CHAPTER XXXIII

OUTSTRIPPING THE GALE

Weather strips are not the caviar of the building menu--far from it. They are a whole lot more like the roast beef with pan gravy and baked potatoes.

Those of you who bought weather stripping years ago and either put it on yourself or had the town carpenter tack it on, do not believe it is any good, and at best only a “fancy fixing.” But those days are passed and the weather strip has properly outstripped many other things in development and has come to be no hors d’oeuvre but the pièce de resistance of the bill-of-fare. So important has the effect of the strip become that heating and ventilating engineers have been and are to-day carrying on experiments, not to prove their value (no, for this has been proven), but to have exact data to show how much fuel is saved and just how evenly the temperature can be maintained throughout a home under varying conditions of gale and stability outdoors and in. (See