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1140343 No.1140343 [Reply] [Original]

When did the fad of painting over wood work start?
I need to go back in time and fucking murder someone.

>> No.1140366

when people started to rent those places out.

>> No.1140371

>>1140343
anon - wtf are you doing there, and, why?
its a cupboard under the stairs that hides a monstrous POS no fucker wants to see - now, leave the fuck well alone, and go produce some offspring or something.

>> No.1140372

Replace if you don't like the paint. You don't have the patience for what you're trying.

>> No.1140382

>>1140371
It's my first time stripping paint. I'm learning in a low visibility area.
>>1140372
It's original tho.

>> No.1140387

>>1140382
For best results, take everything off and set it on some saw horses outside.

>> No.1140389
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>> No.1140392
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>>1140389

>> No.1140423

>>1140343
Do you die of lung cancer yet from all that lead based paint yet OP?

>> No.1140424

>>1140423
Just a matter of time.

>> No.1140427

>>1140343
Paint stripper (liquid).

>> No.1140445

>>1140382
Yeah but you're an idiot. You didn't even take the door off the hinge to start striping paint. And you're just striping a little here, little there, by the end of the week your going to have a pile of mess, no fully stripped pieces, and an eyesore.

Sometimes doing it right means doing nothing at all

>> No.1140449

>>1140371
>>>/b/

>> No.1140450
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>>1140389

>> No.1140460

>>1140382
>It's my first time stripping paint. I'm learning in a low visibility area.
Pull the millwork, steam the paint off. Don't scrape it.

>> No.1140462

>>1140449
If that post was /b/ tier to you, you may want to find a new board to hang out on. Better yet, find a new site. 4chan probably isn't for you.

>> No.1140466

>>1140462
>>1140371
>>1140445
Do you feel threatened, kid?

>> No.1140469

>>1140460
Would I be beater off using a heat gun?

>> No.1140479

>>1140343
Just use a brass or mild steel wire wheel on low RPMs . Resand it all smooth. Thank me later

>> No.1140507

>>1140466
If you're claiming samefag, wrong, but please don't make me screenshot it because I'm just too damned lazy to be assed right now. Threatened? No. The more the merrier, but my comment stands: that's not even the /b/-est post in this thread, and if it offends then this isn't the place to be. Lastly, I'm probably old enough to be your father. Don't you notice my shitty "Dad sense of humor" and how preachy I am? But you made me laugh, so I like you.

If it were me OP, I'd do as much >>1140479 as possible, with a mask because it's going to be lead paint. Not even a lead freak, I've cast my own bullets for years, but I wouldn't want to breath flakes of that shit or dust from it.

>> No.1140634

>>1140343
>lead paint everywhere
Are trying to lower your IQ, rid yourself of what little patience you have, and make yourself more aggressive at the same time?

>> No.1140635

>>1140466
Seems >>1140507 is. kek

>> No.1140636

>>1140389
Whoever paints over outlet covers/wall registers/etc should be executed.

Even trying to paint around them instead of taking them all off before painting is worth of death.

>> No.1140637

>>1140636
They do it alot in apartments , they basicly go in and spray everything with a hvlp gun and call it a day before a new tenant moves in so they get clean new apartment feeling

>> No.1140641

>>1140634
Yeah, if I do I might finally get a gf.

>> No.1140644
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1140644

hmm...looks like my house

>> No.1140645

>>1140644
Looks like the exact same profile on the board to.
Bro, tear that shit out and give it to me.

>> No.1140661

>>1140343
I judt pur click together flooring over hardwood floors.

I dont give a fuck

>> No.1140705

>>1140343
Should have just left it alone. This isn't 240 year old antique molding this is 25 year old mass produced cheap pine bullshit molding.

>> No.1140707

>>1140366
Boomers aren't people, they are reptillian in nature

>> No.1140738

>>1140450
yea but at least you can cut the wall paper off lol

>> No.1140749

>>1140371

>telling an idiot to produce offspring

you're retarded

>> No.1140817

>>1140705
No, it's original molding, I can tell by the nails holding it in and the FIVE THOUSAND FUCKING LAYERS OF PAINT ON TOP OF IT.

>> No.1140819

>>1140469
You're not using one? no wonder it's taking so long. Put some cardboard or MDF or something down so you don't damage the floor if you use one.

>> No.1140821

>>1140343
>>1140817
>>1140644
New England?

Same ancient painted over molding here too.

>> No.1140825

>>1140821
Virginia.

>> No.1140841

>>1140469

Dude why are you not using a belt sander?

>> No.1140844

>>1140841
I don't want to remove wood and besides, a belt sander wouldn't be able to get in all the nooks and crannies.

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>>1140844

>He doesn't own a high powered pressure washer or sand blaster.

>> No.1140850

Once I acquired my homestead, I set upon cleaning the kitchen table from paint.

6 layers.

You know what I discovered? IT HAS A SHITTY PLYWOOD SURFACE, AND IS GENERALLY WORTHLESS.

I'll repurpose it as a workbench and build a new table. Local mill appears to have cheap larch on sale

>> No.1140863

>>1140644
>>1140645
Do you guys live in the midwest? I moved to Minnesota from Washington and everyone has this same sort of trim/circle corner pieces/every-bit-of-wood-painted motif and it drives me nuts.