Mending Cracked Linoleum
Dear Aunt Daisy, I wonder if you can help me. Linoleum has been very difficult to buy, but a few days ago I thought I was very fortunate in getting a big bundle at an auction sale. Imagine my disappointment on opening it to find it had been rolled up for a long time, and that it cracked as I opened it. I wonder if there is any way of softening it. In the meantime, I have left it rolled.-Matiere. I think you can manage as another Link in the Daisy Chain did, when fitting up an old back room as a sun porch for 2 sick friend, She enlarged the windows and hung them with soft lavender curtains, and painted the walls, but the problem was the floor. This she covered with old broken bits of lino‘leum of different pattern, cracked, and with little holes-in places. She filled all holes and cracks with putty and smoothed the surface, then painted it lavender with a good linoleum paint. The effect was splendid-just like new lincleum. She even made her own putty --a pound of whiting and a teaspoon of salt worked well with raw linseed oil, a little at a time.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 228, 5 November 1943, Page 19
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204Mending Cracked Linoleum New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 228, 5 November 1943, Page 19
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