Recent content by xpabu

Excellent, thanks. Think we'll be living with the difference! Your help is appreciated. I'll let you know how I get on.

Thanks for the opinions, much appreciated. Just need to convince the wife now, but I think I know what she's going to say...

Thanks; yeah, that was a concern and I know that period woodwork was generally painted but actually the joints and timber are actually decent.

Hi--does anyone have any suggestions?

Hi, here are some photos--they don't show the orangey/pink colour as bad as it is but gives a hint at it. I've also included a photo of the unstripped door downstairs that I found.

Hi Thanks for the replies everyone. I've not waxed the doors yet (just a couple of small samples). The doors and architraves I believe are original (1904), they were both covered with many layers of white paint. I'll post some photos later. I was thinking it may be primer or similar; I've had a...

Hi I'm very new to woodworking but keen to learn more -- we've got some recently stripped doors and architraves (both pine) which I'd like to finish myself. The guys who stripped them for us used dichloromethane on the architraves (which have come up a sort of 'raw' but greenish stripped pine...