Painting a door

... coats. 8. The rails are the door boards that come across and the stiles go up and down. They meet with a diagonal seam at the corners of the door. Make sure you don't paint across that ... replace the spring hinge with an ordinary hinge. If that's not it, chances are your door has been hung at an angle, not plumb, and gravity is pulling it shut. If that's the case, yo...

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... reveal the plate below. Look for a slot in the plate along the seam where it butts against the door. Wedge a slot (also known as flathead) screwdriver in the slot and then give the plate a half ... with an old screwdriver. Take all three hinges off and then carefully remove the door. Q: My kids have caused damage by slamming the doorknob on the wall. How can I prevent this? A: T...

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... easy to grab a saw and start a piece of carpentry but even cutting a straight, square line is a problem until you have mastered it. In this instance, as we had rebuilt the frame, the cut was ... size and screwed to the existing frame. The door was placed in position up against the new frame and the inside of the frame was marked on the door with a pencil. You will probably...

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... Wash down the wall with sugarsoap or a suitable detergent to remove all dust and debris. Inspect the ceiling for cracks, holes and any loose plaster. For small cracks use a suitable ... larger cracks and holes use a stronger more suitable filler (see manufacturer's instructions). When filling try and leave a nice smooth finish, it is better to leave the filled area...

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... break away from the trammels of topography, and to raise landscape painting in water colours to a branch of fine art.” He travelled abroad and studied principally in Italy and Switzerland. ... Scott, a marine painter and styled the English Canaletto, he was called by Horace Walpole “the first painter of the age—one whose works will charm any age,” and was also a friend of Hogart...

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... Bonfand’s book. 2 Alain Bonfand (1957) teaches aesthetic and art theory at the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux- Arts de Paris. He is also associate faculty in the PhD program ‘Languages and ... frame. For example, Ford shoots most of the landscapes from a cave which creates a random black frame that overflows the true frame from the inside. This paradoxical apparatus in framing b...

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... interest that her great relations must have made to set aside the queen's marriage, nothing appears more natural than Richard's succession. His usurpation vanishes, and in a few pages more, ... whose fate he was uncertain? Richard's conduct in a parallel case is a strong presumption that this barbarity was falsely laid to his charge. Edward earl of Warwick, his nephew, an...

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... he was born, but as he was employed to make a candelabra for the eternal lamp which burned before the sacred statue of Athena Polias, we may suppose that he was an Athenian. Some writers say that ... prosperity, was a statesman and a man of high aims; he was a gentleman as well as a strong ruler. The Peloponnesian war, on the contrary, was a civil war, and it divided the Greeks am...

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... whole door out and reinstalling a pre-hung door. If you want to replace only the door using an ordinary slab -door keep in mind that you may have to mortise the door and hinges, and you may also ... the door itself and lay it flat to paint. 10. This prefabricated door makes installation easier, and the doorknob holes are already pre-cut (figure F). RESOURCES: Taunton'...

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... remove the handles, plates and lock mechanism, this makes the painting job much easier. New Wood To prepare new wood for painting, first sand down the door with a fine sand paper following ... with a clean cloth and white spirit to remove all dust and debris. Old Paintwork Check for any flaking paint, remove with a scraper and then feather the surrounding paint with...

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