Cheap stripper

[MDE]

Some time ago I posted a problem about removing an "artex-type" finish from a lath and plaster ceiling. I'm not sure it was Artex exactly, but it was a stippled plaster finish covered in emulsion paint. Since then I have found a way of getting rid of it using a cheap home-made paint stripper that seems to work well on emulsion.
The new improved recipe is:
Put 7 litres of cold water in a bucket.
Add 170 gms caustic soda and mix thoroughly to dissolve.
Sprinkle in a sachet of solvite heavy duty pink wallpaper paste and mix as per packet.
Use a wallpaper paste brush to apply.
It sticks to the ceiling/wall and the pink colour shows you which bits have been covered.
Leave for about 5 hours then use a stripping knife to remove.
Wash off the residue.

Be very careful using it and wear goggles, rubber gloves, overalls etc. I suspect it would take the hide off a cow, so don't get it on your skin.

 

[Penners]

Oh shucks! From the title of this thread, I thought it was going to be about Gloria, who disrobes to a tuneless rendering of "My Old Man's a Dustman" down at the Frog & Nightgown, every other Friday night.

It's not a pretty sight. :shock:

 

[Gervase]

And I thought it was going to be about the hussy at the Royal Welsh Show, who set the Welsh Black Cattle Society agog with her impromptu pole dance in the cattle shed. :shock:

 

[middi]

I don't see why you are disappointed Penners and Gervase.

The last paragraph in MDE's post is all about " Gloria".

 

[Lynn]

I think Penners and Gervase are talking about free strippers not cheap ones.

Gotta get back to England one of these days....

 

[Penners]

Free??

You obviously haven't seen how much brown ale Gloria can down in one evening.

 

[Gervase]

Gotta get back to England one of these days....

England? This was Wales!

 

[Penners]

Well, say... isn't li'l ol' Wales somewhere in that there Englandshire?

 

[monkey writer]

Hello, I have tried making up a similar paste but using flour instead of wallpaper paste to strip gloss paint from my Gloria. She stunk so much I had to wear a face mask to apply it and the mixture became really quite hot. But that's another side effect of stripping Gloria.

 

[plumbers mate]

>>Well, say... isn't li'l ol' Wales somewhere in that there Englandshire?

Only to Americans and Londoners

 

[danb]

make sure you add the caustic soda to the water and not the other way round !!!

 

[Lime]

make sure you add the caustic soda to the water and not the other way round !!!

And DON'T use any aluminium near it!

 

[Nemesis]

Talking of cheap strippers (well, pole dancer - near enough...) maybe David I will send you one for your birthday, courtesy of:


http://www.happybirthdaytoyou.com/maincard.php?card=rocknroll&image=polegirl&width=400&player=windows&swish=no&partner=&advertising=

 

[Penners]

Yup - that looks like Gloria all right.

The kind of stripper you pay not to take her clothes off.

Unless perhaps the cartoon is modelled on some goddess of divine justice and retribution?

 

[Nemesis]

How could you think that?

I NEVER take my Liberty Bodice off.

Here's something to get you excited though...

http://museums.leics.gov.uk/collections-on-line/BrowseCollection.do?key=68&groupOrCollection=BROWSE_COLLECTION

 

[Penners]

By Jove! Hope the memsahib never catches me ogling that lot!