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How To Care For Your Carpet The Lost Art Of Vacuuming By Veronica Steers (NU) —Like most other household investments, carpet ages. It loses co'or and luster long before the individual carpet fibers begin to wear down, and the carpet appears “old” or “worn out.” One way to slow the carpet aging process is through proper care and maintenance. Soil- and stain-resistant treatments, such as Scotchgard Carpet Protectors, add durability. Combined with proper cleaning techniques, these treatments enhance the lifetime of the average residential carpet. Vacuuming Carpet sweepers are good for occasional spot cleaning. Sweepers pick up strings, crumbs, paper or other loose, dry litter from the carpet’s surface. But to really prolong the life of your carpet, regular, thorough vacu uming is needed. These cleaning tips will help: • Vacuum cleaners with a motor driven brush and a beater bar raise the carpet’s pile and Smoothtop Ranges Complement Any Kitchen Decor The new hot look in American kitchens is the smoothtop range. Whether the style is modem, con temporary or traditional, smoothtop ranges and cooktops complement any kitchen decor. Besides being good-looking, these popular new ranges heat up quickly, cook marvelously and clean up with ease. The key to their success is the remarkable Ceran glass-ceramic panel, which was developed by Schott Glaswerke specifically for smoothtop cooking. Ceran glass-ce ramic panels are smooth, non porous and stain-resistant. Spills wipe up easily with a paper towel and a recommended cleaner, while bumed-on spills clean up quickly with a razor-blade scraper. The Ceran panel is also amazingly tough. Even ice water spilled on a red-hot cooktop causes no damage. Smoothtop cooking systems, while still relatively new to the United States, were introduced nearly 20 years ago in Europe and have been thoroughly tested and proven. Millions of smoothtops with Ceran glass-ceramic cooktop panels are now in daily use. There are a number of features you should ask about when shopping for a smoothtop range or cooktop. For example, heating elements. There are two primary types-radiant and halogen-and a third more exotic and expensive type, induction. Radiant elements are the most common and least expensive. They use electrical resistance to create heat, and reach maximum tempera ture in seven to 10 seconds. Heat is conducted through the Ceran cook top panel into the pot or pan. Halogen elements use halogen TF.N TIPS FOR TASTY TOMATOES When tossing your next garden salad, remember this... for extra color and flavor, nothing beats homegrown tomatoes. Backyard varieties of just about any tomato are healthier and tastier thin their supermarket counterparts because they can be picked at the peak of freshness and grown without harmful pesticides and chemicals. If you’d like to grow your own tomatoes, try following these ten helpful hints from the experts at The Scot is Company, manufacturers of Peters Professional* Ibmato Food • Purchase only high -quality seeds; avoid low-yielding “bargain" specials • Start seeds indoors in nays of loose well-drained soil about eight weeks !>efnre transplanting them outdoors. • Keep the temperature of the seedling mixture around 80° 85° until sprouts are up; then turn heal down to about 65° - 70 0 • (live seedlings at least 12 hours of bright light daily. • Move grow n transplants outdoors when air and soil are warm, and there’s no sign of frost. • Plant roots deeply, straight down or “trench” style, covering as much stem as possible to promote additional sprouting • Feed tomatoes with Peters Professional* Tomato Fix id every seven to 14 days depending on the growing rvde. This water-soluble plant food has an NPK of 17-17-22 plus a full minor elements package to give tomatoes the nutrients needed for healthy root systems, strong stems and great budding and fruiting Remember, transplants and established plants need different amounts of fixid. so follow package instructions for recommended (loses. 4 Apply an organic mulch of stiaw or leaves to warm (or c<x>!i soil, pievcnt weed growth and help retain moisture. • I 'sc five fixil high wim cages or stake and-weavc trellises to support the glowing plants. • T> encourage fruiting higher up on the . trellis, prune plants oner, removing all branches below the first flower cluster. can more effectively remove dirt and soil. • Carpet experts recommend that you DO NOT use a beater bar vacuum for wool carpeting because it will loosen and weaken the individual fibers. Experts suggest using a suction vacuum instead. • For maximum results, use either an upright or canister-type vac uum cleaner set at a height that gives slight resistance to pushing and pulling over the carpet. • Lightly vacuum heavy traffic areas, such as entrance ways and hallways, daily. Vacuum the entire carpet thoroughly at least once a week, being sure to reach areas underneath furniture. • To avoid “spot crushing,” or indentations caused by heavy fur niture, periodically shift the posi ' tions of larger items in the room. • Household traffic causes cut-pile carpet fibers to assume different angles, making the carpet appear darker in places. For a uniform . 'Lx T |ps* - . fflß&r a|p / Jyfß| ■■ML * M Jfe. H|h * ?y ®*^'*^^R : ' J|j| " Ottering good look* end easy cleaning, smooth eurface cooktop* and ranges featuring Ceran glass-ceramic panels are becoming a signifi cant trend In new and remodeled kitchens. The Ceran panels are easy to-clean, remarkably resistant to Impact amd are translucent to show the glowing heating element beneath the surface. lamps to generate heat. The halogen elements themselves light up im mediately and reach their maximum temperature almost instantly. Most quality metal cookware will work with either radiant or halogen elements. As is the case with any electric cooktop, you will get best results by matching the diameter of your cookware with the cooking zone. You will also increase the ef ficiency of your range by using pots and pans that have heavy, smooth, flat bottoms. Induction elements are the third and most expensive type of heating element used with smoothtops. NARI Introduces Homeowner Hotline The National Association of the Remodeling Industry, (NARI), headquartered in Arlington, VA, has announced a new toll free number to assist homeowners planning a re modeling project. An industry first, NARI’s "Homeowner Hodine," 800-440- NARI, serves as a resource for homeowners who are considering a remodeling project or have decided to remodel their home. "This is the first time any organi zation involved in the remodeling industry has offered a free call-in service specifically for homeown ers," said Polly Evans, CR, CKD, association president. "We recog nize that die Associadon needs to be available to a group indireedy involved in but direedy affected by our industry-homeowners." Homeowners who call the hodine KUBOTA TI4OO LAWN TRACTOR • 13.5 horsepower • Air-cooled gasoline engine • Overhead valve design • Hydrostatic transmission gives one pedal control for speed and forward, reverse changes • Easy to operate • A variety of implements to choose Kubota Walker-Rhodes 912 Jernigan • Perry 987-1173 40408055.EPS appearance, vacuum all final strokes in the same direction. Don't be afraid to vacuum too often. According to the Association of Specialists in Cleaning and Restoration, an organization for carpet cleaning professionals, daily vacuum ing does not weaken carpet fibers. In fact, clean carpet wears longer because soil particles can wear down and damage carpet yarn. For additional tips on carpet care, send a self-addressed, stamped enve lope to Carpet Care, 3M, Dept. NU, 530 Fifth Ave., 15th Floor, New York, NY 10036. (Veronica Steers is a carpet care and styling consultant based in New York City.) 40408045.TXT News USA With an induction unit, a wire coil under the smoothtop generates a magnetic field which in turn creates heat within a ferro-magnetic pot or pan and cooks the food. These units provide quick heat-up and very pre cise temperature control, but will not work with non-magnetic mate rials such as stainless steel. For more information about smoothtops, you can get a free brochure by writing for "Your Pocket Guide to the Ceran-Top- System", c/o Schot Corporation, Technical Glass Division, 3 Odell Plaza, Yonkers, NY 10701. and inquire about professional re modeling contractors will receive a Please see NARI, page 4C Spring has sprung! / |\ For top quality and 3SZS low prices, It pays to H buy from a grower! DIXIELAND FARMS 2600 Watson Blvd. • Warner Robins, GA • (912) 328-0916 2754 Riverside Drive • Macon, GA • (912) 741-1970 Broxton Hwy. • Fitzgerald, GA • (912) 423-7508 Shed Macon Farmers Market • Elsenhower Pkwy., SPRMffi m MtIVEDI •de vup&it SelecUtM & ‘Penetutiald, *)tt 'TJtccCctte tye&uput Starting at S 2 (HI ea. Roses! Starting at *7 95 • Hybrid Teas • Climbers • Grandifloras • Shrub Roses • Tree Roses • Old Garden Roses • Floribundas • David Austin English Roses New Shipment of Azaleas - *3 5 " ea for 1 gal. Get your flowering trees and shrubs now. 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Most of us resign our selves to high bills because we think that is the price we have to pay for a comfortable home. Many of us run around turning off lights and appliances but would not think off adding insulation to the attic. Why is it foolish to postpone an insulation project? Because lighting and appliances account for a very small proportion of the energy used. Approximately 50 to 70 percent of the energy used in the average American home is for heating and cooling. Another 20 percent of the average is used for water heating. Everything else combined accounts for just 10 to 30 percent of your utility bills. It does not make sense to leave lights and appliances on when not needed, but if you want to substantially reduce Please see INSULATION, page 4C • bedding plants . ♦ vegetable plants i • perennials • herbs I * trees * shrubs • roses I. , . -■ | Beautiful I Hanging Baskets | hundreds to choose from I Wednesday, March 23,1994 Houston Times -Journal- Special Edition - “It’s a matter of responding to the public demand,” explained a spokes man for The Toro Company. However, Lawn-Boy mower special ist Jean Nordgren says simply building mulching mowers is not enough. Just as in other product areas, success for a lawnmowermanufacturer comes down to who's got the best high-tech system. For example, Toro outfits its Recy cler II with a device called “Smart Wheel” which guides the operator to Classic lines for modern times. For timeless lines and construc tion quality, choose the Classic double hung primed wood win dow from Caradco. 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