Removing Exterior Paint

snips86x

snips86x

snips86x

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Our front door is recessed and has 2 enclosed walls and a roof. The previous owners appear to have painted a non-breathable paint on these 2 walls which is causing a really annoying damp issue in my son's bedroom.

We've looked at sandblasting the walls to remove the pain, but the cost is too high as well as not knowing if the brick work would survive. We're now looking for some kind of alternative. This is starting to get really annoying as it's slowly damaging our solid oak flooring.

Is there a paint remover for this kind of thing?

Any help/suggestion would be gratefully appriciated
 
I used a heat gun on our painted sandstone sills and lintels
I also had to use Nitromors and a pressure washer to remove linseed oil that a dodgy builder had put on so thick that 12 months later it was still tacky
 
Burning it off with a heatgun and a wire brush would be the quicker option than using nitromors. Would still be pretty time consuming though. If you could get it done while the door is removed, this would prevent the door from being burned or scorched.
 
I have a Nilfisk Pressure washer cost £75 from Screwfix,& I bought a Nilfisk Water Sand Blaster kit cost me £43, & uses ordinary dry grit sand about £1.75p a bag from Wickes, cleaned sandstone wall superbly, totally remove all the paint & algae.

You could hire a industrial hot / cold water pressure washer for a weekend, which should remove the paint, but you might need to add to that a wet Grit Blast Kit about £50 for a weekend to use with the pressure washer,you can use Soda crystals ( not so messy with the dust) or sand.

Depend what type of masonry paint is on the wall, pressure washer will remove most,but resin base paint is sometimes a little tougher to remove, a lot depends on the background.
 
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