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.

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.

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.

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.