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Default Peeling Paint - door frame


"RickH" wrote in message
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On Aug 16, 3:12 pm, "RichK" wrote:
Guess you're suggesting a chemical stripper. Which should I use, since

it
would be working on both layers, which are of different paint?

The top layer would be easy to remove mechanically, but messy. Well, no
paint is easy to remove :-) Bottom (I suspect oil) is very well

attached to
the wood.

RichK

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If you can get it off with a fingernail then stripping it should be
easy, the new strippers are pretty gentle on your lungs and hands
compared to years ago. Then you could just prime/paint onto the good
layer. No, primer wont penetrate it and somehow re-attach the layer
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The one I used came in a green and white plastic bucket and was a gel
from HD. It was pretty pleasant to work with not like the old lye or
solvent strippers. You dont need to take it down to bare wood, just
that top layer. Scrape the stripped paint, a little wire brushing,
then apply the neutralizer, prime/paint when dry, it doesnt have to
look perfect just down to a sound surface. Somebody probably did just
slap some latex over an oil finish.



You're talking about Citri-Strip or something like that. The problem with
those types of strippers is that they can take a LONG time to dry, meaning
the house could possibly be a disaster area for up to a week while trying to
strip all that stuff. Sometimes it's nice to have a stripper that
evaporates slowly, other times it can be a nuisance. Scrape, sand, prime,
and paint.