New Building Construction Technique.--The new Conair process of construction 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 pneumatically 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 conventional 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 Β½-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 obtained from the offices of Conair Sales, Inc., 12147 Riverside Drive,