MODERN BOILERS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 24, 28 July 1927, Page 6

MODERN BOILERS

Blogauco and taste in the front part of the house may interest a man, but the first thing a woman looks at, if sho is to occupy the place, is tho arrangements at tho other end. If the kitchen and washhouse are modern, she will have time to make tho living-room co3y and homelike, and this is why so many of the Hudson's boilers are being installed in Wellington. They save time, heat, and annoyance, and they are clean to work, and boil easily in half the time of the old kind. In every new homo they are to be seen going in, because they ara compact, reliable, economical in use, and retain the heat indefinitely, owing to tho material used in their construction, pumice concrete, which is a non-conductor of heat. ,A Wellington lady who has one finds that she can light tho copper at about 5 p.m., and let the firo burn out. She has hot water before dinner, and without further heating can uso the same water for washing up, and- later iv the evening it is still hot enough to have a bath. Hudson boilers boil rapidly, about a minute to the gallon, and tho water does not merely simmer, but bubbles furiously. There is no chance of it boiling over though, because o£ the flange on the top of the frame, .which keeps tho water from splashing about. Euilt of reinforced pumice concrete, these boilers are practically indestructible. In ono case, where tho houso was completely destroyed by firo, the only thing left of any uso was tho Hudson boiler, and the same boiler was built into tho new house, because it was just as goocl as over. There is no danger, if tho copper is built inside the houso, of the flames escaping to catch woodwork, as is so often the case with brick-ed-in insido coppers, which aro neglected so long as tho chimney draws, until flaws invisible from the front load tho fiorco heat to the woodwork at the back, when tho home is often destroyed. Bricks arc great conductors of heat,, and their uneven expansion and contraction every time the boiler is-lit is more than tho best brick-laying can stand. The result is the-unsightly and dangerous cracks seen in nearly ovory brick copper. Thoso who are about to repair their brick coppers should replace them by Hudsons, The simple manner iv which tho compact Hudson takes tho place of tho old pilo of bricks, still making usa of tho existing brick chimney, makos it wasteful to do anything else but put it in, because it is thoro as long as the house, and will cost nothing more. Extra flue lengths and full instructions aro issued by the cpinpauy, so that any handy man can put his own Hudson in at no expense beyond its cost. Boilers, aro made to fit allsizes of coppor, and so tho olil copper can bo put in the new boiler if desired. Thoso interested in this phase of tho Hudson boilers can 300 tho whole process explained by brick modols at tho stall at the Winter Show, where there aro countless other things to interest the lady of tho house, including reinforced concroto washtubs of tho same impervious, fine-surfaced material, which may. be used on either wooden supports or tho concroto pedostals supplied by tho makers, as porraanout as tho tubs. Mention should not bo omitted iof tho gas coppers in roin-forcod pumico concrete, oven more compact than the ordinary typo. Who in Wellington has not been troubled by smoke blowing down tho chimney? There is always one wind in which the chimney will not draw too well. To ro nicdy this Hudson's supply Robinson's 'Louv.ro chimney top, guaranteed toremedy this trouble.

Those who aro putting in open iiroplaoes or kitchen rangos should see tho Hudson reinforced pumice concrete chimneys, aud fireplaces, mado in all the usually required sizes, roady to erect. The prico depends on tho size and height of tho chimney, and thoro is tho advantage that flue blocks to extend the chimney to any dosirod hoight aro procurable, while, if a shorter ohimnoy is desirod, the fluo blocks not nocked havo not to bo paid for.

Tho universal uses of concrete are to-day appreciated by everybody, but there are many novolties in roady-mado concrete fitments to be used about tho homo or farm, or in odd drainage jobps, that will Havo the owner timo and tho trouble of making special moulds, guaranteeing at tho same timo perfect Btrongth and finish, to bo seen at Hudson's stand at tho Show, which tiro made by tho Hiuno Pipe Co., Ltd., for whom they are agents. Theao include septic tanks, scwerago pipes, paving slabs (also suitablo for tho garngo or WPshhouse), split pipes for drains, ornaraonta.l columns for tho . verandah support, clothes posts, fencing posts, and ovon <i oonoreto garden roller (wato'r ballasted). Other lines are water troughs, pig troughs,. salt. pans and pipos measuring from 4 feet in diamotor down to '1 inches, which nro used for culverts or scwerago work. Tho floodgates aro also amongst othor concreto lines procurable It is interesting to noto that tho now tolophono boxes, one at tho Island Bay terminus and the other at tho intersection of Coutts stroot and Onopu road, Kilbimie, aro reinforced concreto products made by tho Hume Company for tho Government.

Full lists of all theso products, with information and advice as to their installation, may be obtained from Hudson's Concrete Co.,<> Ltd., Beehive Chambers, 71, Courtenay place, opposite the Wellington Gaß Company, where inquiry by correspondence will bo welcomed.—(Published l>y arrangement).