Removing paint from skirting and archtrave?

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What’s the best way to do this? I thought heat gun or maybe sand blaster? We have a whole house to do.

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Do you want them to go back to a natural wood finish or are they going to be repainted?
 
It may be cheaper in the long run to remove all skirtings and architrave, carry out all the building work and upgrades then remove the rest of the paint on the door frames and any original timber that is left (with a heat gun) and then fit new skirting and new architrave.

Andy
 
If you can get them off a pine stripper will probably do a better job than a heat gun or sanding. Heat guns onto old paint with lead in it is 'not the safest thing to do (lead fumes) and for the same reason sanding requires a decent quality vacuum cleaner to be connected to the sander
 
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The commercial stuff (I.e. the old formulation which is still available to restricted trades) is pretty good, but the over the counter stuff you can buy nowadays is a lot less effective
 
If they are in good condition then they would only need to be sanded to provide a 'key' for the new paint.

Andy
 
It may be cheaper in the long run to remove all skirtings and architrave, carry out all the building work and upgrades then remove the rest of the paint on the door frames and any original timber that is left (with a heat gun) and then fit new skirting and new architrave.

Andy

That’s not a bad idea, the time it would take to strip them might mean buying new ones would be better.
 
If you can get them off a pine stripper will probably do a better job than a heat gun or sanding. Heat guns onto old paint with lead in it is 'tithe safest thing to do (lead fumes) and for the same reason sanding requires a decent quality vacuum cleaner to be connected to the sander

I hadn’t thought of lead paint. The newspapers under the carpets are from 1975/76 so I bet the paint is the same age.
 
The newspapers under the carpets are from 1975/76 so I bet the paint is the same age.
What was in the news then? Our house was built in 1960 and when we moved in in 1990, I found papers under the floors and the headline was all about Prince Phillip shooting his first tiger in India! Apparently they staked out a live goat and he waited in a hide until the tiger came along to eat it!
 
What was in the news then?

There was a bomb in Belfast, free parking in Bury and a 22” ‘colour’ TV was £369 :eek:

UPVC windows were a thing as well as designer front doors.
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That last one, I know a guy called Paul Horrocks so I showed him that and it turns out it was his Dad (same name) that wrote it. He lived in Bolton at the time then moved to Redcar.
 

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