Hey Pox
 

My mom called me at 9:00 pm on the 3rd to tell me that she rented a scaffold from Home Depot ( not sure why cause I have been building scaffolds for 11 years) cause she is remoldeling and going with a lighter color and her scaffold is too shaky. Any way I go over there and the scaffold is fine but she has these beams on her ceiling that she is sanding and restaining. These things seem to be just 1x6s nailed together but I am not sure how they are supported. I sanded on these things for hours for her and I have come to the conclusion that it may be easier to take them down and do it on the ground. They have to be sanded and restained. What do you think? I told her that I would be back tomorrow to sand some more. You can see the color of the new paneling she is putting up and the color of the beams that she is wanting to match. The house is 40 years old so that old stain has been on there that long.

just rerap them things, or you could take a mini prybar and get them apart one board at a time if your are realy careful. They rap a 2x4 or somthing like that cause it is cheaper then solid beam

Yep they use 2x4 blocks n wrap w 1x6 or 1x8 I'd either paint em or wrap em or take em down n sand on the ground just make sure u number the pieces n put in back up in order

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I had same thing when I bought my house I just dressed em up n painted em

man that adds a lot to a ceiling, gona have to do some wood work like that in my next place

Just do that in your shop when you build it.

[QUOTE=1fastmerc;279845]Just do that in your shop when you build it.[/QUOTE

shop gonna have exposed wood beams.....haha

Man my arms are about to fall off!!!!! Some spots have to be done by hand cause the sander won't fit. I couldn't take it apart by myself without damaging it so I'm sanding it up there.

glad its you and not me, need you a Mexican;)

With all the work it takes to sand the old wood.......

I would think taking the old wood off and replacing with new wood would be easier and you would be able to finish it exactly how she wants it to look.