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Hi Pam: I once had to put in some copper piping for water service that the customer wanted to look like it had been there a long time. So we rubbed it with some cut lemons, then white vinegar on a rag. Then we tried a little bit of CLR, but the lemon and vinegar treatments took some time and by the ...
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I have some old weathered hand hewned beams that I would like to finish and use in our family room. What types of stain or treatment is required to reduce the grey weathered look?
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IF YOU ARE MEASURING YOUR OLD TUB AND ARE COMING UP WITH THOSE DIMENSIONS - YOU MOST LIKELY HAVE A 30 X 60 AND THE WALL TREATMENTS (TILE,WALLBOARD) ARE MOST LIKELY COVERING THE TILE-FLANGE AND YOU ARE NOT GETTING THE TRUE DIMENSIONS OF YOUR CURRENT TUB. 59 X 29 IS NOT A STANDARD SIZE AND WILL BE REA...
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I have recently inherited some excellent end and coffee tables that are made of cherry wood that have partial leather tops on them. Does anyone have any suggestions/ideas on how to clean/condition them? They obviously need different kinds of treatment: any suggestions? Thanks.
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Im trying to find info on how my new house, which was build in 1850 in New Jersey along a railroad stop (presumably the village of 50 houses was built for railroad workers) would have been decorated. So, it would have housed a working class family. I am specifically needing window treatments for the...
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The house is located in Colorado, south of Colorado Springs, an area that was known as a place with a climate favorable for the treatment of T.B. The house, which is all brick with very few framed walls, was built by a banker and his wife we think came from the east. The room is kind of seperate fro...
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It is a lot of work to clean but so wonderful when finished. As for the mineral oil to put back into it, I wondered why I always choked up and coughed so much when I went into the room where it was. I looked up some info about mineral oil and it isnt good for anyone to breath in! This is just a port...
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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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