Timeline for What's the fastest way to strip paint off of a piece of installed trim/moulding?
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| Jan 22, 2011 at 16:28 | vote | accept | jlpp | ||
| Aug 24, 2010 at 20:09 | comment | added | ChrisF♦ | @Joe - this is only my experience, but with the chemicals the public can buy you have to paint it on, leave it for a while and then strip it off and then repeat if you've got a lot of layers. Yes, heat guns are easy for flat surface, but I can get into the valleys of mouldings quite easily - just use the corner of the scraper or a screwdriver. | |
| Aug 24, 2010 at 19:48 | comment | added | Joe | I'm confused as to how a heat gun is faster than chemicals -- my experience with heat guns is that they're fine for flat surfaces, but start to have problems when you have any sort of relief, as you have to scrape into things, and might have diferent thicknesses of paint in different areas which causes problems. (but then, maybe I was doing it wrong) | |
| Aug 24, 2010 at 13:40 | history | answered | ChrisF♦ | CC BY-SA 2.5 |