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Posted by Susan Thomas on July 29, 2005, 9:53 am
I am replacing wrought iron rails on the carport with aluminum columns.
There is some old paint on the brick that I need to remove. Any suggestions
other than a wire brush?
Thanks for your reply.
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Posted by on July 29, 2005, 8:35 am
I did a bit of research on this a few years back...
If memory serves me right, I think sherwin williams
had a product that was specifically designed to remove
paint off of brick.
Sand blasting, power washing etc is too much of a mess.
It also destroys the brick at the same time.
Using heat (paint heat gun) works too.
Tom
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Posted by SQLit on July 29, 2005, 8:44 am
> I am replacing wrought iron rails on the carport with aluminum columns.
> There is some old paint on the brick that I need to remove. Any
suggestions
> other than a wire brush?
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
graffiti remover might work
Also sold as hair spray. Get the cheap stuff.
Brick is pretty porous and it might take a lot of applications. Not sure if
you will notice a difference in the color of the brick after your done.
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Posted by HotRod on July 29, 2005, 10:42 am
Sand blast...
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Posted by meirman on July 29, 2005, 3:41 pm
In alt.home.repair on Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:42:49 -0400 "HotRod"
>Sand blast...
>
That sounds best. Any idea how much that costs. (I"m not being
sarcastic.)
I was going to say that, depending on the kind of paint and how much,
maybe a razor scraper. I found for brick, the best kind is the cheap
box cutter that is just a thin double fold piece of metal with a
thinner double fold inside that holds the blade. Most sold these days
are only useful as a box cutter, but some had at the opposite end
something that would grip the back of the single edge razor blade.
It only holds it in the middle, and then ends are free to flex, so the
blade doesn't break near as often as the ones that hold the non-sharp
blade edge all the way across.
It worked very well for me to get extra mortar off and if the paint
would chip off in chunks, maybe this blade would get that started, at
surface level, like it did with the mortar.
Meirman
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