"Ray" wrote in message
news:_1cni.4599$4J4.2964@trndny05...

We have a brick hearth which was speckled with paint droppings many years
ago. I've done everything I can think of to get the drops out -- scraping,
scrubbing, even used paint remover. But nothing works. I think the paint
has
seeped deep into the brick.

Any suggestions welcome.

There are no such suggestions. Brick is so porous
any paint that sticks to it becomes irremovable except
by scraping.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)