In which I wine about my renovation

[LoveTrains]

Drink some wine!!!!

[AAM2012]

Mar 28, 2015 21:24:35 GMT -5 LoveTrains said:

Drink some wine!!!!

MMMM wine...

[imojoebunny]

You might look around for a place you can take the wood to be stripped. We have a house that was built in 1905. Ours is a rental, so we don't seek perfection, but a lot of the homes around there are mint. I have been told by these mint people that you can take your wood work to a furniture stripper and they can dip the pieces for not that much money. It will save your arms, your skin, and your sinuses.

[livinitup]

It'll be worth it after its done.

Probably.

[hbomdiggity]

We did a ton of stripping and used a heat gun. I didn't think the stripper stuff worked at all.

But we also just took 2 doors to a shop at $200 and consider it money well spent.

[Deleted]

I was also going to suggest the dipping. My parents did that with a pair of old chairs ~10 years ago.
I think the heat gun is a good idea also. If nothing else, it will help the first or 2nd later so you can get to the really old stuff underneath with elbow grease.

[lys]

We did this with our first house. It took me 2 years to complete all the woodwork in the whole house. I did the upstairs one year and the downstairs the 2nd year. I had a toddler and a 1st grader at the time so that limited the amount of time I could devote to the project.
Definitely well worth it - so enjoyed the outcome and it helped to sell the house as well.

[heliocentric]

Do you have lead paint? That's hard to remove and can be dangerous. We used Peel Away and it wasn't terrible and didn't require as much scraping. We also used a heat gun on some spots.

We did our stairway and a several doors then we quit. Maybe one day we'll be motivated to try again.

Good luck. I'm sure it will be beautiful.