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PersonMike313
01/1/2017 at 12:29pm
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Quote: Originally posted by rjtcamplet on 01/1/2017
Why dont you just use the existing wood as a base and cover it with new wood, if wood is your thing?



The existing wood, being (I think) from an old church has some lovely carved features which I want to retain ...


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Quote: Originally posted by kpnuts81 on 01/1/2017
Mike313 the only thing wrong with your plan of 4 inch square stripping is if they are all different coloured wood will be trying to blend the patches back in so maybe smaller area and somewhere that isn't noticeable,



That's a good point.


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Mike313 I am a decorator by trade but cannot advise you on what to use without seeing the wood, but whatever you decide do a small patch in an obscure place such as back edge of a door or inside of a cupboard door frame


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I will suggest it again, get a professional to sand blast it, in next to no time the wood will be like new with all the old filth blown away.

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PersonMike313
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Thanks everybody for the advice. It is much appreciated.


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Soda crystals and cif in hot water with a non stick scourer if you want to use elbow grease as well.

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I did something similar using a steam cleaner and a scourer with fairy liquid on it.


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OH is a decorator.

He's had to decorate a number of kitchens where the grease is, shall we say, quite old.

Sugar soap, warm water and elbow grease will shift all the grease (wear rubber gloves) but will not remove any varnish if it exists. Be very careful if using a scraper as it can easily gouge the wood. To get into mouldings and carvings, try using a nail brush with the sugar soap

Then at least you will know what you are dealing with.

Sandblasting will pretty much render any carvings into a blurry mass, so wouldn't advise this at all.

Steam cleaning may work, or the heat/moisture combined may dissolve any glues used in the construction of the panels/doors

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Could you get them dipped and stripped, like everyone used to do with painted Victorian pine doors? Guessing this process would remove all grime and varnish but not damage the carvings. You could then just re varnish or oil them.
Jim


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Quote: Originally posted by Jim1977 on 09/1/2017
Could you get them dipped and stripped, like everyone used to do with painted Victorian pine doors? Guessing this process would remove all grime and varnish but not damage the carvings. You could then just re varnish or oil them.
Jim


It might prove a little hard to get the floor and walls dipped don't you think?

Stick with sugar soap for safety and ease and sucess.


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PersonRomaway
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May not be appropriate, but as a general ti, I find cut up old plastic bank or membership cards scrape off grease well without too much damage. I use the points to get into crevices.

Not much info about the whole job that you have to do but bet it will look good once you have done it.


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moppets dad - I thought by "on the floor" the OP meant the floor standing base units rather than the floor surface, but I may well be wrong. Take your point about the wall cladding I was thinking of the cupboard doors only...


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Just an update folks! The work is progressing - slowly (more due to my bad back than anything else!). I am using sugar-soap with a variety of tools (deck-brush, pot-scrubber, wire wool, sponges, j-cloths and an old nailbrush and toothbrush for the detailed bits). The decades of hard grease was so thick in places, I had to remove it with a painter's triangular scraper before using the sugar-soap, and it came off like shavings of wood it was so thick (2-3mm). So far it has been going well :).
Thanks again for all the helpful advice.



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