The doors have a profile so it may be difficult to remove all the dark stain from them.
Not sure of the best way to do this.
Nitromoors?
Or another solvent?
if you dip oak doors it will ruin them, i know cause i used to have a business doing that. What you need is the waterery type Nitromours, and a small tooth brush type wire brush and that will remove the hard bits of stained laquer from the profile corners. Another method is to use the same nitromors and then powerwasher the doors, but you have to be very careful and get it right first time.
I agree about not to strip, I'd also use Nitromores but the thick type. If using thick, it takes longer to evapourate and therefore is able to spend more time sitting on the surface and eating away at the stain before removing. Buy a suede brush (small brass wire brush) amd use that to scrub up and down the grain to get rid of the stain. A steel brush would be too fierce and gouge out the grain pores too much, and anyway, steel and oak don't mix if your putting any water based product on it afterwards. ie the oak may develope black spots!
Yes fair enough each to their own but in my experience restoring antique furniture for a living and stripping hundreds of peices of furniture of all types over 26 years. what I said. Thin paint stripper dries quicker and you can only put so much on before it literally drips off the surface whereas thicker stripper will sit there for far longer. If you use a wire brush as in STEEL wire brush on oak, its a fair bet that if you wash off stripper with water as instructed on some tins) or use a water based finsihing product, possibly some residue from the steel bristles will be in the grain and you'll get your black spots. You can rid these easily as you probally know but Joe Public wont know how
Exactly Matz as you are the kind of person i did this work for, and also you forgot to mention why it is important to remove and of the leftover nitromous.
If you dont mind the cost you could try Ready Strip available from TV shopping channels.
At over £40 including p&p it's a bit pricey but wont harm the wood and will remove many coats of paint or varnish. Ready Strip at Shopsmart
I have an old chest of drawers with over 80 years of paint layers that I will use ready strip to cleanup.
If you dont mind the cost you could try Ready Strip available from TV shopping channels.
At over £40 including p&p it's a bit pricey but wont harm the wood and will remove many coats of paint or varnish. Ready Strip at Shopsmart
I have an old chest of drawers with over 80 years of paint layers that I will use ready strip to cleanup.
I have solid oak, not veneered, kitchen doors and frames, which are medium / dark stained, i woul real like to lighten them up to a light oak, what would be the best way to strip them back?
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