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Can anyone recommend a good sander for door frames/skirting boards?
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I'm having new carpets fitted this Friday, and over the weekend I suddenly had a daft idea to strip off old gloss paint from all the door frames and skirting boards so I could varnish them!
So I used a heat paint stripper thinking that'll do.. but it looks awful.. so I tried to sand it down with my standard 'Orbital Sander' but it's useless!!
I need to get 7 door frames and a whole load of skirting boards sanded down, varnished and dried by Thursday evening!!
So.. can anyone recommend a decent sander that will get the job finished quickly and look good too? type? or do I need a miracle?!
So I used a heat paint stripper thinking that'll do.. but it looks awful.. so I tried to sand it down with my standard 'Orbital Sander' but it's useless!!
I need to get 7 door frames and a whole load of skirting boards sanded down, varnished and dried by Thursday evening!!
So.. can anyone recommend a decent sander that will get the job finished quickly and look good too? type? or do I need a miracle?!
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Something like this
Even do a less mess version : http://www.diytools.co.uk/diy/Main/sp-2-10191-82406-polycell-less-mess-paint-stripper-500ml.asp
Yep I've stripped all the paint off, just need to sand it down now, but not sure of the best sander to buy.
I did actually try the paint on stripper first... it wasn't that greta though.. it only did it in parts and all the paint fell down wet on my carpet and wouldn't come up! So I had to go over it with the heat stripper and do the rest of it that way too.
Thanks anyway!
Probably a little belt sander would be most suited, and a bit of elbow grease with some normal sandpaper for any hard to reach bits that the belt sander can't touch.
Something like this.
We have one we bought from Focus a few years ago which has been really paid for itself over the 3 or 4 years we've had it.
Ive got a circular orbital sander which is good on flat surfaces but no good for the skirting boards, and ive got a flat orbital sander that has done a fairly decent job on the skirting boards and door frames.
Ive now got 3 doors left to strip and all the upstairs landing skirting and door frames. It does look really nice but its messy and it takes forever.
Im going to get one of those detail sanders cause im spending a fortune on paint stripper.