Interior Doors- Paint Stripper

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Do you plan to do this yourself? I've never stripped from brick but I have quite a bit from furniture and doors. It's quite messy and extremely smelly if you use liquid paint remover, which has the consistency of watery jelly until it dries. Ideally, you should've stripped the bricks before refinishing the floors, because you must take great care not to get any of the paint remover on your new floors. Newspaper is not enough of a barrier.

As for the correctness of the doors, I suggest looking through books with photographs of homes from that era. FWIW I owned a home that was built in 1903 and had four-panel doors -- two over two.

Do you plan to have the doors made or use salvaged pieces? For salvage I very much like Olde Good Things, which has several stores in the city as well as a huge warehouse in PA. They'd be able to find you some salvaged doors that would be appropriate. Another good salvage resource is Demo Depot uptown.

Yes, you should have stripped before refinishing the floors. But it should still be doable. Are you doing it yourself or looking for references for a contractor?

I plan to strip the bricks on my own and realize the bricks should have been done first!! I will be placing two layers or 7 mil plastic on the floor and only doing a 5-6 foot wide section at a time.

I assume you'll be testing the 7-mil plastic first with a dab of the paint stripper to make sure it doesn't eat through the plastic? I once got some paint stripper on my tennis shoes when I was using it and it ate through that.

I have found an "all natural paint tripper" for the brick!!! Not sure if it will work, but i will report back.

We have choosen 5 panel solid core doors, seems like these could have been in the apartment at the time of construction 100 years ago. Since there are only 5 needed we are spending the extra money for the 1.75" solid, as opposed to the 1.375 hollow core.

We also found brushed nickel antique "looking" knobs manufactured by Baldwin. We know that glass and brass knobs were probalby original 100 years ago, but when we priced them they were more expensive than the doors!!!

We also thought about salvage doors, but since our door frames are metal and beat up, we are installing new.