New hobby. (woodworking related on many levels: building a bar.)

m/33ysuf9That is where the bar/restaurant will be.

p://tinyurl.com/38uhyty

Last link should work better this way:

there's a lot of hidden detail under the paint.

Do you get free "drinking rights" for life?

"Robatoy" wrote

Or are you taking it off?

Smartypans!

That's NICE yellow. You'll see the whole statement when the signs and all that are in place. Lots of oranges and greens to come.

Don't you OOPS me, mister! . . . Yeah, well, so I typed it in from memory....big mistake...LOL

I saw your correction, as soon as I hit send. :-)

Smartypans!

That's NICE yellow. You'll see the whole statement when the signs and all that are in place. Lots of oranges and greens to come.

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Orange? And you said an "Irish" pub?

A hotbed of inactivity, wot?

-- Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. -- Plutarch

-- Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. -- Plutarch

I'm wondering how any sign he makes for that can compete with the new paint (blowme) job.

-- Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. -- Plutarch

It kills me to look at it. Guaranteed there's multi-colored brick under the paint, and check out the pilasters running up the face of the building and on either side of each window. They've got this cool serpentine thing going on. The brickwork on that building is flipping art, and somebody _wallpapered_ over it! I'd use Peel Away Smart Strip and take it down to the original and then not have to worry about painting it again.

You wouldn't do well up here anyway. ;-}

Perhaps, but some of the old ca1870 buildings around here are so unstable that the mortar and bricks themselves are eroding. Paint may be the only thing holding that building _up_!

-- Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. -- Plutarch

Are you close to salt water and earth quakes?

Surrounded by leftists under 400' of -50F snow? You're correct!

-- Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. -- Plutarch

Within 50 miles of the ocean, with the coastal range in between. And we're in a quake area, but none has hit in eons.

The work I was doing on one such building was -inside-, though. They had me paint the disintegrating bricks and mortar with a thick, clearish emulsion. It reminded me of the lovely and popular polyurinestain products.

-- Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. -- Plutarch

Funny how reality somehow stops at your border, huh? I have seen those weather maps on TV. 70=B0 in Detroit, 20=B0 in Windsor, with only a river separating them. Somewhere, I still have a picture of a Tennessee couple that crossed the border here in Sarnia, with skis on the roof of their station wagon .......in JULY!

Rome, Italy, 41, 54 N Northern California 41=B0 46'N Sarnia Latitude: 42=B0 58', North.

We can actually grow vegetables here!

BTDT... We formed a consortium and renovated 6 store-fronts downtown Toronto. Same idea. Gutted most of them. Lead water lines, asbestos insulation FUN! Abatemen fees were staggering. (We did see that coming though, so no surprises) This place, however, won't even take a tapcon drill bit easily in the perfectly pointed mortar. No worries there. The wood around the windows is another story, but after doing a LOT of those in Rochester NY, I feel no intimidation by that problem. The brick inside needs to be cleaned and re-pointed in some areas. I love this kinda s*it...