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  • Yep, fairly soon after I started I stopped feeling quite so manly & realized I had made a terrible mistake... I did another section with paint/varnish remover which took ages to work, stunk the house out & left a sticky mess which needed sanding off anyway which was also not pleasant, and another bit which I attempted using a small sander I found up the loft (I don't have a sander) which was just as bad, as it was a piece of shit that barely worked - probably why the previous occupiers left it up the loft.

    The manual approach with a big sanding block & the roughest skin-ripping sandpaper you can find is quite satisfying for 5 or so minutes though.

    Oh, I tried a heat gun too - this worked well if you had the patience to do 2cm squared at a time, very carefully... ended up with numerous scorch marks that had to be sanded anyway...

  • If anyone is wondering the proper method for removal is shaving the wood with a card scraper

    Then a fuck off big orbital sander

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