Has anyone had any luck with any paint stripping products?
The woodwork in this house is beautiful, but there are many coats of paint. I would like to salvage it if I can. Some of it does have lead paint.
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YES! We had the best luck with Zinsser, spray on stripper (in a metal jug). It was too thick to spray though, so we brushed it on, which was faster anyway. Through trial and error we found that the key to getting lots of layers off at once was brushing it on thick and giving it time to work, then scrape away.
ReplyDeleteRemoving paint took a LOT more stripper and WAY more time that I ever thought possible.
I don't know anything about the proper way to handle lead paint though, other than knowing you don't want to sand it.
Good luck!
I favor going over it first with the ECG brand heat gun: http://www.nteinc.com/ecgproducts/pdf/heat_guns.pdf
ReplyDeletefollowed by Howard's Western Wood Doctor Refinisher: http://www.westernwooddoctor.com/refinisher.htm.
Leaves the wood smooth and clean with little or no sanding needed.
You probably should use a mask when tackling the pieces with lead paint on them. I was almost through with my stripping campaign when I discovered that no, all the paint was not applied after 1981 . . .
Check with the folks at Casa Decrepit. I don't have any experience with paint removal, but they had a bunch of original trim buried in multiple layers of paint, and used some product that did a nice job.
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