Peel Away My new BFF

Peel AWAY is my new BFF.

All the other strippers just make me mad.

They make the hairs in my nose burn.

They make me want to pull out all the trim in this old house and drag it to the curb.

Special thanks go to Westview Bungalow for the tip on where to find this gem of a chemical that strips through 99,000 layers of mulit-colored paint overnight in a single sweep. I looked everywhere in my small town and thought I would have to take a trip to the city to find the stuff.

However, Steffi suggested to look for Peel Away at Sherwin Williams. And our local SW store had it. Hidden. On a bottom shelf. Under a 1/4" of dust. They also did not know too much about it and tried to sell me some type of fabric to go with it????? I pulled up the Westview Bungalow web site on my handy Google phone to show them what the paper backing looked like.

(Hint.....The paper backing was in the tub of Peel Away.) Other than that bit of drama, all went well.

You can see Here.... and Here.... that the Westview Bungalow-ians are expert strippers.

Sorry, no pictures yet. I was too busy keeping toxic chemicals off the floor, off the dog, off my jeans, and out of my hair to attempt to take a picture.

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In other news......

We've been busy working in the yard, trying to battle the Kudzu before it begins its summer sprint.

Also...we have company coming next week. YAY!

The Beat up, Cracked, Nasty trim....

I've been trying to scrape off more paint lately.....
At this rate.... 2020 may be the date I actually finish.


I did make it down to the bare wood on a couple of boards.



Only to find many holes.....




cracks...



and the fact that the white -ish paint has embedded itself in the grain of the wood.





The first 6-8 layers of paint are not so difficult to remove...The last two...they are.....
well.......

Stubborn....would be the nice word to use.

Yesterday, something strange fell from the sky...........
Was it???? YES!!! it was RAIN....
There hasn't been much of that around here this whole year. Thanks to the hurricane that hit TX, we had rain!!!!



But the best part was, the trim got wet. I had left it out and a wonderful surprise, the paint was falling off!!! Who would have thought by just letting the trim get wet. The at least 7 layers of paint just was falling off with a little help from my favorite tool as shown in the pic. ( I think it is called a 5 in one or something like that. ) As you can see, mine is well worn.