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01Dec/03

Bedroom 2 – Heat Register Completed

December 1, 2003Bedroom 2jeff

I used some liquid paint stripper to remove the dark brown paint, and then sandpaper and steel wool to smooth down any paint imperfections.  When everything was as clean and smooth as

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20Nov/03

Bedroom 2 – Heat Register Deconstruction

November 20, 2003Bedroom 2jeff

It was a fairly nice day today, as far as November goes.  So, I took advantage of it and brought the heat register outside to disassemble and clean it. The grate part

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14Nov/03

Bedroom 2 – Reinstalling The Woodwork

November 14, 2003Bedroom 2jeff

With the floor refinishing complete, it’s now time to reinstall the rest of the woodwork.  We laid out the pieces along the walls where they needed to go. The other pieces of

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14Nov/03

Bedroom 2 – The Floor Completed

November 14, 2003Bedroom 2jeff

We left the room closed up for 3 days after applying the second coat of clear coat.  When we opened the door, we were amazed at how nice the floor turned out.

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11Nov/03

Bedroom 2 – Window Deconstruction

November 11, 2003Bedroom 2jeff

Time to get started on restoring the old windows.  There are a lot of advantages to restoring your old wooden windows rather than having them replaced with new vinyl windows.  The main

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11Nov/03

Bedroom 2 – Clear Coating The Floor, Coat 2

November 11, 2003Bedroom 2jeff

After the first coat of clear coat had dried for 24 hours, we lightly sanded it with a hand sander using 120 grit sandpaper.  The main objective here is to just scuff

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10Nov/03

Bedroom 2 – Clear Coating The Floor

November 10, 2003Bedroom 2jeff

Clear coating was done in the same method as the staining.  The key is always keeping a “wet” edge. Detail of the clear coating process.

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07Nov/03

Bedroom 2 – Staining The Floor Completed

November 7, 2003Bedroom 2jeff

Once the first coat of stain was dry, a second coat was added.  The old fir floors soaked up the stain really well, so it only took two coats of stain to

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