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Wanted : Truss Technicians Is Building Component Design For You?, an employee recruitment brochure developed to address the diminishing number of truss technicians and other skilled trades. is tiee from Wood Truss Council of America, I WTCA Center, 6300 Enterprise Ln., Madison, Wi. 53719; (608) 274-4849.

Handy Man's Bible

Black & Decker: The Complete Photo Guide to Home Improvement, a 504-p., full-color book that contains over 1.700 color photos of step-by-step home projects, is $34.95 fiom Creative Publishing, 5900 Green Oak Dr., Minnetonka, Mn. 55343t (95T 936-4700.

Roofing Options

A l6-p., tull-color brochure of residential roofing materials is free from GAF Materials, l36l Alpine Rd., Wayne. N.J. 07470: (800) 555-1852.

Container Lessons

An informational CD and video on the manufacture and use of a reusable, plywood bulk container is free from Riverside.400 Beaver Lake Rd., Kelowna, B.C., Canada V4V l55: (250) 766-2775.

Literate Home Bodies

A full-color catalog of books on home design, wood working, and home improvement is free The Taunton Press, (800\ 477-872'7.

Certified PAT Master

A training video to help certify people in the use of power actuated fastening tools is free from Remington, (312) 850A1-7 7.

Fiber Cement Siding

An l2-p., full-color brochure of fiber cement siding is free from CertainTeed, P.O. Box 860, Valley Forge, Pa. 19482, (800) 233-8990.

Gardening Gadgets

A l2-p. booklet of soil meters and test kits fbr gardening is free tiom Luster Leaf Products, 2220 Techcourt, Woodstock, Il. 60098; (516) 868-6645.

Hardwood Lessons

The Finishinp Touc'h: A Guide to Specfying North American Hardwood Species and Finishes, a 29-p., full-color guide to 2l species in clear, light, medium and dark stains, is free from The Hardwood Council. P.O. Box 525, Oakmont, Pa. I 5 I 39; (412) 281-4980.

Guiding Light

A technical guide to a new light diffusing acrylic molding and exlrusion compound is free from Cyro, 100 Enterprise Dr., P.O. Box 5055, Rockaway, N.J. 07866: (800) 631-5384.

Flex Your Moulding

A 92-p. catalog of flexible mouldings made fiom syntactic polymer material is free from Ultra-Flex, (800) 344-5293.

Just

Like The Old Days

A catalog of period light fixtures and house parts is free from Rejuvenation, 2550 NW Nicolai St., Portland, Or. 97210:(503)231-1900.

A Well Lighted Bind

A full-color binder of architecturally designed interior lighting fixtures for commercial. institutional and residential use is available from TSAO Designs, 570 Barnum Ave., Bridgeport, Ct. 06608; (8'71) 966-9ss9.

Building Products Spread

A 50-p. catalog of hardwood plywood and mouldings; a l4-p. catalog of MDF primed mouldings, and an 8-p. catalog of ornaments, accessories and hardwood appliques are free from Reel Lumber Service, P.O. Box 879, Anaheim, Ca. 92805: (7 14 632- I 988.

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Your Window

A 6-p., full-color guide to choosing residential windows is free Milgard Windows. (800) 562-0402.

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Payless Cashways Closing All Stores

Admitting to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court that it had no funds to continue operations, Payless Cashways is liquidating the entire I l0-unit chain.

The announcement came four weeks after launching liquidation sales at 39 locations (see Sept., p. 48) that would have left the chain with about 70 stores in l3 states.

But Payless was unable to convince the majority of its vendors to resume shipments, violating terms of its interim financing agreement. According to Payless, "Despite all efTorts to obtain adequate trade credit support, attract outside sources of capital and/or find a viable buyer for either the company or its assets, (we) were unable to do so and do not expect to do so in the future."

Study Reconfirms CCA Safe

A new scientific analysis has reconfirmed that there is no undue health risk from the use of CCA treated wood. Conducted by Gradient Corp., the human health risk assessment evaluated incidental ingestion and dermal exposure to arsenic in soil located beneath a CCA treated structure, and incidental ingestion of arsenic dislodged from the surface of treated wood. The findings concluded that the estimated health risks from the inorganic arsenic in CCA treated wood fell within the EPA's acceptable risk limits.

Scott Ramminger, president of the American WoodPreservers' Institute, said, "This study confirms decades of earlier research demonstrating that CcA-preserved wood does not pose undue risks to human health. Our industry continues to make safety a primary concern and to inform consumers of the proper handling of this time-tested, safe product."

AWPI is currently implementing an enhanced program to let consumers know about the safe handling of CCA preserved wood, including new safe-handling labels for the wood (see Aug., p. 7).

Wood Floor Standards Revised

The National Oak Flooring Manufacturers Association has adopted new standards to define acceptable configuration and tongue and groove fit for solid wood flooring.

The standards establish maximum allowable tolerances for overwood as well as new tolerances for side matching, flooring width, and end match squareness.

The new standards establish a maximum tolerance for overwood of .020" for No. I common or better and .030" for No. 2 common flooring. Overwood is the allowable thickness difference between boards at the time of manufacture.

The association also set standards for factory finished flooring: .012" for prime grade, .016" for standard grade, and .020" for tavern grade. The tolerances are tighter for factory finished flooring because they are expected to result in an acceptable floor with no onsite sanding.

"The problem is, if there is a wide range of thicknesses in unfinished flooring delivered to the job site, the installation contractor will be forced to sand off more wood than he should have to in order to achieve a quality wood floor," said NOFMA technical services director Mickey Moore.

All standards must be met in order to retain NOFMA certification for flooring quality standards.