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Practical Restoration Reports are a detailed technical series on preservation topics packed with practical methods you can use now. The reports contain complete descriptions of useful techniques with drawings and photos that reflect the latest developments in the field of architectural preservation. Information in each report is updated as new developments in preservation are actually used on projects around the country. These reports are based on real projects and the author's thirty years experience as a preservation tradesman and contractor. He brings that experience to work for the readers of these reports. He developed these reports in response to the needs of professionals, contractors, and homeowners for detailed and accurate information about their old and historic buildings.

Save America's Windows
Save America's Windows, how to repair and maintain older and historic wooden windows. An alternative to vinyl replacement windows. Covers traditional methods and the latest in modern high-tech materials and techniques for wood window repairs and maintenance. Learn how to avoid falling under the spell of the window replacement salesman. Fifteen specific step-by-step treatments to repair weathered sills and deteriorating sash. Window project profiles, how to organize and pay for the work. Reprints of five window chapters from 19th and early 20th century trades manuals. 140 pages, 230 illustrations.

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Practical Restoration Reports Compendium
Save $39.00. Order this compilation of all seven reports in one handy spiral-bound volume. Includes: Save Your Wood Windows, Wood-Epoxy Repair, Wooden Columns, Exterior Woodwork Details, Wood Gutters, Mouldings and Managing Maintenance. 206 pages, 259 illustrations.

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Wood-Epoxy Repairs
Stabilize and save deteriorated exterior woodwork with long-lasting wood-epoxy repairs. Restore and strengthen deteriorated wood by applying liquid epoxy resins which solidify within the wood and fill voids. Wood-epoxy repairs complement traditional repair methods and modern part replacement. They save time and money when you know how and where to use them. This report covers how wood decays, epoxy materials and methods, tool kits, safety, and alternate materials and methods. 33 illustrations, 3 methods, 1 step-by-step procedure, 31 pages.

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Exterior Woodwork Details, an alternative to vinyl siding
Extend the life of exterior woodwork and reduce maintenance with good design, proper materials selection and effective installation methods.

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Managing Maintenance for Older and Historic Buildings
Use the four steps of maintenance programming; Assess, Plan, Maintain, Evaluate, to reduce deterioration and save money. Learn to set priorities, schedule work and control the costs of maintaining your building while saving its historical significance and architectural character. • 10 forms to copy and fill in. • 20 Illustrations. • 45 Pages.

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Wooden Columns
How to stabilize, repair and maintain exterior wooden columns. Buy the right columns for your project with sources of supply and installation methods to make restored or new columns last longer. • 34 Illustrations. • 17 Pages.

Print: $13.06

Wood Gutters
THis detailed guide for repair and maintenance of wooden gutters covers assessment of conditions, replacement, flashing and preservative finishes. • 16 Illustrations. • 16 Pages.

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Mouldings
What can you do if your early building is missing short lengths of a few wood mouldings? You can spend hundreds of dollars in setup costs at the millworks each time you need a few mouldings, or you can save money by learning how to make short runs of wood mouldings yourself. Includes names and shapes of mouldings, copying the profile of existing mouldings and three methods to reproduce them. • 17 Illustrations. • 12 Pages.

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