Thursday, August 12th, 2010
Although I'm arriving fashionably late to the announcement party, I couldn't be more thrilled to renew my partnership with True Value Hardware through the 2010 True Value DIY Blog Squad.
This time around, the squad has swelled to a total of 10 sites with a great mix of DIY and home ...
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
We may be far enough into 2010 for some people to have made and broken new resolutions, but I'm not yet through reflecting on 2009 and planning for the year ahead. Sure, I could beat myself up about the backlog of unfinished projects I'm carrying forward into the new year-- ...
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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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