How to strip wood finishes.
Finishing stripped pine doors.
A good looking finish always starts with a thorough sanding job especially with a soft wood like pine.
If you re stripping them anyway why not just have a test strip on one of the doors you think are boarded up.
Don t bother stripping furniture you plan to paint.
For a really fine finish for example on mahogany doors you can wet the wood with water to raise the grain3 let it dry and re sand.
So stripping a door just to re paint is actually quite a viable option.
Wash it with tsp substitute mixed with water.
Maybe you ll be able to see more.
A high performance oil based varnish to highlight the wood s rich color and grain.
This could be the board layer.
Here we re going to take a closer look at pine and specifically how to stain pine doors.
If you re going to paint or repaint a piece of furniture you probably don t need to strip it.
Here are some guidelines.
At old timbers we strip doors for only 20 per door and basic pine doors tend to start at about 50.
You shouldn t throw away a piece of furniture or a nice piece of wood just because it has layers of old paint or old worn out varnish on it.
Pine doors may be either solid or engineered.
By mid after noon the door was ready for its new finish.
Hope that makes sense.
Pine on the other hand is a soft wood that comes with a naturally swirling grain that can be made to look gorgeous with the application of the right finish.
Orbital sanders leave swirl marks that make the stained surface look muddy.
Dee who has worked on many this old house television projects attacked the splotchy surface with sandpaper and scrapers until the old pine door was as fresh and as fragrant as the day it was built.
Sand with a block.
There could be a beautiful piece.
After power sanding always sand by hand using a block before you go on to the next grit.
Tone orangey pine boards down with a walnut stain with a.
To get the best finish possible make sure you fill any dents or cracks in your door with a good quality wood filler and sand it smooth and then give the door a coat of.
For engineered or veneered pine doors first look in the manufacturers fitting instructions for what types of product you can and can t use and then contact.
Instead think about refinishing it.
Or see that the door is thicker than the other doors.
Owners of pine doors have several options when it comes to treatment.
Then using medium or fine grit sandpaper smooth out any bumps or flaking paint and scuff sand other areas so the new paint will stick better.
But the last couple not but dipped and stripped have just been left and are fine.
For advice on stripping sanding and surface preparation please refer to my other piece the definitive guide to wood stripping and sanding.
Engineered means that the wood surface is actually a thin veneer.
If you look at the edge of the door can you see a groove in the paint.
