tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11904671.post4828574441909015722..comments2023-08-25T03:21:41.842-07:00Comments on The Petch House: The Next Big ThingGreghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02807710209656158413noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11904671.post-28495556212518682332010-05-16T20:25:12.196-07:002010-05-16T20:25:12.196-07:00Oohhhh! I can't wait to see the magic worked ...Oohhhh! I can't wait to see the magic worked on the Foyer at the Petch House! <br /><br />On this site: http://www.ourvictorianhouse.com/Second%20Floor%20Hall.htm<br />and scroll down the page to the "Third Floor Ceiling and Walls" you can see where a temp platform with a trap door was built to assist in demo. Maybe you can fashion a platform of sorts for your needs.HPHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05450634161067018781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11904671.post-15657079018645097442010-05-16T14:55:48.096-07:002010-05-16T14:55:48.096-07:00I see it as one project, really. I will do all of ...I see it as one project, really. I will do all of the plaster in both the foyer and stairs as one project. I will then do the woodwork as one project. Then floors and stair treads as one project.Greghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02807710209656158413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11904671.post-67309167118332697162010-05-16T12:50:15.689-07:002010-05-16T12:50:15.689-07:00If you start at the top and work down then the mes...If you start at the top and work down then the mess goes down with the work. That and as you work your way down, less stairs and ladders to climb day after day. <br /><br />Albeit there is the psychological boost of the foyer first as your work your way up. <br /><br />Eagerly awaiting the during and after pics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11904671.post-20264888579714861652010-05-16T06:59:32.872-07:002010-05-16T06:59:32.872-07:00Wow - look at the detail on that woodwork! It is ...Wow - look at the detail on that woodwork! It is gorgeous! The finished project is going to be amazing :-)Diane Irvine Armitagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01775862142053961191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11904671.post-40068729559933525122010-05-15T16:43:27.481-07:002010-05-15T16:43:27.481-07:00Hmmm, technically I guess I started mine about 5 y...Hmmm, technically I guess I started mine about 5 years ago because that is when I stripped out the layers of flooring and wallpaper. Then 3 years ago I did a partial restoration on the stair treads. So really, you could still win if the contest is based on the time it takes start to finish and not so much by who finishes first. <br /><br />;-)<br /><br />GregGreghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02807710209656158413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11904671.post-72052836650873332522010-05-15T16:28:44.444-07:002010-05-15T16:28:44.444-07:00O joy, foyers and stairhalls! I wonder, who'l...O joy, foyers and stairhalls! I wonder, who'll get finished with theirs first, you or me? (I've been working on mine for over two years, if you don't count the early trim paint removal I started messing around with in 2004 or so.)<br /><br />Getting around ladders and scaffolding in stairways is great practice at sucking in the gut. Be glad you have the back stairs available; I'm dealing with one staircase only and four animals I'll have to keep off of it.<br /><br />Howard's Western Wood Doctor Refinisher is great for shellac removal. Plain denatured alcohol (grain, not wood!) can get things started, but is more work. Either way, you won't have to worry about raising the grain.<br /><br />Kate H.<br />www.sowsearhouse.blogspot.comSt. Blogwenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04173870976749288145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11904671.post-4278251824861720612010-05-14T21:46:53.455-07:002010-05-14T21:46:53.455-07:00Glad it's you and not me doing it, lol. I'...Glad it's you and not me doing it, lol. I'm scared of heights.G. Robisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03070905007819533828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11904671.post-86268674053612126702010-05-14T07:28:01.625-07:002010-05-14T07:28:01.625-07:00Thanks for the vote of confidence. Writing that I&...Thanks for the vote of confidence. Writing that I'm starting another project is a way of putting myself on the spot. Now that I've admitted to the blogosphere that I'm going to do it, I feel I really should do it.<br /><br />Karen, I own one of those articulated ladders. In fact I used it in that stairwell when I stripped the wallpaper off the ceiling. If I was just going to paint I could probably get away with using it again. I need to do plaster work though, and that ladder just won't be enough.<br /><br />GregGreghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02807710209656158413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11904671.post-78800938252538483242010-05-14T02:07:49.526-07:002010-05-14T02:07:49.526-07:00Trying to type after being overcome with old house...Trying to type after being overcome with old house envy from those photos :-)...<br /><br />I have to work on my stairwell, removing wallpaper paste and then wallpapering or painting. I saw a ladder on someone else's blog that comes in sections that bend and so on so you can set up different working heights and different heights on each leg. I forget what it's called, but it's for working in stairwells.<br /><br />As usual, I can't find my bookmark for it. I haven't forked out for one yet, because I need to figure out how to figure out the heights I can get. But I am thinking if you use that instead of scaffolding, you might have some flexibility about not having it in place all the time.Karen Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13306986336556283751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11904671.post-80028859241287902842010-05-13T21:30:16.588-07:002010-05-13T21:30:16.588-07:00You have done a great job. I am looking forward t...You have done a great job. I am looking forward to the start of the foyer. I have an old house too, but it is so much easier to live vicariously through another's restoration :)LeighChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04170418697453027897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11904671.post-15239396877356718272010-05-13T20:09:07.305-07:002010-05-13T20:09:07.305-07:00Knowing what I know about you after reading your b...Knowing what I know about you after reading your blog for many years, you'll have that stairwell done in no time .. and make the rest of us look like slackers! :)Northland Storieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01793356276804628420noreply@blogger.com