And since it keeps temperatures in the 400✯ range, it helps prevent fires and the vaporization of lead paint (which occurs at around 1100✯).
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I’ve used it to strip around 13 layers of paint from old windows in one pass! The infrared heat causes the paint to lose its bond with the wood fairly quickly. The Speedheater isn’t slowed down by multiple layers of paint. Infrared Paint removal may sound like something that is over the head of the average homeowner, but I can assure you, it is not. Caution: Remember to use lead safe work practices with any of these tools! Speedheater All of these are the biggest contenders if you are looking to do some serious paint stripping.
Some work better than others, and their performance often depends on the type and condition of the paint you are removing. Here are the best paint stripping tools I have used over the years.
And much of that paint is lead paint so I have to be extra careful to make sure we keep our dust under control. I got killer bursitis from mine, being too lazy to move the ladder more often.Being in the business of restoring old houses, I do a lot of paint stripping. It's made to be held against siding, but if you are working on a ladder, you need to move it a lot because it's too heavy to hold far out. I've used one of these, and it's pretty effective and likely to last well, though the foam padding on the disk tends to deteriorate. This disk also does not do the underneath edge of siding, but that's not usually such a big deal either to scrape or to leave alone. It does make a dusty mess, though, so I would not recommend it if there's a problem with lead dust and the like. You can fine adjust the depth of cut and the approach angle. It's a heavy tool, and expensive too, but it's made for the job. The disks last a pretty long time and don't clog, and do a good job of removing just about everything. Porter Cable makes another version of the rotary paint remover, this a large disk sander with a metal open coat abrasive disk. If you don't plan to prime as you go, it's better to strip everything. If you scrape only loose paint and leave any, the edges will raise soon unless you prime very quickly. An electric heat gun will get pretty tiresome and nasty hot to handle, but it's nice for things like doors. It does not need to be super hot, but it needs to be controllable. If you have a lot of siding, you need a big flame. I got the best results with a big propane torch powered by a barbecue tank. You will get all the loose paint, and if you prime and paint it right, the job will last. The torch and putty knife are the best way to do it if you have the time and energy and watch out for starting fires. I've done a couple of houses with torch and putty knife, and with high pressure water, or both. I can't remember exactly now but i'd started about 8 or so in the morning and by early evening i had a coat of primer/undercoat on that shed along with some very sore arms + shoulders !! :-) i connected up my my old garage vacuum cleaner (really old hoover wet/dry on it's last legs) and that did a remarkably good job of keeping the mess under control. fortunately there was also a dust port on the left-hand side as well. Only downside was that the belt drive cover on the left meant that i had to run right-to-left so to speak as there was only a dust port on the right-hand side. I will say upfront that i spent an hour or so going over the walls knocking in any proud nails i found and i still managed to miss a dozen or so but the planer blades are double-sided and dirt cheap. Made fast work of cleaning up the siding i can tell you. So i broke out my cheapo bosch power planer, set it to take off something like 0.5 mm and started planing. I tried sanding but it was taking forever to remove all the loose paint and because it was all shiplap it was painful for the hands as the sander started running along the next strip of wood above. lew.Actually i have !! :-) Unfortunately i 'don't have any pictures as this was maybe 8 or 10 years ago before i moved to my current house.īasically the previous house had an old wooden single shed/garage, maybe 10' x 15', that was structurally in pretty good shape but looked like hell, paint was peeling and flaking off.
Have you ever tried that? About one or two passes and the blade is so dull it wouldn't, as they say, cut hot butter.
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