More Scraping

Another weekend without Karen so another weekend of woodwork and continuing scraping in the second bedroom. Not too much more exciting to say about the scraping besides that it’s labor intensive and messy. I get about 75% through a first pass of the room. After I hit the last wall I’ll then need to employ the Speedheater to help get the remaining paint off. It does seem that the closer to the ceiling you get, the more the paint adhered to the wall. Maybe the calcimine was thinner towards the ceiling?

Stripping paint. Notice towards the ceiling it gets harder to remove the latex paint.

Starting a new spot to scrape.

After a session of scraping.

Outside of the paint removal, the other task is finishing up the woodwork. Closet door and woodwork in the bedroom gets another coat of Waterlox. This is the second coat and it’s using the standard sheen Waterlox. I like the satin finish so after 24 hours I put on the last coat using the low sheen Waterlox. This goes fine for the woodwork, but the closet door looks a little streaky. Maybe it’s from applying with a rag, but there’s some areas that are hard to get a clean application because I always end up with some rag streaking. I read on the Waterlox site and then have a FAQ for getting a smooth finish that involves a final buff out with steel wool and then applying with a brush. I’ll let this door sit for the rest of the week and then try that next weekend.

More Waterlox.

Applying Waterlox to woodwork with a rag.

Woodwork with last coat of Waterlox.

The main door is a bit behind the closet door with endless stain repairs. Last I left it, I had sanded the repair too much so I put on another coat of stain. I’m a lot more careful this time using a 1000 grit sandpaper along with mineral spirits to smooth out the stain repair, but also not cut through too much of the stain to expose bare wood. I even had a drip I had to rub out so luckily I can carefully get rid of that using lubricated steel wool. After I get the stain sanded down, I put on some shellac over the repairs. After that dries I then put on the first coat of Waterlox finally getting to the end of the line with this door.

Waterlox applied. No more futzing with the stain!