Multiple coats of varnish, oil-based, water-based, lead-based, acrylic, urethane, epoxy, and elastomeric paints are no match for Smart Strip PRO. Smart Strip PROĪ water-based paint removal product that delivers the superior performance professionals require when removing even the most difficult coatings. Removing paint from wood, brick, metal, concrete, stone, plaster, and most fiberglass and plastics does not require caustic, toxic chemicals.
This is an eco-friendly 100% biodegradable, water-based, and odor-free paint stripper that is extremely effective in removing multiple layers of architectural and industrial coatings from virtually all interior and exterior surfaces. Here’s the description of each product from the manufacturer’s website. I tested four products for this post all made by Dumond. The test patches were in a covered area, so the rain wasn’t directly a factor. The weather during the test was in the low 90s during the day and mid 70s at night, with very high humidity and a rain storming during the night. The paint surface was moderately dirty and I setup my test patches under the front porch wall. It had approximately 6-8 layers of paint on the surface, some of which had chipped off in places and you could see bare wood that had only received one layer from the most recent paint job. The siding we were working with was long leaf pine novelty drop siding that was installed in the mid 1880s. All the products we tested are biodegradable and ordinary latex gloves were sufficient. Ordinary nitrile or latex gloves can be dissolved by certain strippers, so you’ll want to use chemical resistant gloves if you aren’t sure. Also, be sure you are wearing safety glasses and chemical resistant gloves.
Put down a drop cloth to keep any drips from damaging the floors or spilling into the dirt. Paint strippers are no joke to mess with, so you always want to be safe when handling them. I documented the process and results below so you can find the right chemical paint stripper for your job.
So, I thought what better time to do yet another test of different products that my readers might find useful. Every coating responds differently to chemical paint stripper and we wanted to find the product that would remove the paint the most effectively before we start work on thousands of square feet of drop siding. So, that means chemical paint strippers because infrared is too slow and hand scraping is too exhausting for a whole building.ĭumond was nice enough to send us one of their test kits that comes with 4 different types of paint stripper so we can find the right product for the job. We are working on an exterior restoration project right now where the client wants to remove all the original paint from the siding and trim.
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