doors dipped stripped in Glasgow

katdon_2

Hi

does anyone know of a place that does door dipping/stripping in Glasgow area, the prices quoted are silly money, £65, £70 and £80 per door.:mad: I could buy new doors for that. I am looking for a realistic figure, I've got 5 doors in total to do. Any help would be very much appreciated.

thanks

DirectDebacle

Save yourself some money and DIY them. You need avariable speed hot air gun so you don't scorch the wood, blunt stripping knives (flat and a combination are usually enough) and No2 wire wool (coarse), Nitromors or similar. Remove doors, support flat and remove bulk of paint with hot air. Stubborn residue and mouldings are treated with wire wool dipped in the stripper. Wash off with meths to neutralizr stripper. Tedious but you should be able to do a door a day without any problem. More with practice.

Stripping doors in tanks of heated caustic soda is not good for them at all. It swells the wood, weakens joints and they weep white residue for days afterwards which has to be cleaned up with white vinegar.
If your quotes are for chemical stripping then a better method but still pricey compared to DIY.

ed110220

DirectDebacle wrote: »

Save yourself some money and DIY them. You need avariable speed hot air gun so you don't scorch the wood, blunt stripping knives (flat and a combination are usually enough) and No2 wire wool (coarse), Nitromors or similar. Remove doors, support flat and remove bulk of paint with hot air. Stubborn residue and mouldings are treated with wire wool dipped in the stripper. Wash off with meths to neutralizr stripper. Tedious but you should be able to do a door a day without any problem. More with practice.

Stripping doors in tanks of heated caustic soda is not good for them at all. It swells the wood, weakens joints and they weep white residue for days afterwards which has to be cleaned up with white vinegar.
If your quotes are for chemical stripping then a better method but still pricey compared to DIY.

I had a wardrobe door (so slightly smaller than a normal door) stripped for £25 in Bristol, so your quotes are very high I think.

Having said that I wasn't happy with the result. The grain was all raised and rough and it needed so much sanding to get it smooth again it was hardly a saving in time over stripping it by hand with a hot air gun.

Definitely don't do it if you want to leave the wood exposed (varnished, polished etc) as it ruins the colour and makes it look like driftwood.

cattie

I'm in a London suburb & in my last house I had the doors stripped & they cost about £35 each & that included removing & then replacing the doors when they were returned. The prices you've been quoted seem horrendous by comparison.

Alan_T_2

katdon wrote: »

Hi

does anyone know of a place that does door dipping/stripping in Glasgow area, the prices quoted are silly money, £65, £70 and £80 per door.:mad: I could buy new doors for that. I am looking for a realistic figure, I've got 5 doors in total to do. Any help would be very much appreciated.

thanks

I approached the Paint Stripper in Glasgow about getting doors stripped last year (was going to pick up bargain 2nd hand ones and get them stripped back). Was quoted £50 a door then. He's the one under the railway arches on the way out of Central Station, just round the corner from the O2 Academy if IIRC. Can't vouch for prices or quality of work as ended up not getting doors then, but was reccommended by a Salvage Yard in Paisley as the place to go.

katdon_2

thanks everyone for your feedback :T. I think I know the place you're talking about is it called new doors? I am seriously contemplating trying it myself, as you say a door a day. I have found out that it can take 3 - 5 days and as I have two cats that like to go mental at night, chasing each other, I dont think I'd get much of a sleep with those two jumping on my head. I appreciate your time and advise, so thanks again.

JohnB47

As others have said, dip stripping is very bad for doors. Our house has doors that must have been dip stripped - they're all warped to bug**ry. Not one closes 'flatly' in the frame.

googler

Last time I got any stripped, I decided 'never again'. There was still paint left in some of the joins, where the paint had gone left huge spaces where the wood had moved over the years, which had gradually been disguised with paint, etc.

With all the work needed to prep them for paint (including letting the stripper dry out for a couple of days), I was wishing I'd just rubbed them down and painted over them.

ed110220

googler wrote: »

Last time I got any stripped, I decided 'never again'. There was still paint left in some of the joins, where the paint had gone left huge spaces where the wood had moved over the years, which had gradually been disguised with paint, etc.

With all the work needed to prep them for paint (including letting the stripper dry out for a couple of days), I was wishing I'd just rubbed them down and painted over them.

I agree. I had one done as a test thinking it would be easier than doing it myself by hot air gun. The result is horrible, all rough and covered in small cracks that need filling.

Since then I've done some by hand since and am much happier with the result.