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WEEKEND EXTRA September It imi Dont let them pull over your eyesBBB Buying a new carpet on that new carpel Herald Special With carpeting and rugs you can add plenty of color and some sound conditioning lo home but you know the answers to the questions framed below before you make any irlcctio FROM LAST WEEKS MD CARNIVAL TwNty Bird Wendy Fleming II entertained any that came her way enticing them Join In and play ball loss a bargain she chirped Tar only IS cent Andrea proved to be a willing player helping to muscular with her support I Herald photo Tim president of Better Business Bureau of Metro poll tan Toronto where you are on a tight budget or the floors in jour home ore in super condition or frequent business moves room si and area rugs not wall towall carpeting may be your best buy In fabric floor covering The trick here is to pick neutral go with anything colors or decorating variety and flexibility Wall towall carpeting Mr points out is the best buy If floors are unsightly or difficult to keep clean home is already carpeted and the carpeting Is worn to the point of replacement you may not be able to replace with rugs When you peel bach the you may find plywood under not hardwood or resilient flooring under fabric How much carpeting where For comparing carpeting and rug prices you should know how much ma ten you will need befon you go shopping Figure the room s area by measuring thi and length the room and then multiplying figure The bottom line Is he area in square feet Then divide the square fool by lo find the total square yards the room Is to by 12 feet Multiplied this is square feet Divided by It Is approximately 13 square yards Carpeting is sold by the square yard It also is manufactured In widths of 1Z and 15 feel You may have to buy more square yards of carpeting than your calculations call for in order to cover irregular floor shapes If so have a carpel expert determine the final measurements and the amount of carpet ing needed How do t spot quality In fabric Check the depth Heres the good news fitness beats heart disease As you probably know heart disease remains the leading cause of death In Canada But notes many positive signs the number of deaths from bean attack is decreasing More and more people who used drown them selves in gooey desserts are saying No thanks The folks who used to think beef was Ihc only food are discovering ihe delights of seafood and fresh able salads And jogg era And the tennis plaj irs And the people who take a healthy witk on a basts Since announced ago llhal Ihe average earold Swede in bcltir shape thirty veir old Canadian counterpart Canadians gotten into fitness The solution a resolution with snookie to start reducing the number of calories you eat at meal and start replacing your red meat dinners wtlh poultry and fish You II hate to start reading labels and weighing But many guides calorics there arc in a serving of what kind of food are available And after all Hi a small effort when you it s literally a matter of life and death HEART PUMPING Depressing Not all Because ion knows a way you can begin to undo all damage you may have been doing yourself over the years right Exercise I Regular exercise It I even have to be wildly strenuous can bum calories away like a blowtorch All you need Is fifteen minutes of us exercise three or four limes a week and you be doing your heart a world of good Well your heart pro duces a lot of energy enough In two hours to lilt a four ton truck from the floor to the top of your desk In a day your does enough work to fill a large railway lank car with gallons of fluid weighing tons All this and your heart is just the size of your thruway HALTON THRUWAY MUFFLER RAD CENTRE Don t let this happen to you RADIATOR REPAIRS GAS TANK REPAIRS 347 Guelph St Saturday HOURS am a m P Georgetown 8777042 8777823 density and of ihe pili and of Ihe construction and bock ing Bend over a corner of the or rut to determine this As a rule the higher ihe pile and the thicker the tufts Ihe better the carpet or rug Tufted carpet is the most common construction Here need and yarn arc pushed out forming loops or tufts Woven carpeting has surface backing yarns thai are intertwined to nuke a ngle construed on Knitted carpi is woven thi and backing ire interlocked Needle punched carpeting has a core of finer sheet and layers of loose fibers inter locked Most carpeting has a I coating that binds the tufts to backing Some carpel ing has double backing which provides more body to the fabric This backing will hide the latex coating from the backing so you ell the difference In fibers Simplified wool is strong soil resistant and highly resilient is soft and serviceable Acrylic has a long life and is resilient and sail resistant Metallic has a metal fiber that deters sialic while is soil resistant and resilient with a long life feature Nylon has a moisture il strong and abrasion resistant Olefin features strength and water abrasion and gives strength and back it abrasion resist What about padding Carpet cushions padding are orth Ihe cost prolong carpet life and provide a softer mon carpet surface on to walk A medium soft cushion usually provides best for carpet carpet by the room sales a rlpoll Mr Tuz says the sales pitch usually quotes in square feet the floor you want will be larger than the offer specifies When sales person shows up at jour house to be sold spotted An is the refirral scheme You supposedly 0 money on your carpeting by referr mg other tuslomers to the dealer Chances are the cost of your carpet is inflated lo cover the bonus you get through Check lion of Ihc dealer with the before vou enter any deals Still another gimmick Is Ihe industrial or commercial carpet offer The sales person claims thai there is a quantity of quality fabric left over from a hotel or job You of course can at a bargain You generally pay three times what lis worth There are seldom any left overs from commercial tracts What about warranties and contracts A wirran must in writing and exactly what docs and does not cover warrant on wall to- wall may apply to Insl not and perform 1 nee of product A sales should list exactly what are buying labor costs and finance charg Some carpeting may rcqu re it 11 installed If so Mr says ike sure any tabor cost is Included in the total cost and is in Campbells lime Service Equipped la lif tank DoUmlic Always Striving To Serve Belter LIME NOW I OUT CALL 6473448 PAVER SECONDS DISCONTINUED LINES 75 to 95 ft compare to 1 40 to 80 per ft for regular pavers Quantities limited Material can be seen at Unilock Ltd Armstrong Avenue Georgetown Phono 0136 Monday to Friday or by special appointment Urn stone Zurich II Munich Flnetta PARTICIPATING DEALERS Acton Rat Acton H Ltd 30 Armstrong Av 8776931 Art Bouwman Nursery 8782142 Cavan Gardon Centra 5198332117 Dave Sinclair No