Finishing Up Built-in Door Stripping

Getting closer to installing the 2 large built-in doors as I keep plugging away at the last door. For this pass, I do a few final passes with a dental pick to scrape out the remaining CitriStrip residue. After the residue is out I do another wipe down but instead of using TSP I use linseed oil soap. This gets the wood pretty much cleaned up. After it dries I do a series of sanding with 150/220/320/440 sandpapers.

Cleaning out the last remaining residue.

After the soap, I wipe the door down with turpentine and then after that dries, I go with a coat of boiled linseed oil mixed with turpentine at 50-50 ratio. When that coat dries I then go with a coat of pure boiled linseed oil. This will dry for a few days and then I’ll do one more coat of linseed oil before I start applying the stain.

Starting to apply the boiled linseed oil.

Both doors with boiled linseed oil applied.

Because the linseed oil takes some days to cure, there’s nothing else to do with the door so I take care of some outside work around the cottage. The cottage still has vinyl siding so I do a wash down of the exterior to remove any algae that has built up. I also resume pine-tarring the deck that holds the mechanicals. I did some of the deck last year so I keep applying pine tar to the rest of the deck before I run out of pine tar. For the pine tar, I mix it 50-50 with purified linseed oil.

Weathered wood before applying pine tar.

Applying pine tar.

Also applied another coat of pine tar to the planters.

Back in the house, it’s more work with stripping the calcimine from the bedroom plaster. Still using a mix of TSP and dish detergent with Brillo pads to strip off the calcimine along with a scraper.

Almost clean walls.

More cleaning of walls.