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Watching a restoration demo at the county fair convinced me to always strip paint with a heat gun first, not just chemical stripper.
The demonstrator, a guy from a local guild, showed how the heat gun lifted 8 layers of old paint from a 1920s dresser in under an hour, revealing pristine oak underneath that the stripper would have just gummed up.
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jenny_hall8d ago
Pristine oak underneath" sounds way better than my last attempt, which just revealed my own shame and some weird sticky goo.
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coleman.gray7d ago
Yeah, a heat gun was a total game changer for me too. That goo @hannahsingh mentioned is the worst, and the heat just turns it to dust you can brush off. Saved an old door that way last summer.
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