Feel free to pitch questions and Stuph in my direction; as an Old House Owner I've dealt with (or have Old-House friends who have dealt with) a bunch of the same things you're dealing with, or soon will be.
As far as the paint goes, I haven't found any eco-friendly stripper that can out-do pure-dee methylene chloride, liver-killing as that junk is. I have something like nine layers to get through in the older part of Our House. This is one reason why, when I'm stripping house parts, I take them out in the yard and work on sawhorses. (Granted, right now this is easier for me to do in Texas than for you to do in Maryland.) I may wind up having to use 3M's Safest Stripper indoors anyhow, because of the fumes from using methylene chloride in enclosed spaces. A friend of mine swears Safest Stripper is just as effective as Bix. I ain't so sure. Interior paint stripping at Chez W is at a standstill for a few years more, until M is old enough that any lead dust I may set free won't stunt her brain.
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Date: 2003-11-09 06:41 pm (UTC)Feel free to pitch questions and Stuph in my direction; as an Old House Owner I've dealt with (or have Old-House friends who have dealt with) a bunch of the same things you're dealing with, or soon will be.
As far as the paint goes, I haven't found any eco-friendly stripper that can out-do pure-dee methylene chloride, liver-killing as that junk is. I have something like nine layers to get through in the older part of Our House. This is one reason why, when I'm stripping house parts, I take them out in the yard and work on sawhorses. (Granted, right now this is easier for me to do in Texas than for you to do in Maryland.) I may wind up having to use 3M's Safest Stripper indoors anyhow, because of the fumes from using methylene chloride in enclosed spaces. A friend of mine swears Safest Stripper is just as effective as Bix. I ain't so sure. Interior paint stripping at Chez W is at a standstill for a few years more, until M is old enough that any lead dust I may set free won't stunt her brain.