207 773-2306      26 Higgins St. Portland, ME  04103

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No conferences scheduled these days. Watch replays of past conferences over in the right column.

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our usual features:

• Trades Books
• Traditional Materials
• Tool Box: show us your own favorite tool.
  
  

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Who:  John Leeke, American Preservationeer, and you, with up to 10 others, plus guest experts

What:  Open discussion on caring for and maintaining older and historic buildings. John and other experts field your questions.

Where:  Where ever you are--there we go.

How:  If you have a phone line connection to the internet you can hear audio, see still photos from the video and use the text chat feature. If you have  high-speed cable  or DSL connection to the internet you can see and broadcast video. Your web browser needs the Flash "plug-in." 

Setup:  We are still using the FlashMeeting conference server. Here is how to get up to speed on using it:

• Test your computer, camera & mic here .
• Try out the Conference Demo here or here. On the second screen you can click on "open test application" to check your mic and camera.
• Study the help file here. 

Guests : Join a conference with minimum fuss. Just click "Join the Conference" above at the scheduled time.

Sign-in Users : If you like, pre-register for a FlashMeeting account. During the conference you can upload pictures, draw on the whiteboard, etc. You do not have to pre-register.

There is no cost for joining a conference or registering.  

If your computer has a camera and/or microphone connected you can broadcast video and audio to the conference. If you have no camera or mic, you may still see and hear the conference; and use the text feature. 

If you like, get set up before hand to bring samples of your building parts to your computer's camera for the conference to see, or set up your computer and camera at a location in the building you want to show.  

Phone modem only? Give it a try, even if you have a low-speed telephone line connection. Some are having success with text chat, audio and can see the intermittent video of others. Let me know your results johnleeke@historichomeworks.com 

To get set up with video conferencing for your workshop or training session with John Leeke.

These conferences are graciously co-sponsored by The Centre for New Media, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, which provides the FlashMeeting video conferencing service. 

Recordings & Permissions
The conference and all of its video, images and text will be recorded and will be used by The Open University and Historic HomeWorks in their ongoing research to bring the latest in modern communications technology to the field of historic preservation. Any text and pictures of you, your participants and your building may be analyzed and published without further notice to you. By joining the conference you agree to these terms and transfer all your rights in the text, pictures and video you broadcast, to John Leeke's Historic HomeWorks and The Open University.

Replay Recent Conferences:

Please let me know how you are using these conference replays. This will help us plan the future of the series.
Contact me at johnleeke@historichomeworks.com, 
-- John,
by hammer and hand great works do stand,
by mind and heart we share the art

Catalog & Table of Content to replays of past conferences:

Afternoon  Session:

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Morning Session:

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• Demonstrating scrapers for cleanup of sash glazing rabbets and profiled molding
• Lead-Safe cleanup, task by task
• Removing "rock hard" putty? Sometimes.
• Process of paint stripping?
• Dip stripping window sash? Not a good idea.
• Who are the customers for this window work? Homeowners & institutions.? 
• Moisture buildup in sash. Drying out.
• Stearilizing wood surfaces before painting, borates? Special products.
• Keep water out of the wood? With surface treatments.
• How do you clean glass? Very carefully.
• Are there a lot of historic projects to work on? Yes.
• Opportunities in New Orleans?
• Closings

 
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Jan.22, 2008 View the Replay
John and David talk about internet video and the initial steps of setting up a website to support their practical preservation work on monuments and buildings. (be sure to look through the text chat for Tim's comments.)

For background, watch about 15min. of this discussion, and take a look my video Reports from the Field, and how Paul is using one of them at his website.
also see Tim's PreservationDirectory.com as an example of a highly developed preservation website.

 
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Rhonda Deeg, Dir. of the Building Preservation Program at Harford College, asked me to talk with her Construction Management Students. I tell a few stories about how I discovered the business side of the preservation trades. We hear some business experiences of the Harford students. The true character of the participants shines through: here
What's one of your "rules of business?" , and here
Do you really like doing all the paperwork?.

Rhonda requires her Building Materials students to participate in the regularly scheduled video conferences. 

(if you'd like to have a video conference with your students, just let me know 

    207 773-2306      26 Higgins St. Portland, ME  04103