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  2. Historic paint analysis - Wikipedia

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    Historic paint analysis, or architectural paint research, is the scientific analysis of a broad range of architectural finishes, and is primarily used to determine the color and behavior of surface finishes at any given point in time. This helps us to understand the building's structural history and how its appearance has changed over time.

  3. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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    Building a palisade wall for the fort at Jamestown, Virginia The Golden Plow Tavern in York, PA, is a very unusual American building. It is built with corner post construction on the ground floor, half-timbered style of timber framing on the upper floor and has a less common style of wood roof shingles than typical in America.

  4. Wood flooring - Wikipedia

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    This is an especially popular method for solid parquet flooring installations on concrete sub-floors. Additionally, engineered wood flooring may use the glue-down method as well. A layer of mastic is placed onto the sub-floor using a trowel similar to those used in laying ceramic tile.

  5. Clapboard - Wikipedia

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    An older meaning of "clapboard" is small split pieces of oak imported from Germany for use as barrel staves, and the name is a partial translation (from klappen, "to fit") of Middle Dutch klapholt and related to German Klappholz.

  6. Pentimento - Wikipedia

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    In painting, a pentimento (Italian for 'repentance'; from the verb pentirsi, meaning 'to repent'; plural pentimenti) is "the presence or emergence of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over". [1] Sometimes the English form "pentiment" is used, especially in older sources.

  7. Painted ladies - Wikipedia

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    Painted Ladies in the Lower Haight, San Francisco, California. During World War I and World War II many of these houses were painted battleship gray with war-surplus Navy paint. [citation needed] Another sixteen thousand were demolished. Many others had the Victorian décor stripped off or covered with tarpaper, brick, stucco, or aluminum siding.

  8. The Hidden Meaning Behind Purple Fence Posts and the ... - AOL

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    Both Idaho and Montana accept the use of orange paint instead of purple and Maryland uses blue paint. It's a good idea to check with your state for the specifics before marking your own fence posts.

  9. Floor - Wikipedia

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    The subfloor may also provide underfloor heating and if floor radiant heating is not used, will certainly suffer puncture openings to be put through for forced air ducts for both heating and air conditioning, or pipe holes for forced hot water or steam heating transport piping conveying the heat from furnace to the local room's heat exchangers ...