Yesterday we got down on the floor and got dirty. (Cue Mike Rowe...)
In our quest to clean all the paint splatter off the bedroom floor, we smeared on some eco-friendly paint stripper. It's gooey orange stuff, like spreading a smoothie all over the floor. You let it sit for a few hours, then scrape off the cruddy residue. The stuff works surprisingly well, but it's still a lot of manual labor. Kneeling on a hardwood floor scraping off goo gets old after about... four minutes.
Still, we've got to admit that the floor looks a whole lot better than when we started. It's not there yet -- we've still got the sanding, staining, and polishing ahead -- but it's beginning to look like a real hardwood floor again. I will forever associate the smell of orange peels with remodeling.
Initial evidence suggests the other floors in the house aren't paint-splattered like this one. Let's hope.
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