Blind Eye Restoration LLC

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Historic Wood Windows Educational Series: First Workshop Join Young Ohio Preservationists for a wood window maintenance and restoration workshop series with Lindsay Jones of Blind Eye Restoration.

Visited a past client for fit warranty on a door we restored. Not a big deal, we encourage all our clients to call us back after they’ve lived with our work for a bit. But I realized recently that I have never taken a good picture of one of our newly installed interlocking thresholds with the door out of the way. They’re so pretty! And they seal out the weather so well, I encourage anyone with an old door to get these put back in whenever they’re missing. It’s a historically appropriate piece that literally just cannot be beat by any kind of modern weatherstrip anywhere. It’s involved, but it’s one of those things that add that little bit of special shine and character and quality to old houses that vinyl cannot match. ✨

Teensiest little exterior door refresh today which just illustrates how amazing shellac (and a talented crew member) can be. This door had no finish left on it after who knows how many years of UV damage through the storm door, and the panels had started cracking as well. After a good wipe down with some 0000 steel wool and DA, the shellac did its job beautifully building back up the shine and protection without any weird blotchy color changes or tricky dry times that would require the door come off the hinges. We even filled the cracks in the panel and you can hardly even see where they were. This whole thing took less than a full day of labor! If you have a wood finished door, you know it’s a pain keeping up with that maintenance. This shellac will age so gracefully it’ll never need a full restoration the way a poly’d door would. Beautiful, efficient, and low maintenance. Gotta love it!