Its been a busy week. As you probably expected, we celebrated the 4th of July by working on our little piece of history. We got to enjoy some fireworks thanks to the new shopping center just up the road from us. They put on a pretty nice show. Of course, a few local morons and idiots felt the need to set off illegal fireworks in the middle of our neighborhood and risk loss of their digits, eyesight, etc.One of our favorite sporting events has also begun...the Tour de France. We'll spend most evenings over the next couple of weeks watching it on OLN and listening to their genius commentator call it the Two ur deeeee Frantz.
The infrared paint stripper arrived last week and has been put to use on several occasions. This contraption works wonders on paint. If the paint is newer and holds enough moisture, it will scrape off like icing from a cake. The older, drier paint puts up more of a fight, but still comes off fairly easily (as compared to using a chemical stripper). Its hard to strip paint from crevices and rounded trim with the infrared device. We'll probably have to use a chemical stripper on these. Either way, it's a slow and tedious process.
The wall in the pictures above is bead board in the kitchen. The exposed wood isn't particularly attractive, so the board will have to be repainted. There was too much old paint on the wood to paint over. The removal of the old paint should also help with the stench reduction process.
