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New Building Construction Technique 1950

This document summarizes a new building construction technique called Conair that uses a pneumatic gun to project liquid cement against steel forms. The technique allows structures to be built in 12 hours at a cost of less than $5 per square foot. It has been approved by the Los Angeles Building Commission, paving the way for licensing contractors. The first building using this technique is under construction in Van Nuys, California and will serve as a model. The process involves placing reinforcing bars and steel forms, then projecting cement against the forms from the inside using the Conair gun.

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New Building Construction Technique 1950

This document summarizes a new building construction technique called Conair that uses a pneumatic gun to project liquid cement against steel forms. The technique allows structures to be built in 12 hours at a cost of less than $5 per square foot. It has been approved by the Los Angeles Building Commission, paving the way for licensing contractors. The first building using this technique is under construction in Van Nuys, California and will serve as a model. The process involves placing reinforcing bars and steel forms, then projecting cement against the forms from the inside using the Conair gun.

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408 CURRENT TOPICS [J. F. ].

New Building Construction Technique.--The new Conair process of con-


struction for everything from small homes to large super-structural buildings,
(described on p. 262 of the March JOURNAL), was approved recently by the
Los Angeles Building Commission. This approval by the Commission now
paves the way for Conair Sales, Inc. to release their national program for
licensing contractors to use their exclusive process for building these all-steel
reinforced concrete units.
This enables the individual contractor to offer the public a lifetime home,
school, or all-purpose building at a cost of less than five dollars per square foot.
All this is made possible by the invention of the Conair gun which pneu-
matically projects liquid cement, mixed with insulation, water-proofing and
other essential ingredients against steelforms and the sensational new Fiberglas
balloon roof.
This new device results in a structure which can be put up in twelve hours
and which can be converted into every channel of construction purpose, whether
it be for the individual home or for large industrial purposes.
The first of these is being built in Van Nuys, California, and will be used as
a model for contractors and building trades men who have long had their eye
on this unusual development, one of the unique developments in the past century
of homebuilding.
The manner in which the first Conair structure is being built is through the
following procedure, which would be impossible without the exclusive use of
the fantastic Conair gun. The step by step method, after placing conven-
tional type concrete footings to meet local code requirements, is to place 1-in.
steel reinforcing bars 8-in. deep in footing on 36-in. centers and to a height of
8 ft. at top. After roughing in plumbing, the outside wall forgns are secured on
footings and bolted securely together. The window and door frames can be
placed in any desired position against the inside of steel forms by hanging wires
from top of forms without altering original architectural plan. Wire mesh is
then placed on all forms and tied to vertical ½-in. bars so that it will be held in
center of 4-in. wall. Window and door frames are tied to mesh. The electric
conduit is then placed in the usual manner. From the inside, the cement is
projected through the Conair gun against all outside forms to a thickness of
4 in. and to a height of 8 ft. Wall partitions are made in the same manner but
to a thickness of 3 in. The Fiberglas balloon is secured to outer edge of steel
forms and after inflating the balloon, the same gun process is utilized projecting
cement from outside against Fiberglas balloon. This is all sprayed with special
moisture-proof paint. Interior walls may be papered, painted or paneled.
This final process makes the Conair building fire, earthquake and vermin
proof, and eliminates most maintenance costs.
Detailed information regarding this new building development can be ob-
tained from the offices of Conair Sales, Inc., 12147 Riverside Drive, North
Hollywood, Calif.

Grease solvents may be easily reclaimed by filtering the used liquid


through an ordinary automobile oil-filter element, according to a mechanic who
tried the method at the Barstow (Calif.) Marine Corps Depot of Supplies.
Two containers, in the form of old oil cans, were rigged one above the other,
with a salvaged filter element between the two, fitted over a l-inch pipe at the
bottom of the upper can. Straight savings are realized, since all parts are from
salvage ordinarily found in garages.

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