Much is coming of easily with the heat gun but while stripping the door today when i reached the center panels craftsman door it stopped working.
Stripping paint from wood trim.
Scrape off the paint with a plastic scraper and use an abrasive pad and mineral spirits to remove any lingering residue.
Unless the trim is particularly unique you may be better off removing it and replacing it with new matching trim.
Remove paint from trim and molding use this handy guide and an even handier tool to restore the clean lines of wood trim that has been gunked up by layers of paint jobs from decades past.
Before stripping it it s very important to test for the presence of lead.
Ask this old house painter mauro henrique travels to sacramento to show a homeowner the safe way to strip paint.
A inch coat removes up to seven layers of paint.
Paint applied before 1978 may contain lead.
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30 minutes to 24 hours removal.
I am stripping paint from a 1906 house that has a nice dark oak stained finish under the paint.