Painting an old home

[Blueberry]

Since this website is not responding perhaps you'll provide the gist of this?

Link works for me. Headline is something along the lines of home test kits unreliable.

[ny biker]

So, I put the same question out on our neighborhood yahoo group (the whole neighborhood consists of garden-style condos and townhouses that were built in the '40s and renovated in the '70s when it all went condo) to find out about others' experience. So far I'm being told it's easier and less expensive to replace the trim. One person wound up removing something like 7 layers of paint, and she said it didn't really look good when she was done.

It's easy enough to replace the mouldings around the base of the walls, but looking at the trim around the doors, it all appears to be part of of the door frame, rather than just being attached to the wall around the doors. I fear this could get complicated.

I already have bought new hinges for all the doors, to replace the nasty rusted crooked painted hinges that are already there. So now I guess I need to figure out if I'm replacing all the frames or just the trim around them.

[bmccasland]

Seems to me, it's easier to just replace the trim around the doors. If you replace the frames, won't you have to re-hang the doors, which could be a PITA (unless they're crooked and you want them straight).

Trim comes pre-primed which will help with the painting.

[ny biker]

Seems to me, it's easier to just replace the trim around the doors. If you replace the frames, won't you have to re-hang the doors, which could be a PITA (unless they're crooked and you want them straight).

Trim comes pre-primed which will help with the painting.

But when I look at it, it appears the trim is part of the frame, so I don't know if it can be replaced without replacing the whole frame.

Either way, the doors are coming off so the hinges can be replaced. Some of the doors are crooked, and I don't know how much work it will be to fix that. I haven't called the handyman in to look at it yet.