Posts tagged ‘concrete’

The amount of work that is needed in the backyard to be able to start our herb and vegetable garden is just one more example of the never-ending chain of related to-dos around the old rowhouse. To wit: For two years, Rachel has been eagerly waiting for the day when she can start planting the [...]

I’ve got the best brother-in-law, hands down. Jeremy’s been living with us since New Year’s or so — as well as the two weeks before Christmas while working for the DC office of his architecture firm — away from his hometown of Atlanta and their office there. He works for one of the bigger US [...]

I’m so excited (and relieved) about a piece of news I got yesterday. DC runs a facility near us called the Ft. Totten Waste Transfer Center, which is like a dump, only they don’t keep anything there — they just sort it and send it elsewhere. It’s a fantastic, magical place where you can take [...]

These column caps have been especially stubborn to get the paint fully removed. Here’s a before and after of what I think was the 3rd coat of stripper from yesterday and this morning. Hopefully just one more round on here, but I think there may be some spots that get a 5th round, like the [...]

After a brutal few weeks at work and a well-deserved week of vacation with Rachel’s family at the beach in Florida, we’re back at it on the house, continuing the project that I started more than a month ago: stripping the front concrete porch steps and pedestal caps. Here’s the best view I’ve got of [...]

Half-stripped steps, originally uploaded by whiteknuckled. The steps are coming right along. I discovered that the Behr Concrete Stripper (no. 992 if you’re curious) works infinitely better than standard paint strippers of almost any stripe, which is a big relief, because I don’t think my hands could’ve taken much more tedious hard scraping with the crap [...]