Cabinet Stripping

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Baton Rouge

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Don't know of any places in B.R. but from your post you are saying cypress cabinet doors. Something that small would be easy to do with a liquid stripped bought at Home Depot and pick up a couple stiff nylon scrub brushes and some plastic scrapers to remove it.

Simply follow the directions on the can of stripper and it really isn't all that hard.

You will have to neutralize the stripper when the job is done by wiping the wood down several times with rags dampened with water to remove any residual stripper. Then let it dry thoroughly before sanding to even the grain out.

Commercial strippers will dip the doors in vats of chemicals and likely use high pressure nozzles to remove the finish and when you get them back they are rough as shite and need a lot of sanding to get back to finish grade.

I've stripped, and finished several sets of cabinets over the years of owning and renovating houses and the first thing I do is take all the doors off, mark them so they go back on the correct cabinet, remove all the hardware and get to stripping them.

Frames are easy, but messy since the stripper tends to run and drip a bit, but putting down plastic drops really help with containing the mess.

As you are finding out, there are no real shortcuts, just a lot of messy, tedious work to get the job done, and done right.

You're halfway there by the sound of it. At least it's cool and not summertime with lots of heat and humidity to deal with.

I agree with everything you said and I appreciate the encouragement. I think since we have the process down, we might just go ahead and knock it out. I might just take the cabinets off so we'll be motivated to start the process.

Use a heat gun. works far better than any paint stripper.

Done it plenty of times with no issues.