I'm decorating our hall and stripping the staircase after decorating a lot of the other rooms in the house (1930s house). All the rooms had thick gloss paint over the woodwork and I've stripped and repainting most of the woodwork.
All of the house woodwork and doors has several layers of gloss then a beige/brown type gloss paint with a dark brown stain on the wood underneath (see attached pic below).
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I've tried using a heat gun on it and the Gloss layers come off easy but leaves the behind a brown stain varnish which when heated looks orange and oily and doesn't come off.
I've tried a sample of Peelaway No.1 on part of the stairs and left it on for about 36 hours. When I peeled it off in one area (which I think had a thicker layer of paste) the brown stain came off. (see pic below)
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The guys that dipped and stripped the doors said this brown stain is very common in the area (Barking and Dagenham) and when I asked them for a quote to do strip the stairs they advised they really didn't want to do the job as it was difficult to remove. They suggested using a brillo pad on it and scrubbing it off.
Although I sanded, primed, under coated and top coated the wood I stripped in other parts of the house the pain seems to chip very easily and when it does the black shows through a lot.
Does anyone have any suggestions for the easiest way to remove this brown stain under the old gloss paint?
Is there a specific primer I need to use to improve the hold on this brown stained wood?
I'm reluctant to sand the wood down as it's the dust it produces is pretty irritant and I think it is also probably lead based.
Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Thanks
Martin
All of the house woodwork and doors has several layers of gloss then a beige/brown type gloss paint with a dark brown stain on the wood underneath (see attached pic below).
View media item 35701
I've tried using a heat gun on it and the Gloss layers come off easy but leaves the behind a brown stain varnish which when heated looks orange and oily and doesn't come off.
I've tried a sample of Peelaway No.1 on part of the stairs and left it on for about 36 hours. When I peeled it off in one area (which I think had a thicker layer of paste) the brown stain came off. (see pic below)
View media item 35700
The guys that dipped and stripped the doors said this brown stain is very common in the area (Barking and Dagenham) and when I asked them for a quote to do strip the stairs they advised they really didn't want to do the job as it was difficult to remove. They suggested using a brillo pad on it and scrubbing it off.
Although I sanded, primed, under coated and top coated the wood I stripped in other parts of the house the pain seems to chip very easily and when it does the black shows through a lot.
Does anyone have any suggestions for the easiest way to remove this brown stain under the old gloss paint?
Is there a specific primer I need to use to improve the hold on this brown stained wood?
I'm reluctant to sand the wood down as it's the dust it produces is pretty irritant and I think it is also probably lead based.
Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Thanks
Martin