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ILoveChoo · Hermes

paint stripper

BargainQueen · Marc Jacobs

Ive stripped paint off a wood dresser before and it was A LOT of work. I dont remember what stripper we used, but we got it at Home Depot. We had to put several coats of the stripper stuff and scrape it off and repeat several times. We werent able to take every spec off but we got most of it off before we gave up and started priming.

For the brick, I saw one of those renovation shows and the stripper stuff didnt work so he rented one of those high pressure hose things and and it came off so much quicker and easier.

itsapinkthing · Coach

If you are going to strip the trim to get the original woodgrain and then varnish, be prepared for more work than you think. My uncle did this. He had to take the trim down room by room, strip each piece several times and then sand. He had nice old thick trim but still aftersanding its hard to be sure all the pieces match and all.

ILoveChoo · Hermes

itsapinkthing wrote:

If you are going to strip the trim to get the original woodgrain and then varnish, be prepared for more work than you think. My uncle did this. He had to take the trim down room by room, strip each piece several times and then sand. He had nice old thick trim but still aftersanding its hard to be sure all the pieces match and all.

thanks. I know its a lot of work, but its really only in one room. Maybe we'll limit it to just the around-the-dorr trim and leave the baseboards as is.... although now that I'm making all these plans the whole house thing is starting to fall through...