I have an old, weathered door that I'm working on, and on which I put a
coat of thompson's water seal at my client's request. Now I want to go
a different direction.

Has anyone successfully taken thompson's off before? I hear it's as
crappy a product as you can imagine.
--
Uno

Uno wrote:
I have an old, weathered door that I'm working on, and on which I put
a coat of thompson's water seal at my client's request. Now I want
to go a different direction.

Has anyone successfully taken thompson's off before? I hear it's as
crappy a product as you can imagine.

IIRC, it's wax disolved in solvents, so methods for removing wax might be
helpful.

On Sep 6, 10:33*am, Uno wrote:
I have an old, weathered door that I'm working on, and on which I put a
coat of thompson's water seal at my client's request. *Now I want to go
a different direction.

Has anyone successfully taken thompson's off before? *I hear it's as
crappy a product as you can imagine.
--
Uno

Take it to one of those furniture stripping services. They ought to be
able to get that miserable Thompsons off. Failing that, inform the
client that his bad choice will mean a door replacement. Its a tough
one, good luck with making anything on the job.

Joe

On 9/6/2010 11:52 AM, Joe wrote:
On Sep 6, 10:33 am, wrote:
I have an old, weathered door that I'm working on, and on which I put a
coat of thompson's water seal at my client's request. Now I want to go
a different direction.

Has anyone successfully taken thompson's off before? I hear it's as
crappy a product as you can imagine.
--
Uno

Take it to one of those furniture stripping services. They ought to be
able to get that miserable Thompsons off. Failing that, inform the
client that his bad choice will mean a door replacement. Its a tough
one, good luck with making anything on the job.

Joe

I find it quite odd that a product that has been around so long and does
such a good job of waterproofing gets such bad reviews in this group.
Did someone get ****ed by thompsons at one time, or what???

--
Steve Barker
remove the "not" from my address to email

On Sep 6, 4:45*pm, Steve Barker wrote:
On 9/6/2010 11:52 AM, Joe wrote:





On Sep 6, 10:33 am, *wrote:
I have an old, weathered door that I'm working on, and on which I put a
coat of thompson's water seal at my client's request. *Now I want to go
a different direction.

Has anyone successfully taken thompson's off before? *I hear it's as
crappy a product as you can imagine.
--
Uno

Take it to one of those furniture stripping services. They ought to be
able to get that miserable Thompsons off. Failing that, inform the
client that his bad choice will mean a door replacement. Its a tough
one, good luck with making anything on the job.

Joe

I find it quite odd that a product that has been around so long and does
such a good job of waterproofing gets such bad reviews in this group.
Did someone get ****ed by thompsons at one time, or what???

--
Steve Barker
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If you look at most factual comparisons like consumer reports you'll
find that it does poorly compared to almost all the other products.
The only thing they do well is advertise.

On Sep 6, 1:45*pm, Steve Barker wrote:
On 9/6/2010 11:52 AM, Joe wrote:



On Sep 6, 10:33 am, *wrote:
I have an old, weathered door that I'm working on, and on which I put a
coat of thompson's water seal at my client's request. *Now I want to go
a different direction.

Has anyone successfully taken thompson's off before? *I hear it's as
crappy a product as you can imagine.
--
Uno

Take it to one of those furniture stripping services. They ought to be
able to get that miserable Thompsons off. Failing that, inform the
client that his bad choice will mean a door replacement. Its a tough
one, good luck with making anything on the job.

Joe

I find it quite odd that a product that has been around so long and does
such a good job of waterproofing gets such bad reviews in this group.
Did someone get ****ed by thompsons at one time, or what???

--
Steve Barker
remove the "not" from my address to email

People may be thinking about the "old" oil-based Thompson's. A few
years ago it became unavailable in California, and the water-based
version deserves every epithet directed at it.

HB

On 9/6/2010 9:39 PM, Higgs Boson wrote:
On Sep 6, 1:45 pm, Steve wrote:
On 9/6/2010 11:52 AM, Joe wrote:



On Sep 6, 10:33 am, wrote:
I have an old, weathered door that I'm working on, and on which I put a
coat of thompson's water seal at my client's request. Now I want to go
a different direction.

Has anyone successfully taken thompson's off before? I hear it's as
crappy a product as you can imagine.
--
Uno

Take it to one of those furniture stripping services. They ought to be
able to get that miserable Thompsons off. Failing that, inform the
client that his bad choice will mean a door replacement. Its a tough
one, good luck with making anything on the job.

Joe

I find it quite odd that a product that has been around so long and does
such a good job of waterproofing gets such bad reviews in this group.
Did someone get ****ed by thompsons at one time, or what???

--
Steve Barker
remove the "not" from my address to email

People may be thinking about the "old" oil-based Thompson's. A few
years ago it became unavailable in California, and the water-based
version deserves every epithet directed at it.

HB

Perhaps that's the reason for my confusion. I haven't used the stuff
for about 15 years.

--
Steve Barker
remove the "not" from my address to email

wrote:

I have used it on wood, brick, and a canvas painters tarp that I made
into a tent. It sealed the wood very well, it stopped the brick from
chipping when water froze on it in winter, and that tarp never leaked
a drop as a tent. I have been perfectly happy with the product. I
should mention that the building I put it on the brick was an entire
large church, and we used many 5 gallon buckets of it.

I also have their semi transparent oil stain on my garage. The garage
was only sides with plain 1/2" plywood. It's 8 years since it was
stained and there is no water damaged plywood. I am seeing where it
could use another coat though since its beginning to look thin in
spots.

The "water seal" IS a wax. I think the stain contains it too, but I'm
not positive.

To the OP.
Why remove it from that door? Get some of their semi-transparent OR
solid stain and paint the door with it. There is no need to remove
it.


Thanks all for comments. I've got a vision for this door now, to bring
it to the end of its rehabilition.

I had to scrub off huge mildewy parts of this door. The suggestion that
I tell this client to abandon this door is, with consideration, rejected
absolutely.

In what temperature zone was this church?
--
Uno

On Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:00:32 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Monday, 6 September 2010 08:33:49 UTC-7, Uno wrote:
I have an old, weathered door that I'm working on, and on which I put a
coat of thompson's water seal at my client's request. Now I want to go
a different direction.

Has anyone successfully taken thompson's off before? I hear it's as
crappy a product as you can imagine.
--
Uno

I've had success with a product from Earth Smart Solutions called a Hydrocarbon cleaner. If you email them, they will tell you exactly what you need and what sort of dilution rate to use.

https://www.earth-smart-solutions.co...aner-degreaser

A 2010 reply? Try to keep up.

On Monday, September 6, 2010 at 8:33:49 AM UTC-7, Uno wrote:
I have an old, weathered door that I'm working on, and on which I put a
coat of thompson's water seal at my client's request. Now I want to go
a different direction.

Has anyone successfully taken thompson's off before? I hear it's as
crappy a product as you can imagine.
--
Uno

It is not a crappy product, but it is what it is...a coat of wax. Use a pressure washer.

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