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Stripping Old Paint

Bob chats with Boston loft developer Neal Gold about stripping old paint.
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Stripping Old Paint

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" Okay let's -- at a Neal gold one of the two Brothers developing a lot project here in the elbow -- the original entry here has never been altered. But isn't needed a lot of great. Others several coats of paint that's quite a blue -- appreciate. Well nothing like a chemical strippers over some of these projects in here. What I would start to guess is that although there's maybe three or four layers of battleship gray. The original might be that dark green. One of those two greens that are under there. The greatest -- loaded so that the deep this -- we found so I think we'll probably go without an end here. Yeah yeah now the the interesting thing to notice here is a commercial style building turn of the century we'll at least level Greek decorative details here these little wooden -- They appear on either side of this panel in the middle. And then if you if you look underneath this window -- news fair amount of molding and a nice little bit willing it will. Kind of be restored when you get all that built up paint off of it -- what are you going to do over here where you have -- again battleship gray right on top your nice New England granite."

" Solid concrete granite is it is a bit of a problem that's. That thing's been there awhile I think we'll find his once these strippers and pieces of paper backing it allows us remove it one --"

" Colonial up front yeah that that's probably a better way to go to just with a caustic soda but look at how -- you've just come on. And all the way to the top agency a lot of trees of the dark green and of course you've got. The old and her merchants. Cold storage sign -- there's probably eighty years old what do you do that well I play at this time is to take it down it's it's it's obviously. Hand crafted -- we're gonna do is restore identically uses a decorative element inside the building itself that he put it last night that you very nice touch. And the door itself we have looked dead and you're not going to be able to -- the -- outdoors in Russia by any direct current plan -- to replace -- with steel or reproduction door and then duplicate the original -- get a -- reproduction -- with a big plate glass panel -- glad it was that was part of the -- And you've already changed some of the plate glass in here with thermal panels. They'll look real good but. What's the story where this OSB on the bottom well let's."

" Covering a rotten. Crafted cattle so what we're gonna do is restore the the original I think and we'll put paneling detailed back on that would would solid wood."

" that would -- but of course -- because of the big -- Construction project we don't have the sidewalk grieving in place here right we've got that's a bit of a problem you can see them a lot of a lot of built up -- and stop and I imagine when the city gets. Far enough along with a project they're gonna come down a half a foot. This area of the building is really is usually don't listen this was well this -- a different -- wind loading dock right."

" This. This this area actually Bob was. This has steel shutters it was had a very large steel. Garage door that came down and closed up the entire opening obviously for a future commercial use we would have to do something more serviceable. We've decided to restored back to glass matching the other panels more or less."

" We'll have up operable windows here they'll be a couple of case the windows and operate but it's realize that you're maintaining the feeling -- thing has as Israel saw it. Granite is solid granite. Protection area there and that we got -- plate glass being installed at the other end all right that's right let's go check in with these guys -- And here comes Bob George -- later with replacement. You know this is this opening is a very good example of -- this whole. Commercial style architecture from the turn of the century when it the big piece of the -- last -- become available in the architect's wildly -- huge plate glass windows."

" Hey Bob I don't -- that pretty. Yeah approximately 200 pounds give or take -- Cabell monitoring that now what was the condition of the original plate glass wise to have -- place well we thought there was a lot of pitting problems. From the age he leaded glass that would have your report turns yellow sunlight. Much easier in my last has led -- that fact I see it feeds him yeah also was not -- blossom again interviewed between seasons. Now -- you and it's Italian and you broke out what was here yeah that's pretty rough rough opening once we remove the old last week had to walk. Clean out all the areas where the new glass going to be put into and we had the placing phone tape don't each vertical jam here. And that'll help as a thermal break between the wood and glass actually have this o'clock that -- it before it correct yeah and what about down here. We'll down here we have to -- the new thermal -- at quarter points on -- blocks. Because if you don't do that you put the glass like we're on the hardwood. You create a stressful yeah which could create -- the old blade was a big thing. What -- dad but -- there's no room to look at being anyhow. Well you have to like through that I don't like election -- will hold the block makes it OK great what about the leaves them in upstairs -- you have to look. -- have appealed his son coating on the -- to keep the dirt off so. Okay look up -- And the only condition that he actually woodwork here is. Pretty awful it is awful I think we'll probably get some boat builders of foxy and -- we can do repair. When the time comes get back to solid material and pick it up it will be indistinguishable when it. Yeah that's one way of restoring and repairing. Without having to make you don't know -- it'll work."

" Handed down here where you've got that the terracotta in film and well what are you gonna do here to restore this area will do a similar treatment here to the other opening we just looked at it will be a panel would would. It's nice that the granite here wasn't painted that a connection with excitement. We're shooting attack that give that clean government Apollo watched and then we've got one more beat it. Opening to reglazed here. And he just as the original is the original factory shutters every window in the building that is at one point loss through the years and he's the only ones left the village there going to keep them. I think we'll try to line this the only close."

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