Strip A Painted Floor

How to strip hardwood floors.

Strip a painted floor.

If you are looking to deal with a latex paint spill there s good news. The majority of floors were constructed of wood planks from 8 to 18 wide because narrow boards were expensive to prepare in a pre industrial era and therefore reserved for the best rooms. Likewise a floor buffer can get the job done on a larger scale. I actually did a blog about stripping paint off some.

Latex paint is water based. How to remove latex paint from concrete. If the paint spill is still wet use paper towels and shop rags to remove as much paint as possible. When compared to oil based paints latex is far easier to eradicate.

How to remove paint from wood floors with a heat gun. If you think you can paint floors with regular wall paint you re sadly mistaken. And if you re planning a floor to ceiling paint party paint your floors after you paint everything. The house was built in the 1920s so there was about 85 years of paint and varnish on them.

But perhaps the most effective nontoxic option is a soda blaster a tool very much like. Remove paint stripper residue. This little trick of how to strip paint may be just the thing to put a smile on your face. I ve been stripping two old doors from my childhood home.

First consider your supplies. By joe keegan on march 17 2008 at 11 04 pm. It s been hard slog i must say until i recalled this handy hint on how to strip paint. No home restoration would be complete without a little paint stripping.

A large wide paint brush. In early houses every feature had a practical origin and wide board painted wood floors were no exception. Pour the stripping solution on the floor area and smudge it across it. If this is the first time you re stripping a hardwood floor it s best if you start out by testing on a smaller area somewhere in a corner.

Using one of our favorite heat guns is one way to soften paint so you can remove it from your floor. Here s how you should do it. It ll work on both oil based and water based paints and all it takes according to the spot removal guide is to point the heat gun at the paint and at the same time scratch the paint.