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3 AMAZING Chemical Strippers! Removing Paint from WOOD.

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Begin by understanding the project's scope: restoring a historical door, potentially over 100 years old, that has multiple layers of paint. An initial attempt with media blasting proved too aggressive, removing the wood's profile. The door is believed to have two paint layers (a recent latex, an older oil-based paint) over multiple layers of black and rancid linseed oil. Chemical stripping is chosen as the preferred method to preserve the wood's intricate details.

Goal: Understand the project requirements and the nature of the paint layers to be removed.

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this Chrissy Idaho painter and I'm here once again with journeyman John and we've got a really cool project where we're gone here this is a historical door I don't know maybe a hundred-year-old house or more I'm pretty sure it's over 100 years old in downtown Boise and we're trying to restore it to its old glory days and part of the process we took an eco clip a greatcoat eco quick blaster and we were media blasting it on all this intricate detail to try to take off some of the pain and it was kind of taking away too much of the profile of the wood and so John went down and got all these strippers and not the chemical strippers clarifying right so and we're going we're testing out a bunch of chemical strippers and we're gonna let you know what we think about which ones work which ones don't work which ones are fast which ones are slow which ones will work on oil which ones will work on latex so this door I think John has been messing around with some of the strippers just testing the test spots what have you found on youth what you think is on this door so far so what we're thinking we've got is we've got two layers of paint one is relatively new and probably the last five or 10 years everyone is a little bit older than that probably an oil-based paint and then under that what it looks like we see is fun multiple layers of like linseed oil or some sort of oil on the door that can went black and rancid and then they just paint it over the top of that so as we're putting the the chemical stripper on this we're starting to see it melts through that paint pretty quick but then when it gets to that oil it's a bit of a process getting that on yeah I was when I was using that a coke that we were using and I was blasting it with glass beads in a really low pressure and you know it was this dark green paint you're seeing right here was just coming right off as soon as the water was any mint so with some really cheap really cheap latex paint but then underneath it seemed like there was an oil-based paints and then it would like to cut through that in certain areas and then it would go into the wood it just wasn't working out properly so definitely this chemical strippers is going to wait going to be the weight of gonna be the way to go so here we go we're gonna

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