Feltwell
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Rather than continuing to drag the "giant sandstone fireplace" thread off topic....
Just though I'd post up results of using Klingstrip to get patchy paint off an Ebay find stone cill - I wanted a suitably weathered cill to replace one that some heathen smashed out of my kitchen, when they wanted the cill to be higher to put a worktop across. They also junked the Victorian arch topped sash and put a crappy softwood casement window in, at some point in the 80's I'd say.
This was the state of patient - this remaining paint was well stuck on, the cill is laying at an angle on it's back here:-
Klingstrip applied:-
And wrapped up in clingfilm:-
Left for 48 hours, then unwrapped, most of the klingstrip taken off with a blunt scraper, the residue then briefly attacked with hot water and a scrubbing brush prior to a final wash off with a pressure washer. The pressure was turned down to minimum for this - the sandstone is soft, the pressure washer can etch into it very easily.
Here's the end result:-
It's done a really good job I think. I suspect the colour will even out a bit when it's dry, no danger of that here today!
Just though I'd post up results of using Klingstrip to get patchy paint off an Ebay find stone cill - I wanted a suitably weathered cill to replace one that some heathen smashed out of my kitchen, when they wanted the cill to be higher to put a worktop across. They also junked the Victorian arch topped sash and put a crappy softwood casement window in, at some point in the 80's I'd say.
This was the state of patient - this remaining paint was well stuck on, the cill is laying at an angle on it's back here:-
Klingstrip applied:-
And wrapped up in clingfilm:-
Left for 48 hours, then unwrapped, most of the klingstrip taken off with a blunt scraper, the residue then briefly attacked with hot water and a scrubbing brush prior to a final wash off with a pressure washer. The pressure was turned down to minimum for this - the sandstone is soft, the pressure washer can etch into it very easily.
Here's the end result:-
It's done a really good job I think. I suspect the colour will even out a bit when it's dry, no danger of that here today!