Stripping Painted Pine Floors

Ideal for lead paint and masonry but can stain furniture woods.

Stripping painted pine floors.

There is a significant difference in hard and soft wood as the grain of soft wood is. This paste works with a paper cover to control evaporation. Peel off the paper and scrub the surface with a wet brush. After five minutes remove the old varnish or paint from the surface using a scraping tool.

Up to 30 layers of paint can come off as easily as stripping sheets off a bed. It was cheap and readily available so safe to say it s everywhere. C dip the brush into a wood stripping agent made especially for pine and spread a thin layer of stripping agent over furniture in single strokes. Let dry thoroughly then apply a neutralizing solution.

The majority of floors were constructed of wood planks from 8 to 18 wide because narrow boards were expensive to prepare in a pre industrial era and therefore reserved for the best rooms. Pine floor planking is in the category of a soft wood whereas most wood floors are commonly referred to as hardwood. It can be painted on just the way you would apply regular paint. In early houses every feature had a practical origin and wide board painted wood floors were no exception.

Work on small sections at a time aylott advises and apply the paint uniformly so it will strip the paint evenly.