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LEAD INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION Graybar Building 420 Lexington Avenue New York A Fine Bathroom Remodeling Job with the Aid of Lead HESE three photographs tell more clearly than Twords a story of modern plumbing accomplish ment in which lead pipe and a skilled plumber play important parts. A building at 54 De Hart Place, Elizabeth, N. J., was damaged by fire. The result to the bathroom is shown in the first picture, as well as the old fashioned plumbing fixtures used. Mr. George L. Bird, prominent Elizabeth plumbing contractor and formerly President of the New Jersey State Mas ter Plumbers Association, was called in to do what Bathroom damaged by fire. Note oldfashioned he could to repair the damage. fixtures. The second picture shows the new roughing-in in stalled by Mr. Bird. Relocation of the water closet necessitated a fairly long run of 4 in. waste pipe. This is made of lead wiped to a 4 in. lead bend. The bath tub waste and trap are also of lead. All joints, naturally, are wiped. The installation thus made is in accordance with the Elizabeth plumbing code and was approved by Mr. Luke J. Devine, plumbing inspector. Mr. Bird insists on the use of the lead for con cealed work because he knows it will make the best job for his custom ers. It will not dog with rust or waste material. The wiped joints are smooth inside and offer no obstruction to flow either of water or solids. Settlement will not dam age lead work because of its flexibility and neither settlement nor vibration will cause wiped joints to shake loose because they are bonded, making one continuous piece of pipe of the sections joined. If alterations or re pairs to this job are ever Lead roughingin for re modeling of same needed in the future, a real plumber will have to be called in. No one but a real plumber can handle lead work. Furthermore, no one but a real plumber, one who has spent much time and effort to learn his trade, would have been able to make this installa bathroom. tion in the first place. That is another reason Mr. Bird advocates lead work. He knows it to be a natu ral protection to legitimate plumbers who in turn The same bathroom xith re modeling completed. Photos by John J. M cCutcheon must protect the health and property of the unin formed public. The last photograph show's the finished bathroom. Certainly this job, in which the concealed plumbing is of the highest quality and the visible room and fixtures so attractive, reflects credit on the plumber and builds up good will for him that is of inestima ble value. The entire plumbing industry benefits by this sort of work. [2. LIA25329 Lead Effective As Soundproofing In England and France 1 j Scale, Inches After Davis and Kaye, "The Acoustics of Buildings" Details of soundproof nail and floor construction. Music School, St. Paul's Girls' School, Hammersmith, England. WO interesting descriptions of lead soundproof three of lead 0.08 in. thick and two of asbestos 0.2 Ting have come from Europe, one installation be in. thick, was inserted around the wall near its top. ing in England and the other in France. Both are This effectively cuts off transmission of sound at this said to be highly satisfactory in the results obtained. point and the pad has enough strength to support At Hammersmith, England, the Music School of the structure above, which is unusual in soundproof St. Paul's Girls' School consists of a ing materials. large hall for singing, two large cham Detail A The great mass of lead, low elastic nilwber music rooms and nine or ten prac i tice rooms for piano and violin. The practice rooms, which are on the top ity and high reflection of sound strik ing it, make lead extremely suitable for this purpose. It is particularly ad floor, are said to be so well insulated that no sound can be heard either \S&Ltad if a08m. vantageous because much thinner sheets of lead, requiring less space through the partitions or floor. As shown in the drawing, each room r is practically an insulated box sur rounded by two layers of Cabot's * -"-Pfasttr than other materials, can be used to get the desired effect. il quilt and lead and bitumen sheet. Sleepers insulated from the joists by layers of quilt support the floor. The joists themselves are insulated from the concrete floor by means of MasA colite pads. Walls are finished in plaster on slag v.ool backing, and some nails were insulated with rubber. Double doors and windows were used. Forced ventilation is employed, the ducts being arranged to prevent transmission of sound. To ac m complish this, inlet and outlet ventilators were con structed with baffles made of felt and perforated lead. Study of the other accompanying sketches reveals the method employed in the Salle Pleyel, Paris. It is seen that the floor of the Salle Pleyel is supported on the wall separating the Salle Debussy and Salle Chopin. Obviously sound in any of these rooms would be readily transmitted to the others unless special precautions were taken. Therefore, a pad composed of alternate layers of lead and asbestos, `?533q AN FRANCISCO, California, is expending S $2,500,000 under the PAY.A. to extend its water distribution system and to replace inadequate mains in part of the San Francisco area. It is reported that 129 miles of pipe are to be laid in the distributing system. This includes removal of about 80 miles of existing 2 in. lines, insufficient for present re quirements, and its replacement with- 6 and 8 in. pipe. The accompanying photo graph shows a high pressure fire line, 12 in. in diameter, consisting of cast iron pipe, hand calked with lead, for a Right. new high pressure lead jointed water main :n San Francisco length of 6500 ft., and which has replaced a much smaller line. The photograph shows a gage reading exactly 450 lb. pressure. By using lead the Water Department is assured of a calking material which will last as long as the line itself. It is poor economy to use anything but the best material in a construction program as im portant as a fire line--a prin ciple scrupulously observed in the selection of lead as the calk ing material. Removal of old pipe and in stallation of new is being done under contract. The contractor is Herman Lawson of San Francisco. Belovs, some of San Francisco's fire fighting equipment that will depend upon the new mams for water. Value of Lead Recognized By More Plumbers* Associations OOD plumbers take much pride in the things tial to the plumbing business, particularly at pres G their skill enables them to do with lead. A ent when there is a tendency to break down the fine example of craftsmanship is the bust illustrated craftsmanship of the plumbing trade and make it here, which was beaten up from sheet lead by Mr. possible for handymen to do plumbing work. H. G. Wilson, of Louisville, Ky., who, in addition More and more plumbers now realize this and are to conducting a plumbing and heating business, is putting up a fight to preserve the craftsmanship of instructor in the Theodore Ahrens Trade School in their business. Master plumbers' state associations that city. The bust is of Mr. Ahrens. in Massachusetts, West Virginia and Kentucky, at Plumbers may wonder what work such as this has their annual conventions in April and May, added to do with the plumbing business. It simply exempli their names to the long list of plumbers' organiza fies that type of craftsmanship of which real plum tions which are actively encouraging greater em bers are genuinely proud. Men who have taken the ployment of lead work in plumbing. These states time and trouble to learn to work like this can gen adopted strong resolutions advocating more lead erally be relied upon to do painstaking skillful work roughing-in and water services. Their resolutions 3* whatever it may be. That is the type of man essen were similar to others that have been printed in LIA25331 A Lead from time to time and as adopted by nine other states that have taken such action. Master plumbers associations in twelve states representing near ly half the population of the en tire country have now adopted such resolutions. The subject of lead plumbing was brought up on the floor of the New Jersey Master Plum bers Association's highly suc cessful convention in May. New Jersey was the first state to adopt a resolution urging its members to work for more lead in plumbing installations. That svas done two years ago and has given sufficient time for the New Jersey Association to study the effects of its action. That results were highly pleading and that these efforts should be contin ued was well brought out in a Mr. H. G. Wilson of Louisville and the bust he formed from sheet lead. speech which received enthusi astic applause. Members were urged to continue their activities in their own communities to bring about better conditions for both public and plumber by demanding the requirement of more lead roughing-in and water services by local plumb ing codes. At the Pennsylvania Master Plumbers' Convention it was al so reported that a similar reso lution passed last year had not been lost sight of, several com munities reporting new and more satisfactory codes requir ing more lead work and others reporting stricter enforcement of existing ordinances. Improved conditions for plumbers and public will result from these activities in many states. Strict Plumbing Code Enforcement Benefits Allentown LLENTOWN, PA., through its enterprising A plumbing inspector, Mr. Harvey F. Saeger, in tends to see that its plumbing laws are enforced, as the following article from the Allentown Chronicle and News and Evening Item, of May 1 5, 1935, in dicates: the complaints . have been received concerns, "joints for soil and waste pipes." "Connections of lead and cast iron pipes must be made with brass sleeve or ferrule of the same size as the lead pipe inserted in the hub of the iron pipe and calked with lead. The lead pipe Pl u mb e r s Co d e Vio l a t o r s Ar e Wa r n e d . Fines Levied on Two Yesterday as `Lesson To Others'. must be attached to the ferrule by wiped joint. Joints between lead and wrought iron pipes must be made with brass nipple of same size as lead pipe. The lead pipe must be attached to the City plumbing inspector Harvey F. Saeger to nipple by wiped joint. All connections of lead day served warning on local plumbers that fu waste pipe must be made by means of wiped ture violators of a section of the city plumbing joint," according to the ordinance. code about which there has been considerable complaint, may expect to be hailed into police court and fined. Two local plumbers were brought into police This portion of the code was recently given to every local plumber with the notice that the specifications were to be carried out to the letter. court yesterday by Mr. Saeger and fined by Al Good plumbing laws are essential but they are of derman William F. Bower for a violation of the little use unless strictly enforced. It should be the ordinance. Other plumbers, Mr. Saeger said, have duty of every right thinking plumber not only to been guilty' of similar violations and the fine im see that his community has a satisfactory plumbing posed on the two plumbers arrested should serve code, but to see that that code is made fully effective. as a warning to others, he declared. Allentown is a good example of what many another The particular section of the code, about which progressive city is doing along these lines. LIA25332 White Lead Performs Remarkably On Century-Old Landmark 5 ft i Interior and Exterior Always Painted with Pure White Lead H i i i :l 31 ' r' 1 ' i M 14 a v \I > T J1 ILLOW WALL is the century-old home of years. Mrs. McNeill has resided at Willow Wall for W.Mrs. A. R. McNeill, at Oldfields, Moorefield, 53 years and states that the interior has not been W. Va., on the south branch of the Potomac Riverr.epainted in that time, yet it shows no discoloration Since it was erected in 1815. all the exterior trim and is in fine condition. The exterior was last and interior woodwork of this historic estate has painted 12 years ago. In all the 120 years of its life been protected by pure white lead paint. Fortu no exterior wood has had to be replaced, even to the nately the ample protection afforded by white lead wood gutters. The cost of painting this old home has helped to preserve a fine example of Colonial must have been extremely low on a yearly basis architecture and wood carving. over its 120 years of existence in contrast to the In the 37 rooms and halls of Willow Wall, which high cost of using low grade paint. is now and always has been a private residence, there are 16 beautiful hand carved mantels and all the doors are embellished with hand carved trim. All this has been painted with white lead for 120 Original wall paper imported from England still adorns the main hall and is in excellent condition to day. It is hand painted in 14 colors, depicting Eng lish hunting scenes. Original carpets and furniture grace this fine example of early American archi tecture. Colonial builders "builded better than they knew." it is said. With but one generally used white paint pigment to choose, they were able to protect and to beautify their buildings as well as in modern times. This pigment was white lead which is today as durable and as inexpensive to apply as it was in Colonial times. White lead has thus proved its worth over many generations. It can be used without any speculation as to its performance. With all the years Exterior of Willow Wall in West Virginia, built in 1815. It has always been painted with pure white lead inside and out, the last exterior painting being done 12 years ago. that white lead has been "through the mill'' it re mains the preferred paint today of those who know paint, such as skilled master painters, trained arch itects and large buyers of paint. LIA25333 Lumber Mills Enclose Painting Instructions With Siding IN AN attempt to educate the public to good paint| ing and thus reduce paint failures on wood, most lumber manufacturers are now enclosing a painting instruction folder in each bundle of siding they ship. Paint failures on wood have hurt markets for lumber and paint and, naturally, the painters busi ness also, bv encouraging building with materials that do not require paint. After extended studies of the problem, the Cali fornia Redwood Association, the Western Pine As sociation, and Western Red Cedar Lumber, whose members manufacture probably 85 per cent of the siding used in this country, each compiled a set of painting instructions suitable for their particular products. These they have printed in attractive, colorful folders bearing the names of the Associa tions, and their members are now enclosing the proper folder with each bundle of siding. These instructions cover painting fully. They ad vise correct dashing over windows and doors and end Write for New Edition of Valuable Lead Pipe Booklet A new and im proved edition of the booklet "Lead Pipe," which was so well received a few years ago that the original print ing was quickly ex hausted, is now ready for distribu tion. Copies will be sent free to archi tects. water works engineers, builders, plumbers and other interested parties making re quests to the Lead Industries Association. It contains complete information about the manu facture of lead pipe, kinds available, where to use it and suggestions about how to get the best re sults with lead pipe. It also contains information on lead "burning" and chemical equipment, and new sections dealing with certain uses of sheet lead have been added. Tables of the new stand ards of lead pipe sizes and weights and other useful data are included. Write for your copy promptly to be sure you get one. sealing of exterior lumber with paint, both precau tions to prevent paint failures that result when moisture gets into or behind siding. They advise as to the best weather for painting and give other pointers on application of paint. They recommend that painting be done by skilled painters. They also recommend painting only -with pure white lead or the highest quality mixed paints and give mixing instructions. These painting instructions are a decided step for ward in avoiding paint troubles, but they can only enjoy full effectiveness if every one concerned co operates in their use. It is the duty of the retail lumber dealer to call the attention of his customers to the instruction folders and to urge that they be followed. The carpenter and builder should cooperate in seeing that proper flashings and other construction details are attended to. The reliable painter will, of course, apply good paint properly if left to decide for himself,* but if the building owner insists on using inferior products, the painter can use the instruction folder to convince the owner of the wisdom of using good paint. The reputable painter can also use the folder to protect him before the owner when he is bidding on the job against painters who bid on low quality paints. * Eighty-five per cent of master painters paint their own property with pure white lead paint. Covers of painting instruction folders now enclosed in siding bundles by members of California Redwood Asso ciation. Western Red Cedar Lumber, and Western Pine Association. [7] LIfr2533^ New Type Bearings Depend On High Lead Content EW bearing metals, in which lead is a much N larger constituent than formerly, have been developed recently to meet the more exacting de mands of modern engineering. These new alloys are mainly of two types--calcium-lead base alloys con taining fractional percentages of other elements, and copper-lead alloys with the lead content running up to about 45 per cent. The first type, the calcium-lead base alloy, has been used by railroads for truck and trailer brasses, car journal bearings, lateral plates for engine trucks, trailer and driving boxes, cross-head gibs and other applications. It is also employed in Diesel engines built for the Navy. Perhaps the most spectacular use of this new cal COURTESY A. C. SPARK PI UG CO. High lead content bronze, steel backed bearings used in some of the latest and most popular automobiles. cium-lead base bearing has been in the Diesel pow ered streamline trains which have become so popular tomobile motors placing harder service on bearings and which have established such enviable perform has led to its adoption by some of the leading motor ance records. One of these on which a calcium-lead car manufacturers like Ford and Packard. This al base alloy was used for all main and connecting rod loy also permits higher bearing loads. bearings in the Diesel engine is the now famous Bearing metals able to stand higher loads and M 10001 of the Union Pacific Railroad. temperatures permit increased engine speeds, in This type of alloy is characterized by a low coef creased horsepower without larger engine sizes, ficient of friction, and, since the melting point is shorter engines by using narrower bearings, multiple higher and the metal is harder at running tempera cylinder in-line engines in low priced cars without tures than older types of bearing metal, it is able to appreciably lengthening the wheelbase and other im stand up under higher temperatures and pressures. provements. Also the new alloys in which lead, an The other type of new bearing alloy--copper with American product, plays such an important part re large quantities of lead--has been in use for a num lieves American manufacturers of dependence upon ber of years in aircraft engines. New designs in au foreign sources of supply. COURTESY RAILWAY ACE. The Burlington Route's Zephyr Tsrins. tiro of the neir streamline trains icbose Diesel engines use calcium-lead base bearings. THE LEAD INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION INVITES INQUIRIES ON ANY SUBJECT RELATING TO LEAD AND 11 C JjWILL BE GLAD TO COOPERATE WITHOUT OBLIGATION IN THE SOLUTION OF YOUR LEAD PROBLEMS LIA25335 MADISON SQUARE PRFSS NEW YORK