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[TheForge]

Strippers of Sudbury are very good, we've used lots of their products (especially Klingstrip) and there's nothing they haven't been able to remove if used correctly, even bitumastic paint on cement.

http://www.stripperspaintremovers.com

 

[malcolm]

Strippers of Sudbury will also suggest local contractors if you send them an email. £3k does seem high end for half a gable with a single coat.

 

[a twig]

I've found on our ashlar that Solvistrip et al was great at removing normal paint but would not touch the old lead paint underneath. There's a type of Peelaway that does work on lead, but it was getting expensive to do the two stories, so we've had to resort to mechanical methods (an angle grinder with a large polishing wheel) to get the lead based stuff off.

Obviously health risks so PPE appropriately, and it may not apply in your case with a brick wall, but with Bath stone it just wasn't shifting.

 

[plasticpigeon]

what do you do with the paint dust that gets abraded off???

 

[Penners]

Hopefully the grinder will impart sufficient energy to the dust for it travel into the neighbours' gardens, where they can breathe it in.

:wink:

 

[plasticpigeon]

I've been using peelaway 1, put down dust sheets, collected the majority of paint in plastic bags, and swept up religiously and even vacuumed the garden at the end of the day when stripping my bay window, and I am still paranoid about trampling dust into the house, as inevitable some paint flakes and bits of peelaway go astray! I really hope there are no children around near the angle grinding!!

 

[stevedresden]

Cheers for the tips – I’ve ordered a sample pack of Klingstrip and Solvistrip to see if one or both will do a job.

£3k seems a lot for someone to come and do it quickly with specialist tools. I don’t need it doing quickly. I just need it doing, so if these products work, I can tackle it slowly myself

 

[malcolm]

The DIY option works. I did a wall of mine with a good 6 coats of paint on it. See http://www.the-salutation.co.uk/blog/paint-stripping-from-brick/ A scaffold tower is fine to get up there. Careful with the mess - don't do it on a windy day as the jetwashed paint spray can blow a good 10m and land on your Peugeot (oops). Anything within 5m will get splattered even if there is no wind. I think the pros use a plastic sheet on the scaffolding to contain the mess then wash everything down and tidy up thoroughly. Plastic sheets aren't expensive from Buildbase so worth covering anything you don't want to be painted. Make sure your protective gear is good. If you use a jetwasgher then full waterproofs are essential else you will freeze. A supply of good thick rubber gloves too changed regularly. Tesco do black heavy duty ones for cheap - the stripper will take your skin off if you have a hole in your glove which is painful.

Else if the Klingstrip works then that should be much more containable. Or with just a single coat of paint you might get away with a scrubbing brush with the Solvistrip.

It's not a pleasant job. I did the gable of my barn and I'm leaning towards the idea of having my whole house stripped by someone else. I'm guessing in the region of £10k for the work, but it will sort so many problems and look better too.

 

[a twig]

what do you do with the paint dust that gets abraded off???

what do you do with the paint dust that gets abraded off???

The wall is hosed down before and after, with all the run off soaked up by a hefty pile of absorbent materials (sand, silica etc) which resides on a large plastic sheet at the base of the wall section I'm working on at the time. This is then collected and double bagged before being disposed of appropriately at the local centre. Any topsoil etc that is contaminated (i.e. not completely covered by the sheet) is also treated the same way. Coveralls are then binned, equipment and PPE bagged, and myself thoroughly washed before anything else is done.

Hopefully the grinder will impart sufficient energy to the dust for it travel into the neighbours' gardens, where they can breathe it in.

That would be some form of period property karma, given that the neighbours have just ripped down half of their 250 year old house with original roof, timbers, lathe, stone, windows etc and replaced it with a breeze block cement rendered PVC glazed "extension". But no, appropriate use of a guard on a grinder, and doing the work on a still day keeps good control of the waste.

I really hope there are no children around near the angle grinding!!

Certainly not, and won't be for a few years after all is finished unless my good lady has been keeping secrets!

In all seriousness, removal of lead isn't a laughing matter, and all the work I'm doing follows precisely the guidance given by the handy pamphlet the Council provided for such matters.

 

[Penners]

the neighbours have just ripped down half of their 250 year old house with original roof, timbers, lathe, stone, windows etc

They had a lathe inside their house? :shock:

 

[plasticpigeon]

I have one in mine, a drummond M, doesn't everyone?

 

[Penners]

I have one, too, but I keep it in the garage. A Model N, actually - similar to the M but with an improved turbenocabulator to give smoother grousing on the snib.

 

[plasticpigeon]

I retrofitted a turboencabulator on my tumble reverse system to allow for interactive relative shift in the polarity of the multi wound, inductance driven hyperglide system with rare earth ecomotor boost. I think I'm having problems with the anti babble generator at present. The guys from GEC think that the high frequency multi toroidal inductance loop is out of phase with the superheterodyned diode bridge circuitry but the only way to tell for sure is to measure the lambda and beta values of the main oscillator.

 

[stevedresden]

Got a second quote for professional chemical paint removal and it was £600 - that sounds much more like what I expected, but the fact it's so far removed from the £3k of the first quote does worry me a bit. Maybe it's just a bloke and a bucket of Turps