Beam cleaning
10 years ago
Hi,
Does anybody have any advise on how to go about breathing some life back into beams & stairs? House dates back to 1823 and was refurbed at the end of the '80s. They're a very oppressive dark brown stain/paint which I want to take back to bare wood. I've been looking at micro-blasting. Possible to hire equipment to do this or too specialist?
Thanks
Does anybody have any advise on how to go about breathing some life back into beams & stairs? House dates back to 1823 and was refurbed at the end of the '80s. They're a very oppressive dark brown stain/paint which I want to take back to bare wood. I've been looking at micro-blasting. Possible to hire equipment to do this or too specialist?
Thanks
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