Second Pocket Door: Work Begins

We moved the second pocket door down to the basement recently. We have a lot of doors stored down here already, but with our recent basement reorg… we’ve got a lot more room to work with.

First step is to strip the paint from the door.

An interesting point of comparison: here’s what the doors looked like, originally.

Close up of the stripper doing its thing: the yellow/light areas are the paint coming loose from the wood.

This sits for about 12+ hours, and then needs to get removed at some point tomorrow. It’s interesting to imagine both pocket doors being “done,” and eventually getting reinstalled upstairs.

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