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Posted by ransley on April 3, 2008, 6:54 am
> I am removing paint off the woodwork in my 80 year old house.. I tried
> Soygel but it is such a freaking mess, espiecally when I am working on
> the bannister with a curved surface on the handrail.. scraping is a
> real PIA.. and a lot of stuff is left behind which I have to go back
> over and over it seems..
>
> A friend at work told me about using a heatgun and how fast he did his
> window sills in his bathroom.. I went and got a cheap one.. I got it
> home, and wow.. I stripped off two coats of paint off of one side of a
> door frame in no time..
>
> Now the fine print...
>
> I am suspecting I have latex paint over lead paint.. when I work I
> have three fans running, one of which it an exhaust fan in a window..
> they say to use the low setting if suspecting lead paint, but hardly
> works.. The high setting, and I am rolling along.. If I am wearing a
> particle mask/respirator, will I be ok? I HEPA vac when I am done (the
> carpet is going soon anyway)
>
> I am gonna get one of those lead test kits from Lowes.. hell.. if it
> is negative, I will have been worrying for nothing..
whats Soygel, ladies facecream? get a real stripper if you want to use
chemicals, a Marine stripper.
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