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Re: Christmas Ideas

waldofritz — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:23:18 GMT

Excellent suggestions. Thanks Kim T

Re: Christmas Ideas

Bill K — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:03:47 GMT

Old Sturbridge Village contact info: http://www.osv.org/museum/contact.html ... From: waldofritz To: historichomes@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, November 05,

Re: Christmas Ideas

Bill K — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:55:37 GMT

Hi Kim, The folks at historic Old Sturbridge Village in Massachussets have done a lot of research on early to mid-19th century Christmas traditions. They used

Christmas Ideas

waldofritz — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:22:53 GMT

Does anyone have some suggestions on how to decorate my miners cottage for Christmas circa 1855? The cabin is nearly finished and will be in the Shullsburg,

Re: lead paint

veronicaetal@... — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:43:17 GMT

"mariowalling" mariowalling@... mariowalling wrote: << The largest areas of the house were scraped and sanded to bare wood, and the front under the

Re: lead paint

mariowalling — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:03:17 GMT

I have been in the process for perhaps the past 5 to 7 years of restoring the outside of our 1900 Colonial from the hideous and horribly attached vinyl siding

Re: lead paint

veronicaetal@... — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:47:19 GMT

I think that was the first one we treid and it was completely ineffective. BUT that was on an exterior vertical surface. IIRC it dried before it loosened

Re: lead paint

breuer@... — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:45:07 GMT

Has anyone ever tried those soy paint strippers? Or are those worthless?? I was thinking of window moldings in a room upstairs... Kim Breuer 1914 Craftsman

Re: lead paint

veronicaetal@... — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:28:37 GMT

I am not a fan of chemicals and most of those are all pretty caustic. I tried the "safer" versions on the exterior of our house - they did nothing. The

Re: lead paint

IWitchell@... — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:03:45 GMT

Hi Everyone, When removing paint or old varnish from woodwork to include floors why can't you just use a chemical removal like Formby's. Wouldn't that be much

Re: lead paint

Barbara Blackman — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:42:34 GMT

Thank you both. I will take my varied sanders into Lowe's & see what they have to collect & filter my mess. This is in an area I can screen off from the rest

Re: lead paint

handyinohio — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:41:22 GMT

There really is no easy way to remove any paint, unless you count waiting for it to weather away to nothingness as a technique! There are a few ways that are

Re: lead paint

veronicaetal@... — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:07:30 GMT

I used sanders attached to a vacuum with a HEPA filter for the flat parts and gook for the molding. Locally, paint removal companies would only remove it with

lead paint

asurrealist2004 — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:16:30 GMT

I have a very old house that has peeling lead paint & wonder what is the safest way to remove? I have sanders, scrapers & gook to disolve it. What is the least

Re: Hello

waldofritz — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:14:20 GMT

... day,...Ron&Janine. ***Ron and Janine, Why not tell us about the old family farm and house you're fixing up? Location, style of house, long range plans and