EP97 Stripping Paint
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Last winter we began the restoration of an upstairs bedroom. Now that the summer heat has let up, we're back on track to get this room done. At the end we'll show you an example of what the room should look like.
Paint stripping is not for the faint of heart. I appreciate all your efforts, Mike. 🙂
Thank you Leanne!
That wood is so dreamy! Absolutely love the untouched room, beautiful!!
That room is what sold the house!
Years ago I stripped a bead board ceiling and I used an ice pick to clean the narrow joins between the boards. The ceiling was and still is stunning. (Peoria old house addict)
Thank you for your service! :-)
Excited to see you two restore this and the rest of the rooms. I love watching you remove the paint. Hey, I was with your 4 year old fan when your video dropped Friday night. We had to rewatch last week's video with the tractor so I just watched this video today. 🤣
That is awesome! He is probably our youngest viewer.
Great job you too! I find it satisfying to watch that paint come off. It's a job I would be content doing.
All you need now is some painted woodwork to practice on. :-)
Such pretty wood. It's a lot of work but I know when ya'll are done it's going to be beautiful. As usual, love the music, I fell like I should be wearing a hat and gloves as I watch.
Lol!
You two as a couple are beautiful! 💙
Yessss!!!!!!!! It's nice you're able to take a break from outdoors and work on some of the interior spaces again (and without the fear of losing it). The wood looks so beautiful and the time it's taking to restore it is very encouraging to me. When restoring my great-grandfather's chest of drawers, I took some time-cutting measures in stripping the paint and it didn't pay-off in the end. A carbide scraper did WONDERS and left it clean afterward...but then I found out the paint contained lead.... Always learning new lessons with restoration. Can't wait to see the entire room completed!
The summer heat is starting to break and we can finally get upstairs again. I'm glad you were able to restore a family heirloom!
Hi mike and Jeanie, I love your restoration work. I made it to Quincy, California. I bought a 1908 . On a .49 lot size. 3 levels my cousin and I are restoring it. Someone pulled out original baseboards , put down particle board ugly tiles. I pulled up three layers and found Douglas fir yellow flooring . Like you say how can people miss treat original details. I have to sand those original wood floors thank you for your hard work it does pay off.
Ahh, Gold Country! You're just a short drive to Lake Tahoe, and Portola has a great railroad museum. That's quite a switch from NYC!
Just realized you use the same theme music as A Taste of History.
Great channel about historical recipes.
Interesting! Thanks for letting us know.
I commented before how I spent my youth scraping paint off woodwork in our old farm house. I always hoped the people living there enjoyed the work my Dad and I did. I discovered the house for sale on a real estate website. The house had been flipped and every bit of the wordwork was painted black. I never could show my Dad.
Oh that’s a crying shame! I understand why you couldn’t show your Dad. I stopped watching another channel when she ripped out the original tile in front of the fireplace and painted the walls dark blue!
I don't know about anyone else but while I enjoy watching the actual work, I enjoy the music better. Good old '20's, 30's stuff I'd guess with some '40's big band.
Oldies but goodies!
I noticed bead board on the ceiling. You don't see a lot of that in the upstairs rooms in old houses. At least not here in KY. I only remember it being on the porch ceilings, kitchen and bathrooms. I love it tho.
It is strange but there isn't a scrap of plaster on any of the ceilings here, it's 100% bead board.
A bit of practice helps with the coordination. You are on a roll now! I too like to vary work in ground level and vertical locations to give the old bod a break. We should all be glad there are no swarms of evil pixies slopping white paint back on your stripped wood as you sleep. Now there's a nightmare, lol. :)
Lol! That would be a nightmare!
i honestly don't think id ever have the patience for heat stripping. totally understand why you do it, and it speaks to your character, for sure! lol
You're getting faster...leaving the heat on the next area as you're scraping the one you just heated. Much more efficient.
When I was seven my family moved into to a railway station (my father was a station agent) and the waiting rooms of those old stations often had bead board ceilings as well as wainscoting, wide baseboards and cove moldings. It was the first I'd ever seen unpainted wood. It was the 60s in the Canadian prairies and most household trim was inexpensive pine, so it got painted. That ceiling was a revelation to me and I think it was when I fell in love with wood, even cheap pine looks beautiful to me.
Wow, thanks for sharing that story! What could be more interesting than living in a rail depot?
Hey folks! 🙂
Its been in the 80's/90's here in RAIN-couver. I am looking forward to Fall, the cooler weather, and spooky storytelling by the fireside! 🤗 (hint-hint)
The floor up there looks really pretty!
I like watching you scrape the paint off, Manly! LOL Talk about watching the paint strip! LOL🤣 Thanks for the ASMR
Was that Madame Butterfly singing "Fly Me To the Moon?? 😮 Oohh, I love that music! The instrumentals, so beautiful and magical💐♥️ I' m getting misty eyed; while watching you scrape! 😭
All that beautiful grain. Whoever painted over it needs a stiff kick in the rear end! 🤗
Things are coming along. Nice to see you inside again!
Take care🙏💕
Hello Heidi! I'm not sure who was singing that version of the song. Remember the TV show "Emergency!" from the 1970s? Julie London (AKA nurse Dixie) actually recorded that song too. Check it out: th-cam.com/video/MeLVCeErypY/w-d-xo.html
I'm glad that you two are getting to stay and restore that absolutely gorgeous house!
We agree!
Great job on the paint stripping Mike thanks again for sharing
Thanks for watching!
You two are AWESOME!!!!!!
You are awesome too! Thanks for watching. :-)
It is just beautiful! Thank you for sharing! Have a blessed day!
Thank you! You too!
Such hard work! Great Job looks beautiful!
Thanks Penny!
Somehow you two make watching Mike scrape wood enjoyable 🤣 Hope all is good.
Lol!
It’s going to be so beautiful when finished, all that work will pay off!
It will be a room of creativity.....Jeanie wants a sewing room. :-)
You two have patience I could only wish for! The tedious work of removing the paint is necessary but not something I could do. The room will look fabulous when all is said and done. Hugs, Doc❤️
Stripping is my least favorite job, but the results are worth it. :-)
Its coming along Mike, it will look so nice!
The room is starting to feel more Victorian. Thanks!
It's just beautiful! You guys are doing a great job! I'm so glad you're taking the paint off, and I admire all the work!
Thanks. It's slow and tedious but we are seeing some good results.
Actually looks like a relaxing project and good choice of music. Just the little bit I have worked with stripper I find it a nightmare. That is an amazing little instrument and doesnt seem to make a lot of mess like stripper. I never could wrap my head around why people wanted to paint beautiful solid wood, unless its crappy pine or some type of engineered wood. Then to add to the headache they paint the hinges too. I think I would enjoy this kind of project on a cold rainy or dreary winter day and with some good tunes playing in the background. I am glad you went over how to acid wash brick in your other vid because I need to clean some brick and do some repair tuck pointing. The way its looking I may not get to it until next spring. Ran into some problems while working on another project so behind schedule. The original woodwork is gorgeous. Its going to be a beautiful house. Its not my hips that flair up, but my left foot with Metatarsalgia and is causing some problems lately. My prayers for you all to stay healthy and chipper so you can keep working and bring these wonderful vids.
Add in a mug of hot cocoa and you have a perfect winter day! We hope that your foot heals up soon.
"Patience makes perfect" my mum used to say. Must be decades since I heard Someone to Watch Over Me - lovely.
Indeed! I'm glad you enjoyed the song.
Within the last year I attended a home improvement show in Charlotte, they demonstrated using dry ice as a media blaster to remove paint, possibly you could find a company that does that and may do it for free for free advertisement.
I tried to locate a local firm which would do this (for a different project) but nobody here will touch residential work. Sounds intriguing though!
Seeing the paint bubble then removed was satisfying to watch!! 😅 That wood is amazing 🥰 Why do people paint wood?! I don’t get it! 💁🏻♀️ … what patience to get that work done 💪🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 looks amazing!! 💕💖
The more paint we remove, the more character and warmth begins to emerge.
Love that videography coming up the stairs! 😄
Thanks! 😃
sitting on a u-shape pillow (or cutting a U out of the back center of a foam pad) can help your lower back (when beneath the spine portion of your back) when sitting on floor because it reduces some of the stress on lumbar spine - - there is also a wheelie chair used for gardening that might help you out when doing the low work in room
How many paint layers on that door? Two?
Yes, two.
You are making me want to get mine out and start working but I'm done for the day, lol. It is like finding buried treasure when stripping paint. Even our transom windows are painted with three layers of various colors. I use citrus strip for them. Keep up the great work!
After this video was shot, we did some cleanup work on the wood and it looks amazing!
@@1834RestorationHouse I just watched your video again. I started stripping the oak door in the bathroom with the speed heater. 2 1/2 hours and 3/4's of one side done BUT how do I clean up the bits of paint that are still there? Do I go back over with speed heater again or something else? What do you do?
@@1065Olivia Funny you should ask. We're about to publish a video describing this very thing! You need some scotchbrite pads and DENATURED alcohol. Wear nitrile gloves! cut the pad into small strips, soak it in alcohol and then scrub the wood. That will get rid of the tiny bits and any leftover haze. Let us know how it turns out!
It’s going to be beautiful! That bedroom that hasn’t been touched is gorgeous! Your doing a great job! Watch you next week!
Thank you so much!!
I feel so bad you guys gotta strip it again
Great job . It will be beautiful when finished!
Your hips n I’m sure your behind is hurting but my knees would be killing me. Can’t sit like that with my knees bent. I think I’m much older than you LOL.
Love the gadget you’ve got there n especially those tools. It definitely helps with the work. I have to agree using a stripper on it . What a mess it would of made on your floors n take a lot longer. You did a fine job Mike. I feel for you in doing that ceiling. It had to hurt your neck something awful. But those ceilings are absolutely beautiful… all that bead board. How charming that is n to have it it everywhere.
Funny how they only painted one room white. Wonder if previous owners had a daughter n she wanted all the wood painted white.
Not much more to do until you look up. I’ll be thinking of you when that time comes.
♥️♥️♥️😊👍👍👍
Hi Shelly, there isn't a comfortable position anywhere in that room. :-)
I love that your bringing back the original wood! It's almost a crime to cover up all that beautiful wood with white paint.
We agree!!
Good job! Your attention to detail is amazing. You guys are perfectionists. I love it ❤
Hilda finally got a chance to watch ( after my late afternoon walk)👍the mantle look awesome 😎I am so happy that you two can stay in South Carolina and you can complete the restoration of this gorgeous home👍
Hard work and patience . So educational.
I used metal dental tools I got fairly inexpensive online for getting old paint out of details etc. I love everything you two are doing with this most awesome home. Oh I was wondering October is getting nearer I hope you do the storyteller time again this year.
Thanks for the tip! Dental picks sound like a great tool to have around.
@@1834RestorationHouse I was thinking perhaps the picks that are used to dig out the nut meat in nuts.
I bet you regret painting all of the woodwork, in that one room, when you thought that you might move again.
The room was already painted white, so what's another layer? :-)
Yes Mike you are right. I have been watching HGTV. They will take a beautiful old house and knock out walls and destroy or get rid of doors and woodwork to modernize the house. It breaks my heart. I understand bringing it up to modern functionality but don't destroy the integrity of the home. So many ppl such as you and Jeanie put a lot of time and work into restoring them, just to see it all destroyed.
Have you started your new job yet? Very informative video. Thanks
Yes, I started back at the end of July.
I was waiting for you to give the tip on how to remove the paint that had gotten between two pieces of wood. Keep up the good work! The wood is looking great!!
It doesn't look like you have layers of paint to deal with. That's odd, I would think there would be at least 5 or more on there. Mike I have to admit something about that scraper on wood gives me the heebie jeebies.😬
We think that the paint was applied 30-40 years ago. The scrapers are sharp and designed to pull off paint without gouging the wood.
Get a pint of brown paint and use an artist's brush to cover any white paint you couldn't strip from cracks and corners. Works great and no one will notice.
That's one way to do it. There are pens and dyes that also can be used.
@@1834RestorationHouse Same idea, I tried the pens, they're good for small jobs. Also, you'll never get an exact match so go a little darker rather than lighter, it will look aged or shadowed.
I'd love to know, if you have started looking for period appropriate light fixtures, furniture, etc? And what is your plan for that? Thats is a part of the journey, I would love to follow 😁
We've been focused on the bones of the house and haven't given much thought to the decor yet. This will be the first room to get a restoration so we've looked at wallpaper.
@@1834RestorationHouse I will say, though, that it might be a good idea to just keep an eye out for estate sales and on facebook marketplace anyway. You might get lucky and find some really nice bargains 🙂 The thing about these things, is that if you wait, till you actually need them, then it is almost certain, that they are either nowhere to be found, or really expensive...🙄
Thank you so much for this video. I unsuccessfully used a chemical stripper last weekend on a wood bench built onto my patio last weekend. Then heavy smoke descended from forest fires and I haven’t been able to go outside. Some paint came off but half of it didn’t and my back has been sore all week. Would you please give the name of that miracle strip heating unit you are using? [EDIT: I read your transcript and found the name of the Cobra gadget! 😁] I definitely want to get one. Also, the boards on my bench are flat as are the sides so can I use a plastic or metal putty knife? I’ve been discouraged all week but your vlog has brightened my mood considerably. I loved your background music and the scrapping didn’t bother me at all. 👏👏👏💐🌺🎉 The original wood is beautiful. The 1920’s house in which I was raised had all original wood but to modernize it, when my parents purchased the house they hired a crew of painters who covered every bit of wood with paint in 1954. Lead paint no doubt.
We highly recommend using the Speedheater scrapers because they don't dig into the wood like a putty knife would. If you don't care about that, then a putty knife might work but we've never tried it. We're glad that our videos can brighten your day!
If you aren't using chemicals how do you get the hinges and knob plate clean? Doesn't the door knob have an intricate design on it? Good thing that one room has been left un painted as you have a beautiful "example/sample/picture" showing how the others are suppose to be, thus giving an incentive to restore as it should be. Good job! 👍
We'll try to remove the hardware paint with heat and a stiff brush. That untouched bedroom is what sold the house!
I had a hard time with the scraping sound but boy does that wood look gorgeous! Good for y'all for restoring it back to it's original beauty!
Have you thought about doing some time lapse with work like this?
Thanks! We use professional equipment which doesn't support time lapse so we rely on camera angles and other techniques.
@@1834RestorationHouse Your editing software may support converting longer segments to time lapse.
Wouldn’t it be great to have infrared vision at a time like this?!? 😁
Yes! Would I be blinded by the light?
Looks like you've made quite the dent in undoing some serious damage! I think you might be able to more easily undo the painted ceiling if you can find a chemical stripper and can saran wrap it after layering that and hopefully let it do more of the heavy lifting for you.
The house is coming along beautifully, I hope that you enjoy the upcoming weekend and look forward to your next uploads! ☺️✨🙏
Lovely work, so how did you remove the remining white flecks of paint on that door? You mentioned something about "doing a little bit of a polish", but didn't show the process. Do you have any details? I have a Victorian staircase to strip over in the UK so am collecting tips!
We used denatured alcohol and a scotch brite pad. It takes the speckles right off without harming the patina.
Wood a thin putty knife work well to help peel off the paint?
The putty knife has a tendency to dig in and damage the wood. I was skeptical whether I needed the scrapers but they work really well. I wouldn't do this without them, now that I've used them.
The beadboard looks kind of nice with the whitewash-look.
Although it must be really slow work, the end result is beautiful. Looking at your filming from the old episodes to this one, the difference also shows. In this one, I could actually see the paint bubbling up. The only thing which would drive me crazy is the scraping sound. Reminds me of a chalk board. When you finally start painting or wallpapering, will you be putting a liner on the walls first of all? Have a great week.
The sound of scraping in real life isn't so bad. Our microphones go crazy in empty rooms and amplify everything! Lol! We don't know yet if a liner will be needed.
@@1834RestorationHouse ok
You're going to change the original color of the wood to make it darker?
No. We're going to tint the shellac so that it has the same color as older wood. That will allow future restorers to get back to bare wood. If we stained the wood, then it would be a different color than the rest when the shellac is refinished 100 years from now.
Okay, just wondering.
@@FollowerOfYeshua1974 We're working on a video where we try some tinting experiments. It should be up in a few weeks. Thanks for writing!
Sounds interesting 😊
So it's back to scraping paint. It is a tedious and painstaking job but I know it will look absolutely beautiful when it is all done. Any ideas for wall paper?
We hope to have a wallpaper sample to show within a couple of weeks.
10 minutes to paint. 10 hours to remove. Seeing people paint gumwood makes my skin crawl.
Yes! We saw houses in New York have their gumwood ruined that way. When we were looking to buy a house in Rochester, guess which ones got snatched up first? It wasn't the painted ones.
@@1834RestorationHouse ha that’s funny I’m from Rochester. Lots of old beautiful houses here.
@@1834RestorationHouse by the way I tried this method with a heat gun last night after watching this video. You’re right, it was like magic. The paint fell right off the window sash and there was beautiful red oak underneath.
My wife and I painstakingly stripped, sanded, and stained all the baseboards and trim in our old house that was painted, this method is far more efficient.
I love the wood color, the patina is so beautiful. Unfortunately I had to turn off the sound a few times; just couldn't take the chalkboard scraping noise, never could. I did a very small room that was covered in a few layers of paint and it took me about two months to finish. I admire your fortitude here. Thanks for advocating for natural wood and not painted finish on older homes. So true about the work involved to get that paint off. Update on the range hood?
Mike, how is your job going? I was just curious is all.
I've been learning the ropes and things are going well.
Would the heat stripper work on oil paint?
Yes! It was designed for historic preservation and has no trouble busting through thick paint films, even oil.
Thank you so much for showing us stuff like this in detail!
how will you treat the door after it is cleaned? with a stain or what? I have a door in same condition and need some experienced suggestions on ways to bring a wooden door alive after stripping the paint and sanding a bit.
This is an old episode. A couple of episodes later we show one way to refinish the door. I would avoid sanding the door if it is historic because it removes the patina. We used the infrared stripper, followed by a good scrub with scotchbrite pads and denatured alcohol.
Takes forever.. Before the greenies took the methylene chloride out of the paint stripper it would fall off in 2 seconds not 24 hours.. Of course furniture companies can still get vat's to dip in.
They've been slowly taking away all of the good chemicals! Nice tubes in your thumbnail image.
@@1834RestorationHouse For our doors that i can remove. I'm trying to locate the guy in AR that was on fixer to fab, he has the huge tanks of MC to dip furniture/doors in. Then i can spend more time scraping the baseboards and trim( my hips/back hurt too)
Would it make sense to carefully uninstall the beadboard ceiling so that it would be easier to remove the paint and clean it up?
Ancient wood is brittle and I'm afraid it would beak.
It's going to look absolutely beautiful when finished. Do you have to sharpen those scrapping tools? Also, are you going to find old glazed tiles for the fireplace in that room? I'd love to know.
Great questions! Yes, the scrapers need to be sharpened from time to time. We have a special stone for that and they're about ready for it. I've been looking for a source of reproduction tile but haven't found any yet.
Why not use a good stripper on those doors I've seen so many people do it and I have done it myself it works really well
So does the infrared heater. Thanks for watching!
Which is worse. The sound of scraping the paint or the loud music hard for me to watch
Our microphones go crazy in that room. With hard plaster walls and no furniture, it's like an echo chamber.
Ouch, the squeeek sound it to much!!
Sorry guys but the wood is making the place to dark I like the wood painted to brighten the place up 😎