Liquid Sander

Indypop

I have a lot of wood surfaces in my living room at the moment and I am thinking about painting them all.
There are plenty of flat surfaces that could be sanded but I have a dado rail that would be a nightmare to sand. I had thought about taking it down and doing away with it but it is screwed into 100yr old lathe and plaster and I dont fancy the whole wall coming down with it.
Has anyone used liquid sander before - does it work or am I throwing good money away?

Any tips etc would be fab.

drummer_666

if i were you for the dado rail I would get a bit of sand paper, hold it just in your fingers and rub it over the rail.

doing it free hand you should be able to bend it around the rail and get to it, double it over and get into awkward spots. I did that on fancy architrave that has many dips

it only needs a light sand to give it a key for the new paint to adhere to

Indypop

Really - I thought you would need a lot of work to get all the varnish off - hence the reason I was looking at strippers.
Any idea what grade of sandpaper I should be using?

drummer_666

you just need to get it so the surface isn't smooth anymore and so it isnt shiny

i used coarse on my gloss doors coz the medium wasn't doing a lot

cyclonebri1

Indypop wrote: »

Really - I thought you would need a lot of work to get all the varnish off - hence the reason I was looking at strippers.
Any idea what grade of sandpaper I should be using?

Why would you want to get the varnish off????????????

AS SAID YOU SIMPLY NEED TO TAKE THE MUCK AND THE GLOSS OFF WITH GLASs/EMERY CLOTH AND REPAINt, ooops. Undercoat and decent goss will give a very presentable finish.

If you want the dado off it should be easy.
It will be screwed onto or nailed onto the wall, hopefully into the studs that support the wall.

Find the fixings, metal detector handy here, dig 'em out and remove the metal.

Job done;);)

savemoney

If you just want to remove the varnish and then repaint it you could just use Zinseer bulleyes 123 you can paint directly on to varnish it acts as a primer. I did my varnished ceiling with it then applied a paint finish. Took 3 coats though but did the job.

http://www.zinsseruk.com/

aliasojo

zinsser is brilliant stuff. I always used the B I N version. It was expensive and it never went very far but it did a fantastic job.

Indypop

The dado rail is glued to the wall but I dont want to play about it with as even taking nail out of the wall has left large holes where the plaster is coming away. The corners of the walls are all crumbing away and I dont want to do anything to the wall that might bring the walls down so they all need replastering
I only want the varnish off so I can paint it - so if it only needs a good scufffing then I will try that - what I dont want is to find that is that once it is painted it chips off easy or that the varnish bleeds through.

Indypop

savemoney wrote: »

If you just want to remove the varnish and then repaint it you could just use Zinseer bulleyes 123 you can paint directly on to varnish it acts as a primer. I did my varnished ceiling with it then applied a paint finish. Took 3 coats though but did the job.

3 coats of paint or 3 coats of bullseye 123?

keystone

It hasn't been called Bullseye 123 for a few years now. Bullseye and 123 are now different products. You want the latter.

Cheers

cyclonebri1

Indypop wrote: »

The dado rail is glued to the wall but I dont want to play about it with as even taking nail out of the wall has left large holes where the plaster is coming away. The corners of the walls are all crumbing away and I dont want to do anything to the wall that might bring the walls down so they all need replastering
I only want the varnish off so I can paint it - so if it only needs a good scufffing then I will try that - what I dont want is to find that is that once it is painted it chips off easy or that the varnish bleeds through.

No you don't, you want to prepare the surface so that you can overpaint it. :A