Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Refinishing doors and trim

Get a look at that pile of trim! It is between 1/3 and 1/2 of the trim I have to strip--I am trying not to get overwhelmed. I also have seven more doors to strip and prime. The Silent Paint Remover has been a life saver. In the second photo the door on the right has just been stripped and sanded and the door on the left has been freshly primed.
We are thinking black semi-gloss for the finish coat. Another simultaneous project is to refinish two stained glass windows we bought from Antique Warehouse of Arkansas. They have twelve warehouses, and if I remember correctly, 6 of them are loaded with old windows from Europe. The ones we picked were from England and are dated 1901, which only predates our house by 19 years. They are going to be installed in the Master Bathroom high up on the wall so we can get some extra light in there while maintaining privacy. I carefully removed the glass from the frames and sanded, cleaned and primed them. Today's projects are to glaze the windows, bring a sample of our clapboard to a mill to see if they can replicate it for us, and to pull the rest of the old nails out of the studs at the house in preparation for the insulator to come tomorrow. Oh, and to call the roofer--we have a leak.









3 comments:

  1. Stripping a few furlongs of trim? Reverse engineering antique stained glass? If this blog was a cop movie, this post would be the point in the movie where one guy turns to his partner and says "This shit just real."

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  2. Yes, Ha ha. Joe was just doing some quick math to wrap his head around what a furlong is, and it is nearly 4,000 Barry's Tea bags lined up end to end.

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