The Historic District

Frost-king or whatever was still selling it as far as I remember. Upside is it's so cheap that you can redo it as needed. Only the sides with sun exposure go bad. There are actually polymers that would hold up to UV better, or they could add some white lead to the mix, right? m Casey Casey, Thank y...

In early 2001 I started refinishing my various windows used in the construction of our 1927 Craftsman type home modeled after a Sears plan. The 'V-Seal' tape worked very well as long as it was never exposed to sunlight, which killed it pretty quickly and eventually caused 3M to take it off the marke...

Our 1927 house modeled after two Sears craftsman home plans, has windows that were removed from a schoolhouse in 1925, that was built in 1860 in PA. These windows were stored for future use by carpenters that later installed them in our house in 1927. Unfortunately sometime in the early 1960's alumi...

Yea? What kind of car stuff? I was doing old cars before old houses. My car background is at this link http://www.mye28.com/tech/rods_pages/index.html which was up until late 2013, when I sold the BMW. Current stuff involves a 2015 VW Golf R and road racing, but no longer adding to this web site. N...

Hi, nice house and documentation, I like the matching garage, is the upstairs of that finished or is it storage? It's finished and heavily insulated. It was my office when I worked out of my home, still my office but configured differently now. The garage is also heavily insulated and is where I st...

SNIP... Rodpaine I just have to know... with the gravel you added to your driveway how do you combat the weeds? So no one finished the exterior wall of your house at the porch roof??? Wow that was a sleezy shortcut by the builder. Your house looks great!!!! The driveway is 12-inches deep and just a...

A LONG OVERDUE UPDATE - My orginal web site material posted on oldhouseweb.com and hosted by Verizon went away long ago when Verizon decided to quit hosting web sites for its telephone customers. My original material is now back online hosted by an automobile forum I am a member of, with my old 1927...