Alternatives to Wire Mold? Advice needed and thanks.
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Need advice: mold on finished gourds
Comments (5)The urethane will only hold up to the sun for so long. I may be a good idea if you washed them in some diluted bleach and water to get all the mold off again and respray them. I think I would touch them up every year with a respray of the polyurethane. The UV rays will break down just about anything. Just clean them again when you put them away and RESPRAY yearly. You could also just leave them without any spray at all on them. Gourds are pretty tough even without polyurethane. Once mold starts to grow under urethane, there is no stopping it. It just keeps on going until you have to scrap the poly off and re-bleach and respray the gourd. That is my opinion anyway. Works for me anyway...See MoreExterior Surface mildew/mold need expert advice
Comments (3)Paintguy, Thanks for the input, I'm not home at the moment but am going to check to make sure that Oil was used on my place and then will check with a few neighbors to see exactly what was used on their house. Hoping that they used Acrylic so that there's an explanation. If I use Jomax/Bleach to clean everything up, can Acrylic be applied right over the Oil based stuff? Would it hurt to add a mold inhibitor to the Acrylic for the belt/suspenders approach? What exterior opaque acrylic and mold inhibitor brand would you recommend? Lastly, (this is more or less common sense 101) but... when I cover the place in jomax/bleach and then powerwash it, I really need to be on a ladder angling the sprayer down so that I don't drive water under the boards-no? I'd love to be lazy and try to powerwash from the ground but could be asking for trouble. Thanks for your help....See MoreCrown Molding Advice needed urgently
Comments (14)Another vote for going to the ceiling. I have four inches of "library" molding, and four inches of crown molding on top of my cabinets. I certainly didn't want that much molding, but needed to hide the vent hood exhaust tube that went above the cabinets to the outside, and this seemed to be the easiest and least obtrusive way to do it. Now that it's done and I've lived with it for awhile, I really like the finished look, as well as the architectural interest it provides Here is a link that might be useful: kitchen pic's...See MoreNon-wired alternatives to a chandelier?
Comments (27)We have a arc floor lamp that we thought for sure would go in that space, but it actually exasperated the problem -- because it was coming up from the floor, it pulled the eye down and the ceiling height was lost. The ceilings are just shy of 9 feet (8 feet 10 inches) so we do have room for a smaller hanging thing - coming down 2.5 feet or more. Because since you have a chair directly under where it would go, even a 6 foot 6 inch adult would never be able to fully stand up straight underneath. Sort of like the same concept with a dining table chandelier. And it's interesting you say we don't have the height -- because i think you've hit on the problem - that the pic as is makes it look like we don't have tall ceilings. There is something about the lines in our room that makes the ceilings look shorter than they are. Our friends all live in similar row houses near us with pretty identical ceiling height -- but theirs FEEL taller. I've been trying to put my finger on it and i think they all have floor to ceiling features that emphasize the full height of the room. Say, their house isn't open floor plan so there are dividing walls all over that make the house taller than wider. Everything in our house is drawing the eye down and i'd like to counter that effect....See MoreRon Natalie
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