ok so i have decided to use paint and varnish remover to take off the color of my wood vanity and re stain it. is it easy to chemicalyy take of te old stain? i bought the bottle from home depot today and ppl who work there told me it was easy but i just wanted to know if any of yu has ever done it before?
No it's not easy. You're still going to have to get all the old finish out of the nooks and crannies, and sand it.
I have seen many projects where people have bought wood stripper. And they all look the same ...unfinished. What you see on TV is not quite what happens in real life. Oh sure it works good on flat surfaces.But almost all wood projects have corners and nooks and crannies. This places are hard to get to and have excess paint in them making it harder to remove it all.I do believe in most of the commercials I have seen on TV I would swear the piece of wood they were stripping had just been freshly varnished then painted which makes the paint come off even easier since the surface is new with no scratches or dents for the paint to sink into which also makes it time consuming and difficult to remove. Good luck and don't feel bad if you give up like everyone else and paint your project half way through.
