Saturday, March 31, 2007

Procrastinator

Since returning from my California vacation I haven't done anything to the house except my normal housecleaning. Once you clean up the mess (which I always do before a vacation) you hate to start working and creating another mess.

But I have been busy. I launched my new personal website that I'm pretty pleased with. I'm going to set up another one like it for this blog. It should go a lot faster now that I kind of know what I am doing. With the new website, my pictures and blog will be together and organized with pages of video, also. Which reminds me that I promised a video on applying shellac. I hope I can deliver.

But for now, at least today, it isn't raining or snowing and the temperature isn't freezing and you know what that means.....see ya on the water fishing!

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Monday, January 29, 2007

Free Historic Home Repair Videos-Interesting

I'm always searching for free home improvement videos. If you like looking at "how-to" videos you may want to check these guys out. It is very interesting how they repaired some antique beams and clapboards, etc. These may give someone an idea of how to attempt some of these things. See their link below. It's free, when you get to their site, just click on their links.

o Timber Repairs
o Exterior Wood 1, Clapboard Repair
o Exterior Painting 4: Surface Prep, Wet Abrasive Scrub
o Exterior Painting 2: Steam Paint Removal
o Exerior Painting 3: Ground Protection, Joint Cleaning
o Steam Paint Removal, testing
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http://historichomeworks.phovi.com/

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