Best way to strip gloss?

coolsteel

In a word Amy no, i did a rooms skirtings, took me ages with a blow lamp, also its very easy to scorch the wood with the blow lamp. Im no expert maybe there is another quicker method, i heard about using a dangerous chemical which is good but you have to have all the protective gear to use it.
hope you get sorted
Coolsteel:cool:

amyandoli

All done!
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*Friday night- stripped 2 windowsills (found mdf sills underneath eek! so will repaint- boo!)*Saturday afternoon/evening- stripped the banister rail and the wood that holds it to wall (iykwim) *Sunday- with help of dh stripped 4 door surrounds (replacing actual doors later) *Monday- stripped one side of staircase (and tidied up husbands door frames!) *Tuesday- stripped other side of staircase... now having late lunch and catching up with world since Friday night...

Used 6l of nitrol, a few different b&q shaped tools for paint/paper stripping, 3 lots wire wool. It took 3 coats of nitrol per area, going through some very odd colours, and a fair bit of scraping. If I hadnt been so 'lazy' (or dh had helped a bit more!), I think I could of got it all done easily by Sunday, but I kept reading between coats... Maybe it was because it wasn't ornate wood, simple 1950s skirting/frames and no banister spindles etc.

Now going to finish lunch, white spirit what i did today, sand everything down and give it a go over with some wax. Next week I'll start the bathroom...

green1970

Is there a cheat's way of doing this? My bannister has a good few layers of paint and the top one is one of those horrible mahogany stain things that came out in the 80s/90s. It needs to be white again but the stripping sounds a nightmare - is there any way of sealing it and painting over again and could anybody recommend any good products.

Thanks.

ormus

there really is no cheats way when you have so many layers.
bite the bullet and strip it off wif a heat gun.

harrysmum03_2

i personally would just replace the skirting and dado if there as any it saves time and a whole lot of elbow grease, would probably do same 4 architrave too, for the inside section of the door frame i'd remove the door stop sections ( the bit the door bangs against if its slammed) and you'll find it's a whole lot easier to clear paint from a bigger flat surface. i thought this section was all one bit till my chippie hubby ripped it all of in our old house lol! architrave etc is fairly cheap and you'll probably find you'll actually spend the same amount on nitro mors anyway and thats before all the hard work of scrubbin the damn stuff off 3 or 4 times over. as for the section on the stairs i just used nitromors as you can't replace it unless your gonna replace the whole staircase.
for the spindles i think u can buy them in a kit form which should be pretty straight forward as you should still have the foundation in place under the sheets of mdf
just my thought on the matter ;.)

JoKay_2

Glad I used the search facility before posting...!

I have a 9 year old house with the original gloss on the woodwork. To be honest, I don't think they did a fantastic job to start with, probably one coat of gloss straight on top of the wood, but its now time to redo it.

I am incredibly inexperienced in the area of DIY, and had thought that I could sand it lightly then gloss over the top, but I really need some more advice on this one please.

Thanks!

ormus

if its the one original gloss coat, then a light sanding and glossing will be ok.