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Paint Removal :: Using a Professional Re-Finisher
0September 15, 2009
by jb
in working with pros
So . . . you might have read my rant on hastily painted hardware. And maybe you have stayed with me long enough to know that I have a tendency (with this current house) to restore rather than replace.
Early on, when we had that decent painter, he was nice enough to remove the shutters from the building before painting its body. Twenty-four windows on the house proper makes for 48 individual shutters, 96 hinges, which themselves when broken down gave us 192 hinge parts. [ . . . ]
Working with an HVAC Contractor in an Emergency Situation
0December 9, 2008
. . . Basically, there are two types of gas or oil-fired residential heat. Forced air and/or hot water/steam Radiant. Now, I have said this frequently, I mean, you can't hardly walk down the street without bumping into a Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning (HVAC) guy that knows his fair share about your forced air furnace. The boiler guy, however, is a little bit more of a rare breed. His markings with four wheels and the words on the side paired as such: "Plumbing AND Heating. [ . . . ]
