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Posted by Lawrence on October 27, 2006, 5:30 pm
Dave wrote:
> We recently purchased a home with a large stone fireplace. The
> fireplace had really large brass framed glass doors. The brass frame
> covered up about 4 inches of the rock all the way around. Before we
> moved into the house, we had the interior painted and a lot of the
> woodwork "refurbished" (e.g. the oak fireplace surround). For whatever
> reason, when they touched up the oak surround, the removed the
> fireplace doors, sprayed on a coat of some kind of clear coat
> (lacquer?) and then put the glass doors back on. My wife hates the
> brass/glass doors thing, so I removed it. The stone behind all of it
> is jet-black with soot. I'm going to buy some stone/brick fireplace
> soot remover/cleaner and try to clean it. My concern is that, since
> there is a coat of a lacquer over soot, I won't be able to get the soot
> off until I get the lacquer off and I don't know if the stone cleaner
> will remove the lacquer. What would I use to remove lacquer from
> stone?
Thanks.
Laquer thinner?
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