Sponsored by: Wanamaker Restoration, Champlain Valley Millworks, and Green Mountain Window
Topic: Historic Wooden Window Restoration
Place: 16 Kilburn Street (next to Conant Custom Brass), Burlington, VT
Date: May 23, 2009
Time: 9AM-4PM
Price: $70 members / $80 non-members
Workshop Overview: Due to a dwindling amount of craftspeople with the skills to properly restore historic windows and […]
Entries Tagged as 'lead paint'
2009 Historic Wooden Window Workshop
May 4th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: lead paint · maintenance · windows
A Great Presentation by Another Old Window Lover
April 30th, 2009 · No Comments
Hisoric Windows
Tags: Value-Added Historic Preservation · lead paint · maintenance · windows
How to Restore an Old Window
April 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment
Stay tuned for a video on “How to restore and maintain old windows.”
Tags: Champlain Valley Millworks · Wanamaker Restoration · lead paint · maintenance · windows
“My Paint is Peeling”
March 29th, 2009 · No Comments
“Why is my paint peeling in spots and what can I do about it?” We hear this all of the time so here are a couple of thoughts and suggestions.
Old houses inevitably have original oil paint as the sub-straight beneath newer latex top coats. My perennial suggestion is to paint oil on top […]
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Risk for asbestos and lead in plaster and paint!!!!
February 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
Hi Ron,
Today we decided to rip off wallpaper in our bedroom down to the plaster. Later reading about old plaster we discovered there is a risk for asbestos and lead in plaster and paint!!!! We are concerned about being exposed! How can you tell if our walls contain asbestos/lead? We only took […]
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