Well if it was truly an oil stain it may not. Of course I always used a scrap per to remove and smooth and sanding was necessary to clean up things so likely I was removing some wood. It sould not take a lot of sanding unless it was a real soft wood and pourus. Technically wood can be b leached, but it the new stain is close to the old why not sand a bit and try the new in a out of the way place. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: Ralph Supernaw To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 4:27 PM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] Stripping stane
We tried a couple applications of the stripper. It removed everything that was sitting on the wood but not the old stain that had penetrated the wood. Would adding another coat of strippper remove what had soaked into the wood? _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron Yearns Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 3:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Stripping stane Did you try another application of the stripper? If not try another. Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: Ralph Supernaw To: blindhandyman@ <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 3:11 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Stripping stane Hi, My mom has some doors she would like to have stripped and refinished. We tried one door this weekend to see how things would go. What we found was that the paint came off pretty easily but the original stain that had been painted over didn't come off so easily. I basically had to sand off the surface of the door to get to wood that wasn't stained. That leaves me with a couple questions: 1. Is there a way to more easily remove the stain? Several of the doors she wants done are French doors and so would be very hard to sand without damaging the door. 2. We are refinishing with stain that is very close to the color of the original stone. How difficult would it be to simply restain over the old stone? Thanks for your help. Ralph [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
