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March 18, 2005
paint stripping
I am stripping old shutters and surrounding window frames in my Park Slope brownstone. Under the oil paint there's a very thick whitish primer that looks like chalk and is very hard to remove. After some google research I have concluded it must be milkpaint; none of the products I have tried does a really good job. Does anyone have any experience with this, any favorite product to recommend? Thanks, Laura
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If you can remove them, have them dipped!
I used a guy in Staten Island whose number I got out of the yellow pages. I think it was called Big Apple Stripping -- definately Big Apple something. He had free pickup and delivery, and 10 years ago it was $75 per door, and the hinges and antique doorknobs came back perfect, hung on a wire. My doors returned stripped and sanded, and it was a huge relief when I was in the middle of hitting a mile of mouldings with a heat gun.
No suggestions on milk paint specifically, although I did prefer a HEAT GUN for my 100 year old paint accumulation -- no idea what was in that mess. I tried Zip Strip and another kind in a bucket that you applied, covered with a special paper and left for 24 hours before peeling. I didn't like either of those. The Zip Strip also made the old pine I was stripping absorb stain in an uneven way.
Good luck!
Posted by: Lisa at June 6, 2005 2:31 PM
the Big Apple Guy is good, reasonable prices, knows a lot. He did my doors and shutters.
Posted by: TK at March 9, 2006 1:33 PM
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