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DIY Forum >> Painting, Decorating & Tiling Questions >> stripping doors https://www.askthetrades.co.uk/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1328204697 Message started by Natedog on Feb 2nd, 2012, 5:44pm |
Title: stripping doors Post by Natedog on Feb 2nd, 2012, 5:44pm most of the original doors in our house had been replaced with nasty cheap flat ones. i've got a chippy coming in a few weeks to replace them with 4 panel wooden ones. the 3 original doors we'd like to retain, but they are painted and wallpapered (just the panels on the back) and ideally they'd be stripped and then waxed to match. what's the most effective way of removing the paint from the fiddly mouldings round the edge of the panels without damaging the wood underneath? |
Title: Re: stripping doors Post by Joiner on Feb 3rd, 2012, 10:23am Something like this... http://www.peelaway.co.uk/ There are other similar products out there. But I'm a tight b'stard so I would use caustic soda, observing all the usual precautions for personal safety and following to the letter the instructions on the packaging. It's available from B&Q and other large DIY outlets, usually in the decorating aisles. |
Title: Re: stripping doors Post by londonman on Feb 3rd, 2012, 5:57pm Caustic soda...horrible stuff...then you have to faff about neutralising it. |
Title: Re: stripping doors Post by Joiner on Feb 4th, 2012, 4:58pm Bucket of water! ;) Too bloody scientific, Rog. ;D |
Title: Re: stripping doors Post by Owen23 on Dec 17th, 2012, 6:29am For stripping a door firstly there is need of heat gun and after that liquid stripper is used. When paint on the door is stripped then use a palm sander. There is also need of paper to remove the flecks of remaining paint. It would fill up all the wholes in the metal or wood of the door. |
Title: Re: stripping doors Post by woodsmith on Mar 15th, 2013, 4:12pm That's saved a load of work and looks great. Have these been officially approved by "she who was away"? ;D |
Title: Re: stripping doors Post by Natedog on Mar 28th, 2013, 4:19pm woodsmith wrote on Mar 15th, 2013, 4:12pm:
yup, the boss likes them :) 1 door left to do and it'll be time to start the next room. woo! |
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