Well 2012 has not exactly been a good year for house projects, but we could not let it go by without at least doing one. We got this crazy hair brained idea to strip all the paint off our garage door and expose the beautiful cypress wood that we knew was laying underneath.
I first tried the orange stripper with some success, but decided it was going to take forever at that rate.
In an attempt to avoid having to use a stronger chemical stripper, I headed to Home Depot and purchased a heat gun. It worked pretty well, but after several hours and very little progress, I decided this was a two women job!
I got started on this while LD was deployed to Hurricane Sandy, and the first weekend she was back I went and purchased a second heat gun. I was right, work goes much faster with two women!
We spent multiple hours over the last couple of weeks working with heat guns, a citrus stripper, a chemical stripper, an orbital sander, and a Multimax with a sanding attachment to remove two layers of paint, one layer of primer (primer from hell), and a gray semi-transparent stain off the door.
I first tried the orange stripper with some success, but decided it was going to take forever at that rate.
In an attempt to avoid having to use a stronger chemical stripper, I headed to Home Depot and purchased a heat gun. It worked pretty well, but after several hours and very little progress, I decided this was a two women job!
I got started on this while LD was deployed to Hurricane Sandy, and the first weekend she was back I went and purchased a second heat gun. I was right, work goes much faster with two women!
We spent multiple hours over the last couple of weeks working with heat guns, a citrus stripper, a chemical stripper, an orbital sander, and a Multimax with a sanding attachment to remove two layers of paint, one layer of primer (primer from hell), and a gray semi-transparent stain off the door.
This morning we finally cleaned all the wood with a wood prep cleaning solution.
We are quite pleased with how our Cypress garage door cleaned up. It was a ton of elbow grease, but we decided it was certainly worth the effort. It will be a few days before we can stain it (we need to allow some dry time), which means we need to spend some time deciding on a stain.
We are quite pleased with how our Cypress garage door cleaned up. It was a ton of elbow grease, but we decided it was certainly worth the effort. It will be a few days before we can stain it (we need to allow some dry time), which means we need to spend some time deciding on a stain.
Come back to see how it all turns out.
