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269505 Cliff Rohrabacher <rohrabacher@e...> 2019‑12‑09 Re: [SPAM?] Restoring Weathered Wood
back in the early 1980s I rebuilt an ancient old victorian home in the 
MA Bay Colony.  Some one had drilled 3" holes in the ancient clapboards 
to shoot cellulose int he walls and then covered the mess with asbestos 
shingles.

I'm sure fore resistance was part of the sales pitch.

Oh to be sheathed in asbestos.

It was my first project in home construction and rebuilding.   I started 
with a window that looked cocked.  I discovered  that the balloon frame 
had  been infected with rot from the failing roofline three stories of 
fifteen foot ceilings up.  That rot had traveled all  the way to the 
first floor. Then to the sill.

I had my work cut out for me.  Old peg and post wiring ( some of it 
glowed red), failing lathe and horsehair plaster walls and ceilings, 
springy floors decomposing plumbing of multiple metals and  structural 
rot and failures galore.  Good thing I didn't pay much for it.

I didn't know a damn thing about the construction trades.  But I 
figured  money see monkey do.  I'd look at what was done and just 
imitate it.

The sills were sort of mostly good  the clapboards were mostly good. I 
ended up with many cans of Bondo.  Bondo  turned out to be the most 
marvelous stuff  for replacing rotter or destroyed exterior wood 
surfaces. It lasted and is  still lasting  today almost 40 years later.  
Ya gotta paint it.  But it's fabulous stuff.

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