I Got It! I Got It!

What, you ask, makes me so happy?

I took the recommendation of several blogs who used them and liked them. Jeanne at The House in Progress gives a very good review http://www.houseinprogress.net/archives/000108.html.

Clarke didn't think he would be able to make one like Dave at Ocean Manor House http://www.oceanmanorhouse.com/paintremover.html.

The cost of the product which was about 450.00 Canadian after exchange but what frightened me was the cost of getting it across the border. You never seem to tell what you are going to get charged. I certainly didn't want to be charged half of the product like I did with the electric paint remover. It is on the left. It cost about 100.00 Canadian with the exchange but I got charged 49.00 by UPS to get it across the border

It strips paint alright but I might as well had just kept at it with the heat gun. I found that it was easier to scorch the wood with it.

Finally I found a Canadian distributor and I ordered the Silent Paint Remover. Clarke used it around the kitchen windows and he thought it worked really well on flat surfaces. I used it on the back door and it worked well there as well. It is rather large and I haven't quite gotten used to manoeuvring it around the windows I am restoring so I feel more confident with just the heat gun. I really have to get some pictures of those windows.

I will keep you posted on my experiences with my new toy.

Nancy

Where did the time go?

I can't believe that it has been so long since I posted. Summer just sped by. We were working on the house over the summer I just have been negligent about posting. At nights I seemed to be too tired and I kept saying tomorrow but tomorrow, it seems, has taken months. So to get you up to date.

Our bees have grown since the summer. We started with about 3000 and our bee keeper extraordinaire, Wes, he is helping us with our bees. He estimates that we have about 30, 000 now.

Here he is checking the hives.

What he is doing is checking for queen eggs. You have to destroy them so that another queen isn't born and cause the hive to split. I learn all this stuff from a distance because you aren't getting me any where near 30,000 bees!

The bees are all feed and tucked into their hives for the winter.

The last project I blogged about was my porch project. In my last post we had torn out the bottom piece and replaced the two large posts and some boards at the top. Next we had to decide what to do for spindles. So I checked out the Internet. I found some I liked and we tried to reproduce them.

I really liked them and was so pleased thinking that I was going to have spindles that not too many people would have. Isn't it funny I now have seen at least two houses in our community with similar spindles that I never noticed before. No they didn't copy me I just never noticed their spindles before. Maybe I copied subconsciously.

We have other porches that we are going to put these spindles on and I think it will give the house a nice finished look.

Here is Clarke's mother making sure everything is level.

yes I do something besides taking pictures..... I did the painting and to prove it here I am in about 100 degree weather.

Overall I am quite please with how the porch is turning out. All the painting including the trim is done. We fixed the parts of the cement that was crumbling but we never got the stain put on the step before it got too cold. I had wanted to put on hard rock, you know the stuff that looks like gravel but it was going to be too expensive especially if we had to repeat it on other porches for continuity, so I went with a stain. I am also making a stained glass light for the porch, that too isn't finished.

Here is the porch so far

Nancy