Citristrip On Floors

Brush it out with a chip brush.

Citristrip on floors.

Step 5 clean up. You really should buy a small bottle of the citristrip and do a test patch. Our method for stripping and buffing hardwood floors to refinish them. On projects where a water based product will be used we recommend.

Every floor is different and some really old finishes come right off without so much of a whimper. Rub the steel wool and citristrip into the wood grain like applying wax to a car and you ll get the wood clean of almost all paint residue making it ready for a varnished finish. I left it there for anywhere from 30 minutes to a few hours depending on how badly spotted the. However mineral spirits is not compatible with water based products.

Mineral spirits is recommended after the stripping solution because it s important to break down those waxes before getting started. The instructions say to put the citristrip in a metal bowl and use it from there. Even if you wanted to paint the floor not a bad idea it s always best to get down to the bare wood so that the paint primer can really stick to the wood. Bear in mind that if this material touches you it will burn in less than a minute.

Wash the area affected immediately with soap and water. You can use 00 or 000 steel wool dipped in citristrip to help clean the old primer out of the wood grain. If you re stripping a flat surface it s an unnecessary and wasteful step i just squeeze it right from the jug onto the floor.