What on earth caused these circular scratch marks??!! At first I thought maybe they were from someone accidentally bumping the baseboards with a sanding or cleaning machine they were using on the floor, but now I'm finding the same marks on the trim above the doors!!!
Was someone purposely scratching up the woodwork to help adhere the paint or something??!! Has anyone else encountered something like this?? (*boggles*)
Anyway, because the original finish is all so damaged, I'm refinishing the trim the hard way. After I get the paint out of the gouges, I'm removing the original finish with alcohol, sanding down the boards and finishing the wood with garnet dewaxed shellac. I'm very pleased with the results, and I can't wait to someday get the trim back up. :)
(Thanks to Gary and Aaron & Jeannie for all the info about shellac-- I am in LOVE with the stuff, and now I'm considering a few coats of it on the floors, as well).
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I'm gonna take a wild stab. These are obviously machine-made marks and the circles all look to be about the same size. My vote is that some idiot tried to remove the paint with one of those wire brush cup attachments for electric drills. Then he gave up and repainted it. These strippers work pretty well but they're intended for metal, not wood.
I'm gonna revise that. I had marks very similar to these in the woodwork in my old loft. I think they're made by a wire brush attachment for an angle grinder. Painters use them for stripping loose paint off fire escapes and metal surfaces before priming. In the case of my loft, I think they used it to rough up the surface of the woodwork for painting because it had been previously sealed with oil, wax or some other substance which would have prevented the paint from adhering.
Aah-- that's probably it. And I suppose I'll be finding more of the same throughout the house. (*dreads having to sand out the same sort of scratches on all the exposed beams in the living room ceiling*).
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