Question about Refinishing old bedroom doors
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Andrea Jahn
So I've been stripping paint of an old bedroom door and found a layer of something that looked like wood but scrapped right off. We think it might have been some kind of wallpaper but we arnt sure. Anyways there's a greyish white later on top of the real wood and I'm not sure what it is but it's really hard to get off. We think it might be a later of glue that held on the fake food but we've tried paint stripper and sanding and we are still having a hard time. Any advice?
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Could you post a photo. The only thing I can assume is that the door is made out of some secondary wood. The grayish white is a resin panel that a woodgrain print was bonded to and the panel bonded to the wood door. the stripper you used removed the paint and the print off the panel. Many cheap doors either had a woodgrain paper or photographic film bonded to them. Can't really tell with out a photo or few.
Sounds like your door had a veneer over it and what's left is the contact cement used to adhere it. U might want to try a product called Klean-Strip. Here's a link! http://www.homedepot.com/p/Klean-Strip-128-oz-Adhesive-Remover-GKAS94325/100271088
Good luck and hope this helps!!