The Historic District

heartwood wrote:reported

What do you mean by that?

Neighmond wrote:Pretty house! Where in IA is it?

It's in Iowa City.

Thanks for the welcome. I hope my info can help someone in their projects.

I concur, we don't use a heat gun on any component that is attached to the building...heat gun use is on a down draft table in the shop with all the requisite precautions... ...jade How do you secure the piece on the table for scraping? How do you remove paint on the parts that are attached to the ...

I always have a fire ext. and a spray bottle of water near by. Yes, heat guns can be dangerous. The Old Capital in Iowa City, IA at the University of Iowa was undergoing renovation, and the gold covered dome was destroyed. It cost them several Mill $. But a heat gun is a 'lesser of evils' when it co...

I also love to use a heat gun for paint removal. Burning the wood can be a problem if you're not going to repaint. I use a cheap one too. I think a good scraping tool is very important though.

I'm new to this forum. I posted in the how-to section. Our house has a bunch of old (1910) wooden windows made from southern yellow pine. I've just started to put my pics and vids into a blog. My window repair blog Here is a link to my youtube channel. I show a lot of my skills there. my youtube cha...

I'm new to this forum. I've been repairing the wooden windows in an old house for the past 2 years (weekends mostly).

This is my house.


Here is a link to my blog. There are lots of pics, videos and howtos.
My window repair blog