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Thanks, will have a look re squeeks
What paint will you use?
uurm, green paint I think...though in seriousness I have no idea, I'll get to that much later (or my GF will get impatient and just buy something because she likes the colour and insist we use it)
HeyHey-
Just for surface stuff, not structural, this is worth a watch: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=46vpG9arDAM
He just uses a carbide scraper to remove the paint, and the finish ends up pretty good in the end
His other videos on plaster casting new moulds are also great if you’re into that sort of thing
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Did ours last year and the heat gun and a scraper was far superior to any kind of paint stripper. Which I have generally found to be fairly ineffective. They probably used to work better when manufacturers were allowed to used toxic chemicals.
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Psy
when the carpet is up spend some time working to get rid of or improve any squeaks.it is so worth it. the painted bit and the bits under the runner could have some extra screws sent through them to tighten things up without being visible when the job is done. We made a dumb mistake when we did ours, we used some floor filler to fill but used brown filler because wood is brown and that was what was abundant not white filler because the paint was going to be white(ish). Now cracks in the paint show up more than they would have done. What paint will you use? If doing a woven runner consider putting the staples in long ways down not across ways