Stripping Flaky Coating Off a Door Casing
Flaked or peeling coating on a door casing looks bad and can scatter debris across the floor that later has to be swept up. Whether the casing is interior or exterior, the approach for taking off the loose coating is the same.
By Parker Green5 steps
Peeling paint
Flaked or peeling coating on a door casing is unpleasant to look at and can scatter debris across the floor that later has to be swept up. The casing may be an interior one or an exterior one, and either way the approach for taking off the loose coating is the same.
Step 1
Decide which style of paint scraper to buy. A straight blade gives you finer control when working in awkward, detailed spots, whereas a bent blade lets you apply more pressure, which means more coating comes off in a shorter period.
Step 2
Start scraping from the upper part of the door casing and move downward. Scrapers pull the coating off the casing directly, and once you begin working a given section, most of it will come away.
Step 3
Keep scraping the casing until you have removed as much coating as possible. Certain spots will resist scraping; hold off on those until the following step.
Step 4
Sand the remaining parts of the casing to take off any coating that is still peeling. Coarser grit — 40 or 60 grit at the most — takes off more coating. The drawback is that coarser sandpaper will also roughen the door casing itself, so pick a grit that clears the coating without marring the casing.
Step 5
Use the hose attachment on your vacuum to clean the surrounding area and the door casing, clearing away all loose flakes and dust; the hose attachment is what collects the bigger flaked pieces.
