PERIOD HOMES
 
Why live with black depressing beams
   
 

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Paint, varnish and stain removed from oak beams
   
Revealing :-
  • Carpenters Marks.
  • Adzing Pitch Marks.
  • Pit saw marking.
  • Candle taper burns.
  • Dates and Initials.
  • Smoke contamination.
  • Beam Paintings.

- Cut into timbers.
- Dimple shaped cuts of the adze.
- Hand saw cuts.
- Very attractive tear shaped burns.
- Construction or refurbishment dates.
- Evidence of pre-chimney buildings.
- Early decoration.

 
   
Then waxed to produce character and charm
 
   

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