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| Looking for advice, direction, tips, any wisdom. I am repainting a 60 year old house, and I'm down to the interior doors. I thought about buying new doors, but I really want to save these original, heavy, solid wood doors. I've taken them all off, and as I started to sand, paint started to peel off. I realized that the top 2 coats were probably put on without any primer in between, and the bottom 2 coats are probably oil based (and probably lead) paint. I've moved everything outside to a garage, and started to use chemical stripper to get the paint layers off. Still, this is going really slow and messy. It looks like I'll have to scrape as much as I can using the stripper, then sand with a belt sander and orbital sander before I can begin to paint. I really didn't intend to take them down to bare wood, but I almost am having to do this in order to get a smooth surface. Any tips on doing this? Thanks, rita |
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- Posted by christophern (My Page) on Wed, Mar 6, 13 at 17:52
| Sounds like you got it. Now it is just hard work. Be VERY careful with a belt sander |
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| If the orbital sander is a really good one, then you shouldn't even need the belt sander. You can really do some good skid mark damage with a belt sander. |
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| I find that I do better with a heat gun and scrapers rather than a chemical stripper. I use an orbital sander and a Dremel Multi-Max oscillating sander. |
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