weegieavlover
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Hey All...
I live in a Victorian House and I am restoring the wood in the Livingroom from a garish orange (YES ORANGE!) colour back to the natural wood. I have been using a combination of heat gun, Nitromors-esk (not Nitromors as this stuff is industrial and good) and Peel Away.
The Heat gun I have had to stop using as I have discovered the other layers have lead in them, which is putting fumes into the air and I have not mask to protect me from that, the other issue is the smoke alarms are going nuts when I use the heat gun for too long (they are wired to the mains but still go off even when I turn them off).
The Nitromors-esk stuff has been great, however with the tools I have (mainly a shaving hook, paint blade & wire wool) I am struggling to remove the paint from the detailed bits contained within the shutters around the windows.
The bits stuck in the detailed wood seem to be set like conrete and are not reacting very much to the Nitromors stuff.
I have a thought that dremel type tool with some of the bits available maybe useful to get into these areas and remove the paint without damaging the wood too much.
Anyone think this is a good or ridiculous idea?
I live in a Victorian House and I am restoring the wood in the Livingroom from a garish orange (YES ORANGE!) colour back to the natural wood. I have been using a combination of heat gun, Nitromors-esk (not Nitromors as this stuff is industrial and good) and Peel Away.
The Heat gun I have had to stop using as I have discovered the other layers have lead in them, which is putting fumes into the air and I have not mask to protect me from that, the other issue is the smoke alarms are going nuts when I use the heat gun for too long (they are wired to the mains but still go off even when I turn them off).
The Nitromors-esk stuff has been great, however with the tools I have (mainly a shaving hook, paint blade & wire wool) I am struggling to remove the paint from the detailed bits contained within the shutters around the windows.
The bits stuck in the detailed wood seem to be set like conrete and are not reacting very much to the Nitromors stuff.
I have a thought that dremel type tool with some of the bits available maybe useful to get into these areas and remove the paint without damaging the wood too much.
Anyone think this is a good or ridiculous idea?