Outdoor Plywood fior Remodeling Store Fronts

Outdoor plywood opens a wide field of opportunities for remodeling store fronts, states the Harbor Plywood Corporation of Hoquiam, Wash. It is especially useful where the nature of the business and the type of fro,nt appropriate to it do not require the use o{ more elaborate materials and clesigns, as in the case of the Speedwall Company, Seattle and R. A. Champlin Hardware & Lumber Company, Enid, Oklahoma, whose remodeled fronts are shown in the accompanying photographs. Also where moder,n efiects are wanted with a minimum of expense and a maximum of speed and ease of construction, the outdoor plywood is an ideal material, lending itself to paint, stain and plastic finishes with beautiful results.

Everything that can be done with ordinary plywood can be done with the outdoor kind, with the added advantages that make it so perfectly adaptable to outdoor uses. The broad, smooth surfaces, the roun'ded corners, the paneled efiects characteristic of modern design are so easily and as quickly achieved with the outdoor plywood as with the ordinary. But the objectionable features that have heretofore prevented the use of ordinary plywo'od for outdoor construction have been completely overcome in the outdoor kind. Due to the pr'ocess of manu{acture, which virtually rvelds the thin plies into a single, solid panel by means of a binder insoluble in water, the plies cannot separate.

Where joints are desired without battening, the edges, which fit together tightly and evenly, are cut clean, smooth and solid since there are no core voids to cause shattering and roughening when sawed' Joints may be filled and finished over in such a way that no trace of the seam appears -and can be made completely waterproof'

Yard Changes Hands

Growers' Lumber Co., Sunnyvale, Calif., has been sold to A. A. Arends, senior member of the West Bay Lumber Company of Redwood City. Mr. Arends' brother, James B. Arends, will be taken in as a partner and will manage the yard. A. A. Arends will remain at Redwood City to look after his interests there. This corrects the item which appeared in the November 1 issue.

This permits a wide variety of interesting eftects, whether the material is used as a permanent part of the structure or to make forms for concrete walls. For the latter purpose the outdoor plywood has been known to be re-used as many as fifty-five times without showing any signs of ply separation, which is convincing evidence of the moisture resistant properties of the material.

Panels of this outdoor type of plywood can be secured in all sizes up to 5 feet wide by 12 leet long-and in thicknesses lrom r/g inch up to Zfu, inches.

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Taylor Visits Pacific Coast

L. O. Taylor, general manager of the Shevlin Pine Sales Co., Minneapolis, Min.n., was a recent visitor at the company's sawmill operations at Bend, Ore., and McCloud, Calif., and their San Francisco office. He attended the retailers' annual convention at Del Monte after which he left for New Orleans to attend the meeting of the National Lumber I\Ianufacturers Association.

Good assoffirent of stock at San Pedm available for immediate deliverry.