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I’ve been short on the posts lately, but we’ve been deep in the remodel. Here’s what we have going on this week.
Stripping hell continues. I seriously think I am paying penance for property damage I must have inflicted in a previous life.
The back of the house has been completely ripped out & is ready for [...]
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I swore I’d never do mass stripping after our kitchen remodel in San Francisco. Never say never! I am the stripping queen these days. I’ve been working on the solid mahogany trim that is around the windows, door frames and closets. I used CitriStrip and Soy Gel to remove the white paint. But, there is [...]
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Stripping hell continues. Let’s review what we are stripping in our little house.
1. All of the Doug Fir beams – like 30 feet long and maybe 20 of them.
2. All of the mahogany trim and wood around the house. Yes, idiots covered it all in paint.
3. Concrete Block inside and outside the house. Yes, we [...]
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Back in February, we started doing some testing of the stripping process. Since every last drop of the wood in our house is painted, we have a lot of work to do. We tested sanders, very toxic strippers, non-toxic strippers, etc. I wrote about our testing here.
I got a great comment and tip from Troy [...]
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We are officially INSANE! We did a very tiny test a few weeks ago on our interior concrete block. It is all painted (in poop color, no less) and Tim is desperate to see it in it’s natural, unpainted state. Do you know how hard it is to scrape paint from all the nooks and [...]
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I got a great tip today for stripping our beams. It might give us a less painful option for removing all of the heinous white paint! Troy at Kingswood Redo sent me a link to a really website that documents the history and remodel of an Eichler in San Mateo, CA. It’s done as a [...]
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