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silverwaterlady
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# Posted: 25 Apr 2017 15:43
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Antiques Roadshow though I love watching has educated the masses on antiques and collectables so much that it's difficult to "find a deal" these days.

Cooks Dock
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# Posted: 24 May 2017 21:08
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You coming north this summer?

Bexeler
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# Posted: 24 May 2017 21:35
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We have had great luck at our local restore centers finding deals for our cabin. This is the list of things we have bought at the restore.
3/4" OSB for the sub floor $ 10 a sheet
Entry door $15
Insulation $5 a roll
20" electric range $65
Base cabinets for kitchen FREE
Counter top $7

We are lucky there is a center that is on the way home from work for both my wife and me so we get to stop there once or twice a week to see the new stuff the have in.

KinAlberta
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# Posted: 26 May 2017 10:23 - Edited by: KinAlberta
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My Restore screwup was an impulse buy of $300 of prefinished aluminum oxide black oak stair nosing thinking that I could strip it and refinish it to a natural finish. Dumb, dumb, dumb, right. Tried three types of ("amazing" according to the labels) paint stripper. It just sat there. Yeah, I'm an idiot and I did know that polyurethane is a plastic but I tried anyway. Plane and/or sand? No bloody way! I finally got smart, donated it back and bought unfinished nosing.

However, I did find the matching oak boards for the treads at a Restore for about a 1/3 of the new price. Did the basement stairs to match the style going up to the second floor. (A stair company had come in to give me a quote we'll over a thousand dollars and said that they 'don't do and won't do' the fancy nose job that our original contractor had done. He'd wrapped the nosing over the stringer.)

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