Paint Stripping a Door

William went out this past Friday and used his day off to help out where he could at the church.  The vapor barrier is up and the window in the bedroom is in.  Everything looks great! 

Something I have found very frustrating ever since the first time I walked through the church is that the previous owners have done things like this.

I understand the want/need to test out the paint before deciding but really?  Badly painted stripes in colours that do not go together... I just don't understand!

This interesting painting was also done to a set of doors as you enter the main church area upstairs.

This is the side that faces into the church.

And this is the side that faces into the hallway.

We could see the potential in the doors but wanted to see if there was anything under all that paint worth salvaging.  No sense in planning on using them just to find they are damaged or not even original to the church.

William took one of them off the hinge and we tried the paint stripper on one section just to see what was under there.

We were excited to see the same wood as multiple other items we have so we decided to strip the rest off as well.  I don't know if you will be able to see from the picture but all the paint is bubbling up off the wood.

And this is what the door looks like without all that paint.  This is after only one coat of the paint stripper.

The test area received two coats.

 



I don't know why someone wanted to cover these with paint.  They already look so much better!  We still need to put one maybe two more coats of paint stripper on this side then tackle the other side and the other door.  We only picked up a small bottle of the stripper as we didn't know how much we needed or if there was even going to be a need.  Yet another project!