required few days to master. 2. ONE-ARMED ''DRIVER" handies Mudslinger, easily directs nozzle spray to deck or beam sides. Iron weights, just above wheel, counterbalance boom. 3. MUDSLINGER sprays Firecode V onto high courtroom ceiling deck with speed and ease. Machine's reach can be extended from 19 ft. to 30 ft. with additional pipe sections. 1 A CASE FOR THE PORTABLE PLASTERER FLIP OF SWITCH and John P. Ritchey is ready for another job -- no heavy machines to move and no time wasted. John enthuses about his new opportunities with U.S.G. salesman George McNeill. n the job and ready to spray plaster in 30 minutes! O Some kind of a record? Nope, that's slow time for John P. Ritchey, an aggressive Altoona plastering con tractor--he can do it in 20 minutes. When he arrives on a job, he's already set up and ready to go. No secret weapon--he's the "man with the bus" to architects, con tractors and homeowners alike. John is young in years, yet 17 years in the plastering business. He saw many of the problems in the industry whittling away profits and washing him out of the com petitive stream. One of the big ones was setup time, mov ing equipment on and off the job with so much wasted effort. His answer: buy a specially adapted school bus and mount all his equipment in it. A business that has tripled in the three years since he bought the bus, with even better prospects, seems to prove it was the right answer. In his bus, built on a heavy frame and with 6V2 ft- of headroom, John can carry everything he needs on a job-- even men and plaster. He mounted mixer and Tri-coater in the front, with a steel floor-to-ceiling toolbox right behind for spare parts, clothes, tools and the like. He still has room for jacks, scaffolds, 220 bags of plaster and four men--and can still hurry when he's late for work. Ritchey's bus has gradually changed his business from residential to commercial. Almost 75% of his 1963 volume of nearly $150,000 was commercial work. But John's first love is his plaster machine--the bus is only a means to get it there. He promotes machine-applied plaster to architects and other contractors alike, "because it's good for the industry. You can compete. It brings plaster back . . . makes work for the men . . . assures consistent qual ity." In his pre-machine days he had three men, now he has 11. Machine plastering has helped him increase busi ness a number of ways: Acoustical plaster can be worked thin enough and fast enough so that a man can follow with a straight edge without peeling or pulling. Then, he can drive quite a distance and still compete on residential work. Finally, he is more in demand on remodeling work. He pulls his bus up to the curb, hoists the hose up to a third-story window and gets out, with no mess for the homeowner to clean up. That's quite a case for the portable plasterer! 6 HOSE TOO SHORT? Just move the bus. Ritchey rarely needs over 115 ft. of hose, even on this big Holiday Inn. The job was 134 miles from home base and he could still compete. 2 CD O O 0 u THERE'S PLENTY of headroom and work space in the rear of specially built school bus. Electric heater in front keeps men. materials and machines protected during inclement weather. T-- - '7C6SS3fiiCrv- S' Vic-V'vp.nv'ig > .. _ ......... r'^.yVtJviJr'r'-; ViirH^V RED TOP ONE-<X>AT PLASTER.,,.. . 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