Win a HomeRight Heat Gun
I partnered with HomeRight on this post.
Think of this as an early Christmas present from my friends at HomeRight! That’s right, today you have a chance to enter to win a HomeRight Digital Temperature Heat Gun! This tool is amazing and it can do sooooooo much. I’ll get to the giveaway in second but first I want to share how I used my heat gun.
Last month, HomeRight sent me one to try out and I LOVED it. I had two projects in mind and some of you may have seen one of them on Instagram.
The first project was our front door. I’m super happy with the color of the door on the outside – a coastal blue we did when we first moved into the house. This photo was taken in the summer.
BUT I wasn’t happy with the color inside….
The door had been painted. The original wood door.
Cue Nicole Curtis, “Why in the hell would you cover that up?”
I’m not sure if this bothered anyone else around here but every time I looked at the door my heart sank. To my eye it looked weird. A painted door with dark wood all around it and creamy Muslin walls. Hmmmm.
The first thing I did with my HomeRight Heat Gun is take it outside along with this very heavy door. Just so you know the door weighs more than me. Luke and I carried it out and set it on saw horses. The heat gun worked great.
It took a bit longer than I thought to strip it but I think it is because I originally had it set at 300 when I turned it up to 510 degrees the paint started coming off in sheets. I used the scraper tool that came with the heat gun to scrape and I loved that it wasn’t as messy as a chemical stripper. I did use Citrastrip on the inside molding on the panels as I didn’t want to damage the wood with the scraper.
I actually had this door outside a few times – to strip with the heat gun, to use the stripper and then to sand it to prep for the stain. Many neighbors stopped by to see what I was doing with my door. Ha! Ha! I think they all thought I was crazy.
I just stained it this week. I used General Finishes Gel Stain in Antique Walnut and then realized it was a little darker than I thought so once dry, I wiped on their Brown Mahongany Gel Stain which has red undertones.
This was the one! Once dry, I wiped on Minwax wipe on poly and voila: the door looks like it never was painted. The look I wanted!
The knob really looks lovely against the deep stain. Here’s a look of the before and after:
This wasn’t the only DIY we did with the Heat Gun. I don’t know about your house, but there’s always lots of little jobs and things that need fixing around here, especially with little boys.
Well, Conor was having a playdate and was running around outside playing ninja, knights and blindfolded tag. I was inside and thought I heard glass breaking.
Hmmm. What was that sound? I went to the basement thinking a light had blown but I didn’t see anything.
Then, I felt the cool breeze and saw the shattered glass of the basement window.
“Conor Daniel!” I went running out and scolded him and wanted to know how / why he broke the window? I couldn’t figure out how a nerf arrow could do it.
I found out it wasn’t anything nerf but his knight’s sword. He was spinning around and threw the sword and it shattered the window.
He looks sorry doesn’t he?!?
The HomeRight Heat Gun to the rescue!!!! We were able to remove the existing putting from the window using the heat gun, got new glass from the hardware store and reglazed and now the window is as good as new.
You’d never know that Sir Conor slayed it!
It feels so good to be ticking house jobs off the list. 🙂 Sometimes it takes longer than you think to do the little things but it is so gratifying when you get them done. What do you want to tick of your list?
The heat gun has so many uses – I also plan on using it to crackle paint on a cabinet. Excited to try this. It can also remove labels, bend PVC pipes, shrink wrap materials the list goes on and on.
So I’m so exited because you guys have the chance to have one of your very own!
Here are the details:
All you need to do is leave a comment and follow the promps by rafflecopter.
A huge thank you to my friends at HomeRight for working with me on this post.
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oh i have been wanting one!! i would use it to remove paint from furniture projects!
Wow, I love the door! I have stained doors and woodwork….it just looks so pretty but not as gorgeous as yours! I may need to get glass knobs! What a great tool!
I would use it to strip some furniture I have waiting for me!
Besides furniture waiting in my garage, I have some old shutters (louvered) that would be the perfect candidate for the Home Right Heat Gun.
I would love to win this for my husband for Christmas. Then he can do all of the “honey-do’s”, lol!
We also have a front door with several coats of paint that are now peeling. We think maybe the base coat is oil-based with latex coats over it? Anywhoo the paint just won’t come off. I’ll bet this heat gun would solve how to remove all the old layers of paint!
The heat gun looks like it is a handy tool to have around the house.
I could really use one of these tools for my furniture refabs. Would make life so much easier than using tons of stripper!
I just picked up a dresser that I would like to paint or stain, depending what I find under the layers and layers of orange paint. This would be great to remove it without using all that nasty stripper.
Oh I could really use one of these …yes your right this is an amazing tool!
I like to find old pieces of furniture at yard sales and even on trash day. I would use the heat gun to strip them and turn them into something new. I would also use it for some PVC projects that require heating the pipe to shape and expand it. A hair dryer just doesn’t work as well.
I would use it on a couple of old doors and windows frames that have years of paint build up.
I would love to win this for my husband! He is such a good sport about all of my “projects”! Always trying to make things work! This would help so much!!
If I win, I will strip the icky varnish off my kitchen table!
Second try: I would strip the icky varnish off my kitchen table!
This would do wonders for all the projects I have in mind for the house I just bought!!!!
Your door looks great! I need to do the same thing to my front door, and ALL my old wood windows need re-glazing, which I dread. I never heard of this product and it sounds perfect for these jobs. Thanks for the chance to win one!
I have a tobacco cabinet that needs new finish.
I have been wanting one of these for SO long….and I think your door looks great. Nice job!
Whoops, I commented before I read what I’m supposed to comment about! I have an old sewing machine stool from the mid 1950’s that had been spray painted and recovered sometime in the 1980’s. The original finish is a blonde/light wood and the paint is a not-very-pretty yellowish green. I would remove the paint with the heat gun, refinish it in a natural tone, and then recover the seating. And use it in my entry way to sit on while putting on and taking off shoes and boots.
I would use it to get layers of paint off of furniture I have. Thanks for the chance!
I would use the HomeRight Heat Gun to help remove a DIY Gone Wrong project. I attended a Decoupage class and the chair did not turn out as I wished. I love the chair, but can’t get the Mod Podge off. oy vey, do I need this HomeRight Heat Gun!
Thank you for the opportunity!
I like the idea of using this on plexiglas
I have some paint that needs striping
i have some old windows that i would love to strip and redo….
Would love to own one of these. Just got out my old blow dryer to remove some veneer off a vanity. I bet this would be much more efficient. Love your blog.
I have am re-purposing many of my mom’s kitchen pieces to put in my kitchen, this would help extremely! TY for the chance!
I would use it for a lot of things we are still in the process of remodeling our home.
I would use it to remove the boring backsplash in my kitchen. It would be so much easier than a hammer!
Oh, I have lots of house projects, this would come in handy for! Including a broken basement window!
I have an antique large desk that need to be stripped. This certainly would make the jog much easier. Love your home.
Absolutely beautiful job! I have a few doors and windows that I’d love to do, myself!
Thanks for sharing.
I had the same comment with our front door, when my young children and I moved into an old folk farm house. It has so much detail work and such a beautiful door. It had SIX coats of paint, including BLACK!!
The door has been a labor of love and still working on it. This heat gun would really be an awesome tool to bring the front door back to it’s original state.
Thank you!
I have same doors. Same knob. House a little bit not much older.
In other words, this heat gun really wants to come to mama!
Thanks for giving me a hope and directions for ” the door”. In my case,,bathroom!
The door looks a thousand times better. And I love the exterior of your home, the blue with the shakes, perfect! Anyway, would love the heat gun. Have many projects lined up that would benefit from the HomeRight Heat Gun, starting with my dining room table. Thanks for the opportunity!
I sincerely it doesn’t happen, but if our pipes freeze this winter, I bet this would help get the thaw started.
I took early retirement in January of this year. I have many changes that I am nervously trying to do to my house. I really NEED one of these. OMG!!! I would be soooo thrilled if I had a heat gun!
I have been stripping away the paint on all my doors it has been very time consuming and difficult .would love to have a heat gun. It would really help. I live in a 65 year old house and it is trimmed in mahogany. And a lot has been painted up to 5 layers.
Living as a single grandmother in a home built in 1942, previous owners have “updated” everything (a.k.a. Painted) and I would so love to restore this home to it’s original charm and beauty. I believe a home RESTORED is much more beautiful than one “updated and remodeled.” What you have done to your door by peeling away the layers of paint with this incredible heat gun reaffirms my faith in restoring! You have done an amazing job and I know that for brevity’ sake you did not mention the labor intensive work of love, a lot of sweat, and aching… Read more »
I have been refinishing garage sale finds for my daughters first house. This would speed up the process tremendously. Your front door looks awesome!
This heat gun would be great to remove paint from an old china cabinet that I have been wanting to redo.
I have SO many projects waiting to be done! First on my agenda is stripping and refinishing my in-law’s bedroom set which is 60+ years old. I tried refinishing my pine dining room table awhile back and made a terrible mess of it and it’s been waiting patiently for me to right my wrongs:-) Next but definitely not last on my project list is a chest of drawers that I plan to DIY and hopefully sell. I could go on and on, but you can see that I’m in desperate need of the HomeRight Heat Gun to help me accomplish… Read more »
I bought a 1910 colonial. All the woodwork has been painted white. And the doors. I am 61 years old and any help I could get to be able to bring the house back to it’s beautiful self I would appreciate.
What a FABULOUS job on the door!!! The HomeRight Heat Gun is amazing! Seeing the results on your door makes me want one of these, so bad! I have osteoarthritis, so all of my home projects take me FOREVER to complete, because I tire easily once the pain kicks in. The HomeRight Heat Gun would make all of my refinishing projects so much easier…so crossing my fingers 🙂
I live in a farm house build in 1930…I have many of the same wood beauties as you, but someone has painted all the interior doors…I would like to strip them and restore them to their former beauty!
I am new to the DIY world! This is my first 4 weeks, and I decided to redo my son’t room. I got the HomeRight EZ Roller(wow…why did I do it any other way?), I upholstered a chair for him, redid a cabinet and painted it with a HomeRight painter (love it), picked up a couple of old wooden doors and I wasn’t sure until this article what I would do with it…but I have been inspired and would use the heat gun to get all of those layers of paint off…and make a utilitarian/decorative piece (shelves, hooks, mirror) out… Read more »
I would strip down the original 1954 Craftsman doors in my home. They have been painted so many times before we moved in and they stick. I would use the heat gun to strip the paint off and stain them.
This would be a great chemical free way to strip paint. It would save me money and be good for the Environment
I would love to win the heat gun. I work on furniture a good bit
I would love to have a heat gun.