Help remove paint

[Greg Loya]

I have stripped many feet of wood at my house, but now all
I need to do is remove the little swipes of paint that a
careless painter left on the wood trim in a bedroom.

Have not checked if the finish is shellac or varnish - the
house is 96 yrs old. Ideas would be appreciated.

thanks,

Greg Loya
South Euclid, OH

[Quinton C Tschetter]

In article <31889F...@ct1.ct.picker.com>, Greg Loya
<lo...@ct1.ct.picker.com> wrote:

If he used latex paint, there is a solution available that will remove the
dried paint. Ck for compatability with your finished surfaces in a place
where it won't be seen.

[SMEL...@delphi.com]

For some unknown reason the people who originally had our
house painted just about everything with an oil based paint. We found
this out the hard way when nothing would stick over top of it very
well. A couple of years ago we tried using a primer recommeded for
this type of project but in about a month, the new paint was coming
off of the surface.
Currently I'd like to paint over some brown (ugh!) enamel trim
work inside the house and I assume that it's oil based. Any
recommendations or help greatly appreciated.

Sandy
smel...@delphi.com

[Michel Gagnon]

I have had great success with Zinsser primers. I have used Bulls Eye 1-2-3
in our kitchen and Kover-Stain (I hate that phony spelling) in our
bathroom.
We were recommended Kover-Stain for the bathroom, because it is an oil
base sealant, while the other one is an alkyd latex (brushes are easy to
wash).

In both cases, I had to cover a mixture of old oil paint, old plaster with
peeled off paint, new sheet plaster and wooden baseboards with paint and
varnish on them. After 2.5 and 1.5 years respectively, the paint has
whitstood all abuse without problem, and the only peeled of spot (1 sq cm)
is a place where one of the previous coats of green decided to lift off
from the black previous one -- the house was built in 1908.

For the final coats, we used Pratt and Lambert latex, eggshell finish
(their second-mattest finish), with trim-and-baseboard latex in the
kitchen and alkyd latex in the bathroom.

Unless you have humidity problems (taking showers in the bathroom, for
instance), I prefer the 1-2-3 and trim-and-baseboard (not alkyd) latex
combination. When you apply the primer, the wall looks ugly as if you
really messed it, but the new paint sticks to it with vengence, leaving a
fairly indestructible surface.

Michel Gagnon -- Montréal (Québec, Canada)
mga...@accent.net

[Dana Dawes]

In article <4mjnpq$p...@news2.delphi.com>, SMEL...@delphi.com says...

>
>
> For some unknown reason the people who originally had our
>house painted just about everything with an oil based paint. We found
>this out the hard way when nothing would stick over top of it very
>well. A couple of years ago we tried using a primer recommeded for
>this type of project but in about a month, the new paint was coming
>off of the surface.
> Currently I'd like to paint over some brown (ugh!) enamel trim
>work inside the house and I assume that it's oil based. Any
>recommendations or help greatly appreciated.
>
>
>Sandy
>smel...@delphi.com

>
>

Sandy

Sand it very thoroughly (wet-sand if you want to keep the dust down).
Prime with an oli-based enamel undercoater and finish with enamel of your
choice. MY choice would be more oil/alkyd enamel, because it will look
better for a lot longer.

Dana Dawes
Paintcraft
dda...@moscow.com