The Historic District

Thanks for the information, GibsonGM. My painter only uses Woodscapes with Duration on top of it, and he's been doing this for 35 years. He says that with those two products, he's seen the paint job last 20 years, but the average is 10. My cedar siding was last painted 20 years ago, so it still wasn...

Nobody hurt me, but I'm wondering if we can evolve with the industry and use something other than blopentine. I'm asking this because my house painters used Sherwin-Williams products to paint my house, which has the original cedar siding. They primed with Woodscapes (tinted stain) and then painted w...

Thank you, so do I! It's cloudy today when I took the photo, in the sun in the afternoon it gets similar to yours.

The painters are done!

Now I'm waiting for my Allied storm windows to arrive, probably in September, and then I can slowly go around restoring and painting the wood sashes.

This is some great information! Thank you, guys!

To me that sounds like it's the way to go if you don't want to paint it. I've had a lot of time to just think about interior design, and I've decided to put beadboard on all the walls in the second bedroom upstairs without taking off all the original baseboard/cap/shoe. It's available in 1/8" t...

Thanks, Phil! I'll have to check all the accessible little spaces behind my kneewalls now to see if the PO did block up the rafter tail venting with insulation by mistake. He did a pretty good job, but he put the batting on the roof side instead of the kneewall side. Oh well, I'll deal with that whe...

Long and short of it, I definitely want to find a general contractor or engineer who knows these kinds of structures and can do a walk through with us. It was suggested to me that I contact local historic preservation societies and ask for recommendations, which I've begun doing. But if anyone has ...

It's supposed to get to 90 degrees today here in northeastern Vermont. Yesterday it was 86. The house painters haven't shown up yet, and perhaps wisely decided to take the day off. My new little A/C unit is trying its best to keep the half-storey cool, but I still have to have ceiling fans and other...

The lathe is so pretty on its own in a rustic way, it reminds me of an old barn. Were these other sink markings large kitchen sinks or just little ones? Sometimes every bedroom had its own little sink. For example, every dorm room in the Victorian-era college I attended in the '80's had the little o...