Furniture, Wood and Cabinetry Finishing - First timer-cabinet stripping problem
Doityourself.com community forum was created to provide answers to all questions related to home improvement and home repair. Doityourself community can help you find information about how-to topics on small fixes to large remodeling projects. With comprehensive how-to content and expertly moderated community forums DoItYourself.com makes it easy to tackle even the most complex home improvement projects.View Full Version : First timer-cabinet stripping problem
bsmith6356
05-17-09, 09:03 PM
Hi-
We are in the middle of a remodel and my wife has become a stripper (heh heh). She's stripping the cabinets (I think they are made from birch plywood), and ran into a problem today. The product we're using is from Lowes, made by Savogran...it's called Superstrip.
I have two questions:
1. Last weekend she started, and it went well. She put it on liberally, waited 15 minutes and scraped with a plastic scraper. It came off nicely.
She started again today on a different area, and used the same method. For some reason, hardly ANY stain/varnish came off. Tried a second coat, same problem. She shook the can well before using. We thought maybe it was the weather, it's definitely cooler and sprinkling outside. She decided to try a few cabinets doors, one stripped nicely, two did not....which sort of rules out the weather being an issue. The strange thing is, the cabinet door that stripped nicely is one that was previously attached next to the area that didn't strip today. (By the way, the wood or stained finish doesn't look any different from any other area of the kitchen).
Does anyone have any ideas?
2. These cabinets were hand built in the kitchen while the house was being built. The carpenter stained the wood after putting on the trim, as it was apparent when we pulled off the trim (bare wood). Anyway, my question is...should we be able to strip the stained areas down far enough that it will match the unstained areas (under trim)? The reason I ask it that we're making some changes to the layout of the cabinets, and some areas that had trim will not have trim anymore....which means when we stain, there will be an obvious difference between the two areas if we don't get it completely stripped. Is it possible to strip all the way back to the original raw wood? (the original color is maple, we're not yet sure what color we're going to re-stain)
Thanks in advance!
Brent
Charlotte, NC
We are in the middle of a remodel and my wife has become a stripper (heh heh). She's stripping the cabinets (I think they are made from birch plywood), and ran into a problem today. The product we're using is from Lowes, made by Savogran...it's called Superstrip.
I have two questions:
1. Last weekend she started, and it went well. She put it on liberally, waited 15 minutes and scraped with a plastic scraper. It came off nicely.
She started again today on a different area, and used the same method. For some reason, hardly ANY stain/varnish came off. Tried a second coat, same problem. She shook the can well before using. We thought maybe it was the weather, it's definitely cooler and sprinkling outside. She decided to try a few cabinets doors, one stripped nicely, two did not....which sort of rules out the weather being an issue. The strange thing is, the cabinet door that stripped nicely is one that was previously attached next to the area that didn't strip today. (By the way, the wood or stained finish doesn't look any different from any other area of the kitchen).
Does anyone have any ideas?
2. These cabinets were hand built in the kitchen while the house was being built. The carpenter stained the wood after putting on the trim, as it was apparent when we pulled off the trim (bare wood). Anyway, my question is...should we be able to strip the stained areas down far enough that it will match the unstained areas (under trim)? The reason I ask it that we're making some changes to the layout of the cabinets, and some areas that had trim will not have trim anymore....which means when we stain, there will be an obvious difference between the two areas if we don't get it completely stripped. Is it possible to strip all the way back to the original raw wood? (the original color is maple, we're not yet sure what color we're going to re-stain)
Thanks in advance!
Brent
Charlotte, NC
George
05-22-09, 06:39 AM
Brent:
Don' have an answer to the strip/no strip problem.
As far as removing the stain, another stripper by WM Barr, called KWIK, will remove some of the stain, but probably not all. After stripping, you'll need to sand.
Don' have an answer to the strip/no strip problem.
As far as removing the stain, another stripper by WM Barr, called KWIK, will remove some of the stain, but probably not all. After stripping, you'll need to sand.