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There are several methods anyone can use to clean up or strip old hardware. These methods fall into two catagories: Wet and dry. Let me start with the WET methods: Wet methods almost always require reactive solvants. Not every solvant is some nuclear solution in a hazmat drum that will drop through ...
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Just out of curiosity, did you actually use plaster or did you use joint compound and refer to it as plaster? This is important because many people inocently think they are the same thing and they are not. Plaster is plaster and joint compound is not. Joint compound is a manmade concoction with viny...
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I recently bought a home with hardwood floors throughout that were carpeted over. I plan on removing all of the carpeting and refinishing the hardwood floors to original (1930s). The first room that I started in I hit a speed bump. I removed the carpeting and found that there are alot of paint spill...
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Has anyone done this? I have a Victorian copper tub (seems to be double walled). The copper is hidden under several coats of paint. The tub has an oval mahagony lip that is in perfect shape. Id like to get rid of the paint and get back to the copper but I dont know if its feasible or what to use? Se...
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As a Historical Restoration Contractor, we often run into problems with older homes that someone has done work on, that just didnt turn out quite like they had hoped and then they put the place up for sale and the next owner calls us and says fix it. Most of the time it turns out that it was a poor ...
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Hi - I had a bathtub refinished last year with a high degree of success. Check among your local service providers for bathtub refinishing. Its not expensive, it takes most of a day, the equipment used includes a loud fan and chemicals to peel the old surface. It is noisy and it smells, but it may be...
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If you just want to see whats there, you could try stripping the paint off a small section with a chemical stripper. The linen is probably just the bottom layer, intended to smooth the wall prior to papering. It should make removal of the layers above it fairly easy as its much stronger than the pap...
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We just bought a 1903 house that had carpeting and several layers of linoleum in the kitchen. We peeling it all out and found original wood floors underneath. BUT, the edges of the linoleum were adhered with black tar and the rest with what I think is called caramel glue (or something like that) wit...
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I have a home that was built in 1923 and its got tons of character, i want to bring out some of the beauty of the wood that was built into the home in the form of oak trim (baseboards, window and door trim). The problem is that there are 80 some years of white paint on the wood. Ive started strippin...
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Perhaps you did not read the first post very carefully. The tub does not need refinishing on the inside. That is the only place tat would be enamel. They want to do the outside hense the word EXTERIOR. If the tub is not rusty and just painted you would have to remove the old paint. I would use a che...
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