I’m using doors, windows, trim, and flooring from my grandmother’s house (which is now abandoned). This is the door for the powder room, which is a pocket door.
Since the doors are shellacked, I merely wiped down the door and added a couple of new coats of shellack and it looks wonderful.
Then I installed it (definitely a two person job) and discovered that the effing builder had used drywall screws too long for the pocket space, such that when the door slid into the pocket it was scratched by the screws.
This is a 100 year old door, in mint condition. It survived 100 years of use in a family of 5 and my builder scars it with his effing malicious idiocy.
So, I had to dig out the screws from the already taped/mudded drywall and replace them with shorter screws.
What an effing idiot.