Friday, March 12th, 2010
Apparently the delivery of the drywall for my bedroom project was a big enough spectacle to draw my neighbor to her front yard with camera in hand. Here's the view she saw:
The boom truck lifted 24 sheets of 4' x 12' sheetrock up to the bedroom window opening on the ...
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
In the two months since I finished stripping the paint from the radiator for my bedroom project, I have had some time to work and reflect.
First the reflection: chemical stripping a radiator was tedious, laborious, odious, noxious; in short, a massive pain. I chose chemical stripping after determining off-site paint ...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Continuing the restoration of window frames and hardware I talked about in my last post, this entry completes the restoration of the frame portion of the project bedroom windows with new cord on the sash weights and weatherstripping that will keep these 86-year-old windows comfortably draft-free and energy-efficient.
Sash Cord and Weights
There ...
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Old windows get a bad rap. To listen to the way replacement window marketers tell it, old windows are creaky, stubborn, lead-coated draft monsters possessing a single-minded intent to kill your monthly heating & cooling bills. The current U.S. federal tax rebates for energy efficiency are also helping push window ...
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
A few posts back, I talked about my disappointment with my progress onstripping the paint from the radiator for my bedroom project. With the radiator already partially stripped from a prior session of less-than-satisfying paint removal, I found the chemical strippers I tried either a) didn't work well, or b) ...
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