Skirting boards - advice!

[Suhari]

Redecorating. The skirting boards are covered in about 30 years of chipped, repainted (badly) **** paint. Want to get them back to wood (or as close as I can) and paint with hard-wearing gloss or satin (don't care which - as long as it will last). Would rather strip chemically: heat guns are a pain in the arse.

 

Looking for advice on:

 

Which stripper to use

Which paint to finish with

 

What'd reckon?

[scotty]

If you're completely redecorating, why not just replace them and varnish the new ones? Probably easier than farting around stripping the old ones.

[BadgerBadger]

Nitromors will do it but it'll be a messy and laborios job, you could get a bad ass belt sander and give them a good sanding until they're flat and even and then paint or replace the lot with new stuff which is a faily simple job.

[Saint-scooby]

I own a bad ass belt sander, I also own a 2 large random orbital sanders . Hard work sanding but when finished looks quite nice.

Not sure about the paint

[The Kraken]

If you're completely redecorating, why not just replace them and varnish the new ones? Probably easier than farting around stripping the old ones.

That. You can get some decent looking boards for all styles and once painted you'll not know the difference to olden ones. Bugger going to all that effort to strip them down.

[Smirking_Saint]

You can use chemical stripper, I used it on my knowel sp? (Banister) but it can sometimes stain so I had to go over it with a sander anyway. Sanding aswell is a pain in the ringpiece, Id only do it if I needed to (doors, alcatroves etc) but skirting boards ?

 

Nah, if your redecorating just get the old ones of and buy some new ones, theres a big range these days, even the cheaper ones are decent but you get get some v nice ones from the more expensive establishments.

 

Obviously you may need to re-plaster or patch up

[Suhari]

You can use chemical stripper, I used it on my knowel sp? (Banister) but it can sometimes stain so I had to go over it with a sander anyway. Sanding aswell is a pain in the ringpiece, Id only do it if I needed to (doors, alcatroves etc) but skirting boards ?

 

Nah, if your redecorating just get the old ones of and buy some new ones, theres a big range these days, even the cheaper ones are decent but you get get some v nice ones from the more expensive establishments.

 

Obviously you may need to re-plaster or patch up

 

Thats the thing - don't want to arse about replastering. Going to repaint the door surrounds as well; will have a Look tomorrow on how easy they might come off....