Removing so much Paint

[Minibiker]

Hi all

We moved into my wife's childhood home a couple of months back and we're in the process of decorating room by room, we're getting a new bathroom fitted within the next 2 or 3 weeks but want to get paint of the walls...

Basically the issue is, her dad painted on top of paint about 3 or 4 times and it's gonna be a pain to get of I imagine, Does anyone have any tips as to making it easier to remove please?

Thanks

 

[ttaskmaster]

Heat gun and scraper.
I would have suggested Nitro Mors, but with the nerfed formula they use these days you'd be better off with something stronger like your creepy uncle's Brut aftershave.

 

[Minibiker]

Heat gun and scraper.
I would have suggested Nitro Mors, but with the nerfed formula they use these days you'd be better off with something stronger like your creepy uncle's Brut aftershave.

I'll see if I can get a heat gun from someone, need to get it stripped pretty soon

 

[Diggsy]

Not sure I’d remove the paint to be honest. Probably just sand it to key the surface then prep and paint away. Full paint removal sounds like more trouble than it’s worth… unless of course you need to remove the base coats because they are failing to adhere or something

 

[Minibiker]

Not sure I’d remove the paint to be honest. Probably just sand it to key the surface then prep and paint away. Full paint removal sounds like more trouble than it’s worth… unless of course you need to remove the base coats because they are failing to adhere or something

Would this be a case of sanding the whole room? We removed the cabinet he had on the wall and it's revealed, two layers of blue (different shades) and the current colour on top

 

[dholdi]

Are you asking about walls or woodwork ?

 

[Minibiker]

Are you asking about walls or woodwork ?

Off the walls in the bathroom

 

[Participant]

I would either SBR bond then skim it with multifinish, or if walls not flat remove plaster back to brick and board. If you want to do it properly anyway.

Not many situations I'd be removing paint from a wall unless painted wallpaper.

 

[Diggsy]

As above - unless the walls are really poor, I’d honestly just key them, level off the bit that needs levelled, then paint away. No real reason why you can’t paint continually on top, unless the paint below is losing its adherence to the wall, or there is an incompatibility between paint finishes… usually the latter can be resolved with a suitable primer / prep.

 

[Fluke?]

If using a heat gun in a carpeted room make sure you protect the floor.. I found that to my peril when I decided to strip the paint on the door frames in our new-to-us house several years ago. New carpet nicely singed in so many rooms. Yes, I'm a slow learner.... :/

 

[Pooh]

This

"I would either SBR bond then skim it with multifinish, or if walls not flat remove plaster back to brick and board. If you want to do it properly anyway.

Not many situations I'd be removing paint from a wall unless painted wallpaper."

 

[tangey]

Hi all

We moved into my wife's childhood home a couple of months back and we're in the process of decorating room by room, we're getting a new bathroom fitted within the next 2 or 3 weeks but want to get paint of the walls...

Basically the issue is, her dad painted on top of paint about 3 or 4 times and it's gonna be a pain to get of I imagine, Does anyone have any tips as to making it easier to remove please?

Thanks

Isn't it generally accepted that you just paint over paint?

What are you going to do with the walls if/when you strip the paint off ? If its papering or tiling, just do that on the existing walls. Or is it a case that the walls were striped in pieces previously and it's now badly uneven and you are painting on a wall that has various levels of old paint?

If it's uneven paint, I've seen lining paper used to get back to an even surface, and then paint on that.

 

[ristac]

I’d have just lightly sanded them smooth. I’d imagine some of the coats are pretty old when paint used to contain chemicals now not permitted

 

[PlacidCasual]

Heat gun and scraper.
I would have suggested Nitro Mors, but with the nerfed formula they use these days you'd be better off with something stronger like your creepy uncle's Brut aftershave.

Publically available Nitro Mors is as you say useless. Better paint removers are still available they're just not generally available. My wife recently completed a training course which now enables here to buy proper paint removers and during the training she said it was night and day the difference in effectiveness between the products.

@Minibiker If you have a lot of paint removal to do I suggest investing in some training so you can access decent paint strippers. We wasted dozens of hours using heat guns on old wooden shutters and the final outcome was unsatisfactory and dipping doors and the like does long term damage by removing resin from the wood. From where we are now I think my wife and I agree that we wish we'd got the training years ago to save time and effort

 

[tangey]

To summarise

@PlacidCasual 's wife trained to be a stripper in ways not open to the general public and he regrets she didn't do the training years ago.

 

[fez]

Not sure I’d remove the paint to be honest. Probably just sand it to key the surface then prep and paint away. Full paint removal sounds like more trouble than it’s worth… unless of course you need to remove the base coats because they are failing to adhere or something

It always seems like a good idea until you have got far enough into it that you are committed and realise that you are 10% done and its taken 6 hours already.

 

[Diggsy]

It always seems like a good idea until you have got far enough into it that you are committed and realise that you are 10% done and its taken 6 hours already.

This… 100%