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Remove Old Clear Coat

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My Epoxy Resin FAILED!

What happens here

Begin by removing any existing loose or peeling clear coat from the wooden countertops. Use a hand scraper, such as a paint scraper or a utility knife, to carefully scrape away the old finish. The video demonstrates this process by dry scraping, highlighting that wet sanding or scraping could lead to moisture absorption in the wood, complicating subsequent epoxy application. Focus on areas where the previous coating has separated or failed.

Goal: Strip the old, compromised epoxy or clear coat from the wooden countertops.

Tools and materials

  • Hand Scraper — Manually scraping off the old clear coat
  • Rubber Gloves — Protecting hands during the scraping process
  • Utility Knife — Precisely removing smaller, more stubborn bits of the old finish
  • Old Clear Coat/Epoxy — The material being removed from the countertop

What they say

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We can't wet sand it. No, cuz we want to finish it and get it done so we can have the kitchen back as a kitchen. So, we're dry sanding because if we wet sand it, what'll happen is the moisture go into the wood. Hot wood will take days, won't it? Yeah. It'll dry. It'll take days for it to dry and we don't want that. So, we're doing it the oldfashioned way. Elbow grease. Someone likes Now check this out. Frankie, will we show them what we got cooking? That's what we're dealing with separation. And we wouldn't have had to really I mean it probably would have stayed if this would have happened. You know this. So we got Do you So we had some water penetration here. Yeah. and that we lost the front edge. I just don't know why we would continue to lose way over here, but we have no water penetration over here. I don't think it just I don't It just didn't bond. Didn't bond right. I mean, so we're going to sand it all. We're going to take it all down. The only problem is we got to go around this corner here cuz we can't stop it right there. That makes no sense. Right. So everything would match. I think if we don't do it, this is going to continue to pull up somewhere. Yeah, it's going to eventually have to keep coming up. Once it gets air underneath there, you're going to see a big You're going to see that. It's just going to keep coming up. How long ago did we do this, Frankie?

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