Skirting boards nightmare

[tomaz]

I have decided to take the skirting boards in my lounge back down to wood. Anyway so i start sanding down the door and the first wall that's done except the extreme corners. Then I came to my other skirting boards which have radiator pipes going over the top of them so cant really fit the sander in there for a decent angle. So i bought some paint stripper, wire wool and a heat gun today. Tried the heat gun seems to remove the gloss fine but not the bottom stain so that was waste of money. So I start using paint stripper which got the gloss off and is sort of getting the stain off but the actual wood still has a lot of stain colouring.

I've wasted most of my weekend messing about with this. I'm on the brink of just undercoating and glossing it. The clearance from floor to pipes is 10 cm with the carpet up. I would like to do this whilst the carpet is down so clearance is a little less than 10cm. Half the job has these poxy pipes above the skirting boards. Is there any power tool small enough that I can get down in that clearance. Id prefer to sand it down as painstakingly slow as it is at least at the start of the job I was getting some where, last image, first and second image is how far i got with paint stripper however don't want to use this method as its extremely messy. Can anyone recommend a tool that can help with sanding down within the size above?

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[Chri5]

Sand paper 80g on a wood block and elbow grease.

You could go for a belt sander / sanding file. The trade quality ones are dear.

Maybe this sort of DIY item would "just about" be ok

http://www.buyaparcel.com/p/black-d...tool-222248/?gclid=COH2yKKevsQCFWTItAodk0wAyQ

 

[tomaz]

Im going to rent and try a delta sander i think that may do it.

 

[tomaz]

The sanding pads velcro type keep coming off the sander so i give up now and am not going to bother.