ready strip

[pootle26]

hi i am new here so i hope i am posting this in the right section -
apologies if not :o
has anyone come across this product ?

http://www.readystripoutlet.com/site/586339/page/236249

i have seen it advertised in the uk & you can buy it over here , but i do not know anyone who has used it
i would like to strip down some painted doors which we believe are made from oregan (sp)

any help appreciated

pootle26

[durwood]

Hi Pootle26,

Using stripper on timber can be a messy and frustrating business. A house painter would avoid doing so, stripper will soak into the timber and can be hard to get out which means when you try to paint anything onto the wood it gets stripped ( doesn't dry).

Try burning the paint off, if you can get a porta gas torch or an old blow lamp just warm up the paint film. It will probably be enamel so will blister up, the heat won't hurt the timber, it will act as an insulater and unless you give it a real big serve with heat you won't char it. I stripped a weather board house years ago by burning off. cost only two bottles of gas less than a 4 litre of stripper and the house would have taken a few hundred litres to do the whole place.

Do it outside or away from any combustables - blister the paint, scrape it with a scraper and with a bit of practice you will have clean timber ready for a light sand, no stripper to neutralize with water, no raised grain no problems getting the stripper out of the grain.

Use the scraper in the hand you write with or you will find yourself tending to want to help scrape with the torch and you may burn your hand. The paint usually turns to ash and rarely keeps burning but every paint is different so you won't know till you try.

Stripper leaves you with a soggy wet lump of paint which you need to dump somewhere safely, the dry burnt paint residue you can easily sweep up into a bin.

Hope that is of some use to you.

PS this process is for wood only, its useless on metal unless you heat the metal red hot as it absorbs the heat - as in burning a car to to the ground, stripper is the preferred method for metal

[maglite]

I will lay even money that most doors in your place are jarrah veneer that have been painted.........what am i bid?

[pootle26]

I will lay even money that most doors in your place are jarrah veneer that have been painted.........what am i bid?

is that bad? :(

new to oz so have no idea of wood used - going on the say so of a builder :eek:
scary i know!! (tee hee)



pootle26