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I’m stripping my garage door
A couple years back, just after we bought our home, I wanted a fun project with my father - building a flower box. It was white… I told him we’re gonna stain it brown, and being the Eastern European he is, thought I was nuts. “You don’t have brown anywhere else around the house… just keep it the same…” We went with a brown stain to highlight the wood… because I had a plan… Living on a cliff, we had a lovely custom made fence… that needed replacing. Brown it was. Replaced the roof, and they jacked up the lattice over the garage, so we rebuilt it… in cedar, stained brown. Our home is roughly 100 years old… colonial revival… sadly not a Sears home… but we thought it might be time to replace the garage door last year, because “it sounds like a train coming through the house every time you open or close it.” Turns out, the mechanics are pre war, steel… The last thing we have to go this brown, that started with that little flower box, was the garage door. Unfortunately, we had 90+ years of paint on it, and I decided that was my project. Started with blasting with baking soda, which got upgraded to walnut shells, but couldn’t get more than an inch done at a time because… there was so much paint; at least 5 layers. I don’t know what lead smells like, but while working, I was taken back to elementary school - #2 special FTW. So we pivoted to a heat gun, which was fun… but mind numbingly slow. Paint stripper it was! Still a process, as each panel took 3-4 coats of stripper, then scraping. What started as a final experiment today at 11:00am turned into 8 hours (and 2 trips to the hardware store) to get part of the way there. Maybe I’ll get to staining before the exposed wood rots… submitted by /u/Lemkish [link] [comments]
| | A couple years back, just after we bought our home, I wanted a fun project with my father - building a flower box. It was white… I told him we’re gonna stain it brown, and being the Eastern European he is, thought I was nuts. “You don’t have brown anywhere else around the house… just keep it the same…” We went with a brown stain to highlight the wood… because I had a plan… Living on a cliff, we had a lovely custom made fence… that needed replacing. Brown it was. Replaced the roof, and they jacked up the lattice over the garage, so we rebuilt it… in cedar, stained brown. Our home is roughly 100 years old… colonial revival… sadly not a Sears home… but we thought it might be time to replace the garage door last year, because “it sounds like a train coming through the house every time you open or close it.” Turns out, the mechanics are pre war, steel… The last thing we have to go this brown, that started with that little flower box, was the garage door. Unfortunately, we had 90+ years of paint on it, and I decided that was my project. Started with blasting with baking soda, which got upgraded to walnut shells, but couldn’t get more than an inch done at a time because… there was so much paint; at least 5 layers. I don’t know what lead smells like, but while working, I was taken back to elementary school - #2 special FTW. So we pivoted to a heat gun, which was fun… but mind numbingly slow. Paint stripper it was! Still a process, as each panel took 3-4 coats of stripper, then scraping. What started as a final experiment today at 11:00am turned into 8 hours (and 2 trips to the hardware store) to get part of the way there. Maybe I’ll get to staining before the exposed wood rots… [link] [comments] |
