now enters the crazy...

[kragore]

It was a crazy weekend, full of giant dumpsters, scraping wallpaper and stacking firewood.
It was deliciously exhausting.

Helped my dear with his house. Uncovered door mouldings from 1924. Going to push for him to refinish rather than replace them. Only issue there is the layers of paint over the very pretty wood. Yay, sanding. We also discovered that there's hardwood floors under the ass ugly linolium. Going to see about getting them refinished. Shu_Al, Darth Crone, and Garou all threw their hands into the fray with the wall-distroying, peeling and puttering, and so are all now certified Tools. ;-)

After Saturday's purge of the house, my dear and I went into town to see Warren Miller's Higher Ground. (http://www.warrenmiller.com/wmiller/highlights/)
We were exhausted; it was awesome. If you are into extreme sports, skiing, snowboarding, basejumping, even "sport skipping", really neat filmmaking, and cool soundtracks, this is a really cool gig. If you haven't seen it this year, you probably won't - it's already moved onto it's next city.

*(Between the purging and the movie-ing, there was bridal showering, with excellent food, and lots of fun people. I even got to herd them out the door. Indigo looked very happy, so all was right with the afternoon.)*

Sunday was filled with more scrapey-goodness, and then a break to stack firewood with the Catherd's. There was firewood and steak, it was a good thing. Then back in the car and to home, where, for a few hours, there was blissful sitting. Woo!

Illustrator is not here today. I took the cosmic hint and wore my fuzzy wool sweater. :)
For a while it was painfully quiet, but now, I must go entertain the phone...

- k.

Comments

[motomuffin.livejournal.com]

There exists a "gel" paint remover which works *wonders* on layers and layers of 192X era paint, while leaving the beautiful hardwood trim beneath blessedly untouched. Look for it at Home Despot.

The problem with sanding is that you can kill the detail in the moulding by sanding away the wood.

When working with the gel, leave it on for longer than it says to. When removing paint on door frames, wear eye protection and CLOSE YOUR MOUTH WHEN YOU LOOK UP AT THE PAINT REMOVER!! ;)

[darthgm.livejournal.com]

"Hey what's that tasty powder falling from the...AW DANG!"

*collapses*

[motomuffin.livejournal.com]

Actually it comes off in blobs of paint-remover-and-seven-layers-of-blobby-softened-paint.

You can just wipe it off in icky blobs with your (gloved) hands. Or, you know, let it slide to the floor, for effect. Or something.

It's not *terribly* caustic (nothing like turpentine) but ... still... mouth closed. *Ptui!*

[lordbleys.livejournal.com]

Good to know.
Not that I'll ever convince my landlord to let me strip the excessivly applied paint in our place.

At least the wanescotting in our entrance way isn't painted. That would be a crime.

[kragore.livejournal.com]

It's not really decorative molding - more like "Hey, we found a board that looks like it will fit here, and even matches!" Plus, I've removed the trim from the doorways/windows so we can get at the walls that need touching up, so no ingesting of any nasty chemicals will occur..

Do you knw if that gel strips clear-coating (like urathane) as well?

- k.

[motomuffin.livejournal.com]

The stuff I've used does strip clear-coating but does not muck-up the stain on the stained wood beneath.

[safirasilv.livejournal.com]

Here's a very public thank you to Kragore, wood-stacker extraordinaire!

[garou43.livejournal.com]

you said "tool".

hehe.