Removing paint: Time for sanding?

[DIYalot]

Hi. The door is from 1957. It was first painted with a dark blue paint, then green, then yellow. I used a heat gun and the yellow blistered and peeled off easily. Then I used Wickes Paint Remover and that softened the green so I removed that. Then I have used the paint remover on the blue, twice, and the result is what you see in the photo. I scrubbed with steel wool.

Perhaps if I were using Notromors I'd have cleared all the blue by now. But, it seems to me, looking at what I've got, that the only option I have now, if I want to completely remove the blue - or the easiest option now - is to sand until there is no more blue. Would you say I'm right?

Thanks.

 

[DIYalot]

I think the situation is, here, that the wood is fairly textured, (not very smooth) and the blue paint is lodged in crevices. And that it will take sanding to remove all the blue. But, I'm not an expert.

 

[joe-90]

Modern paint removers are rubbish, including the new Nitromorse. You can have the door dipped.

 

[joe-90]

Oh and the likelihood is that the old paint contains lead oxide.

 

[DIYalot]

Since I will be repainting this door, does the picture show that I'm okay to leave things as they are (not down completely to bare wood) and just repaint?

 

[joe-90]

If you were painting it you should have given it a rub down then undercoat. No need to strip it all.

 

[DIYalot]

I suppose the surface - as now is, which is partly bare wood, partly the old paint - will take a primer? Assuming I'd use a primer. I'll be wanting a cream or white colour as top coat.

 

[joe-90]

Yes.