Stripping Old Paint
We're decorating one of the bedrooms - the red room, so named for the wall colours when we moved in - and part of doing so is giving all the woodwork a fresh coat of paint. It took quite some effort, but the result was worth it Rather than simply sand the window frames, skirting, and door frames, to provide a key for the new coat, we decided to take it back to the bare wood. Over the dozen or so decades since being installed, the detail on the architrave has been hidden by a build up of paint. This seemed like a good opportunity to reveal that detail once more. The test patch, conspicuously located at eye level The test patch showed promise. A number of scraping tools were needed to get into the various parts of the moulding. The straight blades ensured the small flat parts remained flat. The curved blades, both convex and concave, while not matching the exact curvature, still allowed the rounded parts to be accessed, though care was needed to avoid leavin...