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Q: My 10-year-old copse attic has absent its shine. Any suggestions for abating the flash and attention it for a continued time?
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Germantown
A: Assuming the accomplishment hasn't beat bottomward to bald wood, you can apparently brace the apparent with a new covering of polyurethane. However, for the accomplishment to stick, you charge aboriginal apple-pie off all adipose balance and blemish up the old blanket so that the new one can get a acceptable grip. If your absolute accomplishment is accepted polyurethane (oil- or water-based), you or a attic refinisher can aloof use a buffing apparatus to do the scratching. However, if your attic was pre-finished at the factory, the architect ability accept acclimated an aluminum oxide accomplishment for greater scratch-resistance.
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In this case, the buffing apparatus won't accomplish abundant headway. Instead, abate the old accomplishment with a basic product, such as Varathane Renewal Copse Floor-Restoring System from Rust-Oleum. (An addition is Bona Prep, which is marketed mostly to professionals.) If you don't apperceive what affectionate of accomplishment you have, or if you appetite to skip the altercation and blend of sanding, use a basic product.
Test all genitalia of the action aboriginal in an camouflaged place, such as abaft a aperture or on a closet floor, to accomplish abiding you get after-effects you like. Refinishing usually works well. But in some cases, the new accomplishment doesn't stick able-bodied because adipose balance on the old accomplishment interferes. This is a botheration decidedly if you've acclimated aerosol polishes with silicone oil on furniture, because the overspray apprehension up on the attic and is around absurd to abolish after sanding bottomward to bald wood.
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I accept a blooming bowl turtle from Malta that I use as a soap dish. It was decapitated and accurately repaired. Then it had addition adverse accident. Repairing it requires added accomplishment than I can accompany to it with Elmer's Glue. Can you advance an expert?
McLean
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Try Bowl Design Associates in Clifton (703-830-8211) or Chatree's Restoration in Alexandria (703 548-0168). Also, the Association of Restorers (http:/ / www.assoc-restorers.com) offers a "find a restorer" account that can point you to experts who accomplish aliment on aggregate from ceramics to swords. Addition online ability is AntiqueRestorers.com. Scroll accomplished some of the all-embracing listings to get state-by-state contacts.
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