Baby steps
We are slowly but surely making progress upstairs. We now have all the door frames and window sill heat gunned, and the door frames about half completed in the chemical stripping process. So far I’ve slathered two buckets of plaster into the closet where we removed the rod and surrounding wood. We have our third bucket so I’ll work on completing that tonight.
The salvageable trim has been removed (for some reason much of the upstairs trim is mismatched) and as of yesterday is being dip-stripped. We’ll get that back in a couple of days and I’ll proceed with my hammer and screwdriver technique of removing all of the stubborn paint chips that remain, sanding it down, cleaning it with denatured alcohol, staining and shellacing. Then we’ll reinstall, after having given the rooms a fresh coat of paint. (Do you like how I sum all this up neatly like we’ll just knock this all out one afternoon and cheerio, we’re done).
In my optimistic world this is all done in the next two weeks by the time they arrive to refinish the floors. In reality I’m thinking that moving back upstairs is going to be a wonderful Christmas present.
The salvageable trim has been removed (for some reason much of the upstairs trim is mismatched) and as of yesterday is being dip-stripped. We’ll get that back in a couple of days and I’ll proceed with my hammer and screwdriver technique of removing all of the stubborn paint chips that remain, sanding it down, cleaning it with denatured alcohol, staining and shellacing. Then we’ll reinstall, after having given the rooms a fresh coat of paint. (Do you like how I sum all this up neatly like we’ll just knock this all out one afternoon and cheerio, we’re done).
In my optimistic world this is all done in the next two weeks by the time they arrive to refinish the floors. In reality I’m thinking that moving back upstairs is going to be a wonderful Christmas present.
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