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   luvmuskoka | Jun 14, 2002 01:58pm | #1

   The floors in this house had been covered with wall to wall carpeting for 50 years. The owners had no idea they existed when they bought the house at auction last year. This room is 300 sq. ft. of about 1500 sq. ft. of historic top nail floors.

   There was a little bit of inlay repair required and most of the border pieces needed refastening. I couldn't get all the piano tracks and water marks out as the material is only 5/16" thick and an aggressive sanding will knock the nail heads off. The red rubber carpet backer welded with the old varnish and shellac and the whole floor required a hand scraping (carried many fives of debris out) before the first cut with #36 paper. Final cut was made with #120. The floor was sealed with BonaSeal and finished with 3 coats of Mega Semi gloss, with a #220 machine sanding before the final finish. 

   The carpet is still down on the 2nd floor as restoration is ongoin, but a peak underneath revealed a Flemish knot border in the Master bedroom.
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   BillHartmann | Jun 14, 2002 05:01pm | #2

   Could you please reduce the resolution of your pictures and/or crop them somewhat.

   With the size of the pictures it just takes way too long to download without a broadband connection.

   If you note Jeff's pictures are about 1/10 the size of yours.

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   luvmuskoka | Jun 14, 2002 08:21pm | #3

   Bill,

   Sorry, I deleted them until I can figure out how to compress them. New camera, new technology, old dog.

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   JeffBuck | Jun 15, 2002 06:37am | #6

   hey....mine's just smaller because genetics! No reason to make fun of a fella! Jeff                 Genius has it's limits.....but stupidity knows no bounds

    

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   JeffBuck | Jun 15, 2002 06:42am | #7

   Hey...I was gonna show Cath the pics! dumped my email ones cause these were here......get them back up! Jeff                 Genius has it's limits.....but stupidity knows no bounds

    

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   4Lorn1 | Jun 15, 2002 03:41am | #4

   Outstanding job. Be sure to post the master bedroom pictures. If it comes out half as well as the first one those Flemish knot borders should look fine.

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   xMikeSmith | Jun 15, 2002 04:57am | #5

   download a photo management freeware called irfanview...you can convert most things with it... a good format to use for these boards is  ____.JPG which is a compressed viewer... you can get great resolution under 100 megs...

    here's a link to the freeware

   http://www.irfanview.com/Mike Smith   Rhode Island : Design / Build / Repair / Restore

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   luvmuskoka | Jun 15, 2002 11:10am | #8

   Mike, Cami,

   Thank you, that was an easy download and simple editing process. Am going on a 3 day poker run and will edit photos next week and hopefully repost.. Again thanks to all!!

   Rich