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So . . . the porch is finally done! I mixed some green oil paint (from art store) with the red floor paint to make the color darker. That kind of worked, it looks pretty good. Nestor . . . thanks for all the advice!

My porch project is slowly, but steadily, moving along. It turned out that the laws in Massachusetts are stricter than I thought: although various stores claim to sell certain paints when you look at their website, they actually don't. No barn paint available! They are not allowed to order oil...

An update on my Spring porch project: after lots (ahum) of scraping, I was finally able to prime today! The ACE didn't really know what to use their interior/exterior paint for (no real surprise), so that paint is out for me I guess. However, it seems that no one sells regular exterior...

Good plan, I'll contact Ace. And post the result here, in case other people are reading this discussion and are wondering the same thing! After the TSP and rinsing of last night, I examined the porch today. It is hard to tell if the porch looks duller, not that much. I'll probably wet sand the...

I cleaned with TSP last night, the porch is drying now. I hope to prime to bare wood tomorrow. It will probably be next weekend before I can paint. [ This is a project for the weekends! ] I have one question left I guess: the paint. The Ace sells an interior/exterior alkyd floor paint. Would...

> Well, you've just proven that you no longer have any remaining latex > paint on your porch. Xylene will remove latex paint quickly. I think what > you're doing is removing oil based paint with the xylene. You could be right. Even after a few hours, the xylene didn't do that much...

An update on the porch: I tried the xylene this morning. After scrubbing for an hour or so, I stripped about 10 square inches. Yeah, ehm, I do understand it will take time, but with a 400 sq ft porch this will take forever. . . I was wondering if I'm doing something wrong. How does one use...

Thanks for the advice! I'll give the xylene a go over the weekend. I think there are only 2 layers of latex on there, so that shouldn't be too bad (I hope). The Ace sells an exterior alkyd floor paint, that was the paint I wanted to try.

Hi, I am about to repaint my (non-enclosed) porch. The top coat is latex floor paint right now (did not do this myself, done by previous owners). It flakes kind a bit, since the porch is open on 3 sides and exposed to rain. I am debating what the best way is to paint the porch. My...

So . . . in the end I decided to hacksaw through the spindle. There was a tiny bit of space behind the doorplate, enough the cut through the spindle. It took me 20 mins and one saw blade per door, so 1 hour and 3 blades later I was done. Thanks for all the tips!

This is a bit drastic . . . but I am at a complete loss by now. Just tried an electric `massage thingy' in the hope that the vibration of that thing might do something to the rust. Nope. Perhaps I will try to saw through the spindle somehow tomorrow. . .

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, these spindles are not threaded. (I was able to remove the (unrusted) knobs from a few other doors, they were not threaded.)

Hi, I am having a bit of a fight with some rusted door knobs. The knobs appear to be rusted to the spindle inside of the door. I managed to remove some rusted screws (lots of drilling. . .), so there should be nothing preventing me from removing the door knob. Except a lot of rust I...